[MindBender26]

>Thank you, all you Southern and Texas boys, for learning to shoot so well from your dads and grampas. We are raising another generation to follow you.


Interesting think about the best shots in RVN. I don't mean the bullet sprayers, but the real shooters.

The best were those "early shooters" from the South and West, especially those with real world hunting and firing range experience as opposed to just range experience.

The second excellent group where the kids with absolutely no weapons experience. They had no bad habits to unlearn. Saw a number of trainees who had never held a weapon before (literally never even having touched a firearm before) shoot 60/60 on the qual course, then go on to do very well at Advanced Marksmanship school.

One was a Boston rabbi's son who had been taught that weapons were an abomination. Ended up a great LRRPer. Routinely killed at 600+ meters on Nui ba Den. Could have shot further, but no way to see beyond that range in that area of III Corps.

[OldCorps]

Routinely killed at 600+ meters on Nui ba Den. Could have shot further, but no way to see beyond that range in that area of III Corps.

what kind of weapon did he use?

[radiohead]

Ended up a great LRRP

Hi. My late husband was in Nam. I remember him saying he was a LRRP, but I don't remember what LRRP stands for. Can you tell me? I'd like to remind our son what his father did.

My husband was a small town boy from the Midwest who had been shooting since he was 11 or 12. He said he ranked very high in his shooting tests.

[gitmo]

Theodore Roosevelt:

"The great body of our citizens shoot less as time goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power.

Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world...

The first step in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come is to teach men to shoot."