Ho'ing says "I'm not very good at acm, I'm lazy, and I'm not going to try to improve myself...I'd rather play Russian roulette with a half-filled revolver"
It's a great way to get a kill or 2, but never more than that, and there's a whole other world of flying knowledge which one tosses out with the bath water when he points his plane at the oncoming dot and blasts away...that's what you don't get. It's akin to lazy European generals in the 1700's having thousands of young boys plow into each other head-on, until the piles of dead bodies impeded battle