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The ‘deadliest’ Marine on Parris Island reveals the secrets to his record-setting shooting
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Posted on 12/18/2020 11:49:14 AM PST by AggregateThreat
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To: AggregateThreat
Iron sights. Just sayin’.
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posted on
12/18/2020 11:51:07 AM PST
by
larrytown
To: AggregateThreat
Sounds like a future Sniper. Go Marine and remember your Oath to the Constitution, whether foreign or domestic enemies.
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posted on
12/18/2020 11:57:28 AM PST
by
A Navy Vet
(I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated )
To: larrytown
When you consider the numbers of those who came before him this is still very impressive. A little luck was needed, but that is God-given skill.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:00:22 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
To: larrytown
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:01:17 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: AggregateThreat
And one thing Marine...rest assured that traitor Biden will not be your CIC.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:02:46 PM PST
by
albie
To: larrytown
He did it with a 4X combat scope.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:06:55 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: larrytown
I shot 222 with iron sights and a saved round, which is barely expert. I read that the new optics have raised the average score by 5%. In the article it mentions that the guy’s platoon average score was 235. I think they are revamping the entire method of qualification also.
To: larrytown
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:10:12 PM PST
by
Garvin
(The spread of communism anywhere, threatens freedom everywhere. ~ Ronald Reagan)
To: AggregateThreat
Shooting an M16A4 rifle equipped with a 4X, fixed-power rifle combat optic
Good on him.
I qualified Expert 4 times in 3 years with an M-14 in the late '60s.
Vaguely remember my scores were high 220s.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:13:00 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: larrytown
Iron sights. Just sayin’.<<<
lol...speaking of Iron sights..that kinda brings up a sore spot with me....Back in ‘66 When the Army still qualified with the M-14 I was about to win my Basic Training Units Marksmanship Trophy when a Generals son that happened to be on sick call the day of testing went out the next day with 1 NCO and beat me by 1 point....He claimed he won because he'd shot a gun once with a scope...
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:18:52 PM PST
by
M-cubed
(The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
To: AggregateThreat
ACOG! (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight)
It’s mounted on an old style A2 with fixed butt stock. Don’t need magpul telescoping butt stocks or picatinny forearm to mount all that wannabe tac-ops junk.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:22:12 PM PST
by
nonsporting
("Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." Philippians 1:20b)
To: oh8eleven
if you’re like me, you probably now need readers to qualify.
To: larrytown
I fired 241 with an M-14 with iron sights on pre-qual day at Parris Island in Feb 1968.
Qual Day we had a snowstorm. Blew snowflakes the size of quarters off my rear sights. Fired a 213 - bah humbug!
241 would have been the Recruit Range Record. Of course, I’d probably ended up a Sniper and got myself killed, instead of something nice and safe like being an 81 mortars FO/ Radio operator....
:-)
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:23:11 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: oh8eleven
I shot 240 iron sites and they let me train as a primary marksmanship instructor (never taught anyone) and after training I got to shoot with Match M1s in a tournament.
The match M1s final distance on a round target (prone) was 600 yards, iron only. I didn’t place or anything but it was a good distraction on Okinawa.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:23:48 PM PST
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: oh8eleven
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:25:10 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(The ability to read auto correct is necessary to read my posts understanding them is another matter.)
To: BushCountry
Ha, ha, I did hold the recruit battalion record of 132 sit-ups in two minutes. Other than that, I wasn’t the greatest recruit.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:26:51 PM PST
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: AggregateThreat
Reader? I almost need braille!
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:28:29 PM PST
by
Karliner
(Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
To: albie
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:34:06 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: BushCountry
I got to shoot with Match M1s
Loved the M1. A lot of bark, but little bite.
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posted on
12/18/2020 12:55:36 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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