Posted on 02/09/2015 7:50:25 AM PST by w1n1
“I didn’t know what to expect going into my weekend with Nick and the rest of the guys. My sport is different from the type of shooting he does and I wasn’t sure how my skills would translate into his world.”
“It was funny, because Nick and the others seemed impressed by what I’ve done, but I felt like he was the one that accomplished so much. In my eyes, what he has done has impacted things in the real world and has changed lives.”
“There was a mutual respect and appreciation for each other’s craft. I learned a lot about the differences in techniques between the types of shooting we do, and was happy to learn from one of the best.” – the rest of sniper and olympic shooter story here.
She understands the physics. The rest is having good equipment and developing your shooting skills.
The rest of the shooting part, but there is more to being a high level sniper.
Old men, women, and kids can be trained to shoot, but they can’t get themselves and their gear into, and out of, all the places where the shooting needs to be done from.
Agreed. Further, it’s one thing to be able to shoot accurately on a target range and quite another to be able to do so in the chaos of a combat zone.
100%... This effort took four days and three nights, without sleep, of constant inch-by-inch crawling.[18] Hathcock said he was almost stepped on as he lay camouflaged with grass and vegetation in a meadow shortly after sunset.[2] At one point he was nearly bitten by a bamboo viper but had the presence of mind to avoid moving and giving up his position.
I think Carlos Hathcock stole that story from Brian Williams.
heh heh heh...
LOL.
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