Most shooters argue the merits of their gun over another.
If your life is to depend on your weapon,as long as it fires a sufficent caliber to stop a man,is reliable without fail,then the rest is up to the gunner get to know your weapon,love your weapon,keep it clean,lubed,and practise,practise,practise.
Shoot at close quarters.Shoot at medium range.Shoot at long range.Shoot from weakside.Shoot standing,kneeling,sitting,prone,from under cover,over cover,around cover.
Having played woods paint ball I do know there is rarely a perfect shot,always something in your way.
If your area of ops include wooded or semi wooded areas dig and camoflague hidey holes,spider holes,whatever you want to call em measure off ranges and shoot from em.
Years ago when 45-70 was the round,old time marksman shot at ranges today being shot only with high powered magnum rounds,it is the shooter as much as anything.
If they could hit targets at almost 1000yds with iron sights and a round whose trajectory looked like a rainbow with modern flat shooting rounds all we need is massive amounts of practise.
What do you think? Right on or not?
11 years ago
Good Morning China.
ReplyDeleteYour point here is spot on ! The modern civilian should be familiar with his/her weapon. You need to train with your main weapon or, train with all your weapons.
I routinely tear my rifles and pistols down no less then once per month. Thankfully the MINI-14 is really simple to break down and put back together as are most of my handguns .
I try to get out shooting as often as possible and if you remember, I recently went out for 5 days and practiced field ops in the snow .
Target practice is great but, you should try shooting while moving , hit the deck and fire , firing while rolling for cover etc.
Once you find it comfortable to do these types of exercises, find your weapons' range . Use iron sights if possible and start by pacing off 100 long steps then 200, 300 , 400 , 500 and beyond if you feel the need .
Your average operable range for targets in a combat situation is between 50 meters and 200 meters .This is the range you want to get comfortable with .
Yes you will have targets out further then this and it is advisable to, as I said before , get your weapons range out to 500 meters. Really , if you are shooting anything less then as .30 cal. for your assault rifle , you are not going to be concentrating on anything beyond a maximum of 500 meters.
Hitting a target at 500 meters is not an easy task, just try it and see for yourself .A 5gallon bucket is the size of an average mans' kill zone which is 18inch by 18 inch in a square .
Fill a 5 gallon bucket with water and food coloring, put the lid on it and pace 500 meters off . Set and use this for your target. It's great if you have a friend who can spot your rounds down range for you .
If you can become proficient at this range then anything short of this will be a breeze. Bear in mind that in a case of combat , you will be taking fire and under extreme duress .
That changes everything as you will see once it happens .
I'll go more into the mental preps later on, this will be the most difficult of all of the tasks to prepare for a firefight. I am heading out to look at a new rifle so, I'll catch up with you all later .
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Mornin 3%.Yes I am sure you are right.I have range shootin pretty well down pat.Now with bullets comin at me Well thats a whole new subject.
ReplyDeleteI have a new rifle to become acquainted with now . I went up and fired it the other day and I am going to need some serious work with this thing . It is a GRIZZLY .50 BMG , single shot, the entire ass end of the rifle is the bolt !
ReplyDeleteIt cost $3.00 per round for this beast so , I will be doing sight in at distance only or I'll go broke in 2 trips. It came with a 4x18 x50mm UNERTL scope ,which is ancient military spec.
Anyways, I will let you guys know how it goes as I progress with this new animal . It kicks so hard , it threw me across 3 feet of ice/snow pack in prone position ! I have to get the hang of this thing .
I was firing 661 grain rounds and I am going to tool up to reload so I can put some 700 grain rounds in it . Anyways , my back is out a bit today so I am gonna go ice and take a pill .
Getting old sucks...........
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Damn yeah that's some serious fire power.Sat nite history chan had sniper show on showing 1 mile kill and new record 1 1/2 mile kill.Them boy's are good.And yeah I feel ya it does.I check later Thanks
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