Somehow I've never convinced myself to buy a tripod. I imagine I could rationalize it by saying it's too much bother to plan to carrying one, and that I don't often have trouble holding still for my average pictures, but the truth is probably I'm just too cheap for it.

I'm pretty good avoiding jerky motion with a video camera; I guess I just relax enough and can rely on framing the picture so there's a convenient fixed line to use as register. Even on fast-forward I'm guilty of only a slow wave. My slickest move is hiding sliding the camera over by masking it with a zoom out or zoom in, so the real motion's not so obvious.

... Wait a second, target shooting? I'm going to have to start talking to you more respectfully.