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I see reference to Walts cropping up from time to time on here.

What is a walt?

A Walter Mitty , reference usually when someone is claiming fantastic long range shots or service in HM forces - usually claiming to be "in the paras " -- Hmmmm.

Thanks.

Thurber could write a canny short story.

Anyone wearing a puffer jacket, sunglasses and stonewashed jeans in a Hereford pub in the 80's/90s.

A good explanation here if you wanted anything more... http://waltermittyhunt.com/

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On this website I see it as being someone who is still on probation with their rifle club, perhaps doesn't even have an fac yet, has less than even a single years experience, but still has racked up hundreds of posts on here, and dispenses advice with an implied level of credability to which they are not entitled.

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DL. wrote:On this website I see it as being someone who is still on probation with their rifle club, perhaps doesn't even have an fac yet, has less than even a single years experience, but still has racked up hundreds of posts on here, and dispenses advice with an implied level of credability to which they are not entitled.

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That depends if they're claiming the advice as their own information or something they've gathered. Most new shooters will do much more research than the old boys and actually be more factually correct, instead of spouting the same diatribe they've carried for years.
Inexperience doesn't necessarily mean the facts are less good. Experience doesn't mean you know what you're on about. zzzzom

dromia wrote:I see reference to Walts cropping up from time to time on here.

What is a walt?

People who own military rifles because they 'like the look/history/stopping power/muzzle brake/milspec anodising



....but never ever shoot in competitions.

Damn you found me.

Individual wrote:People who own military rifles because they 'like the look/history/stopping power/muzzle brake/milspec anodising

....but never ever shoot in competitions.