Posted on 12/31/2005 3:04:24 PM PST by Flavius
Instinctively allowing for wind speed and bullet drop, Shadow's commander aimed 12 feet high.
Uh, toby, it's called training.
If he didn't know what his bullet was going to do,
he shouldn't have been out there, ie; he knew how many
clicks to come up, and how many over for the wind and
how to tell what the distance was, he didn't look and say
mmmmmm ah guess it's about 1232 yards.
Bahh writers.
Damn! That's a long ways for a .308.
I love my .308 but am happy with a saucer sized 20 round (peepsight) group at 100 yds.
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I bet those words make liberals just start to vibrate.
Good shooting and keep it up!
LVM
You need the AQT, those 20 rounds should all be within
four inches at 100 yds, one inch at 25 yds.
Not that I can do that you understand, but I'm working
on it.
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This is not really on-topic but after seeing this picture I just have to say I really hate this whole backwards-American-flag-patch thing. I understand the reasoning for facing the flag backwards when it's on the right shoulder (though I still don't really like it and think it looks silly. A soldier is not always moving briskly forward anyway, making the backwards flag make sense in the convoluted "that's the way it would be blowing if it was a real flag" kinda way. Sometimes he's just standing still. And when I see pictures of Iraqi kids looking at that backwards flag on a soldier's shoulder it just rubs me the wrong way. Is a whole generation in another country going to think that's what our flag looks like?) and it's things like this that bring home why. Once you manufacture all those backwards flags they'll be backwards wherever they're placed, even when velcroed on the front of the vest as this one is.
I guess I just don't like seeing a backwards flag. It just strikes me wrong. Our flag is so beautiful as it is.
[saquin getting off soapbox]
(One more thing... aren't snipers supposed to be kept kinda anonymous?)
thanks for that info
I agree. There are something like 400,000 veterans currently receiving disability payments for "Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome" at a cost of over four billion dollars to the tax payers. The number of veterans applying for this has quadrupled in the last few years. I don't mean to denigrate anyone's service.....but I don't recall anyone from my father's generation belly-aching to the point where they were unable to hold a job.
Did anyone else also notice that this "insurgent" who had just killed an American soldier was headquarted in a HOSPITAL. I don't want to hear anymore crying from liberals that the big bad U.S. military is targeting peaceful hospitals and ambulances. This is the kind of s**t that has been going on for 3 years now, with the terrorists using hospitals, ambulances, etc.
Obviously, this writer has learned his craft. It is not something we are accustomed to when reading the drivel printed in US papers.
Not new. In 1937 I saw a movie called "They Gave Him a Gun" starring Spencer Tracy and Franchot Tone. Two World War 1 soldiers had distinctly different reactions to their weaponry after discharge, with one shootin' up the place.
I was young but recognized propaganda when I saw it. Besides that, everyone I knew in Southwest Oklahoma had pistols or rifles and knew how to use them.
The photo gives far too much info for my comfort zone. I can't imagine the U.S. military wanting that out but who knows.
truer words were never spoken...there should have been an amen at the end of them
You gotta survive to have PTSD....:)
Fortuna was with him that day.
Is that an M4 with suppressor he is holding? He must do some in close work,night infiltration type engagements.Pretty scary job,hope they stay safe.
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