[RaceBannon]

I am so sick of hearing this has to be an expert nonsense. Any Former Marine, who ever graduated from Boot Camp, can do a head shot with iron sights from 200 yards, this expert nonsense makes me sick. All you have to do is sight in the rifle one weekend and you are on your way.

[Little Bill]

I will take exception to Marine, I think it is a bolt action anyway. One shot and then scoot, the temptation to do a second round with a semi-auto would overpower a nut case.

[COB1]

"I am so sick of hearing this has to be an expert nonsense."

It's amazing how little the general public know about guns and shooting.
We have a Constitutional duty to "keep and bear arms", yet more and more people view guns of all sorts as evil.
Up until a few years ago, I preferred open sights to a scope, and a head shot at two hundred yards would have been no problem.

[Nitro]

Hell man, I gotta agree, when I was a squid we didn't take much if any long range rifle training and yet if I had a Ruger Mini-14 and a week or so I could easily make center-mass shots at 200 yds!!

[xkaydet65]

I'm no expert in riflery so I'll take your word about the skills needed to do a one shot one kill from 200meters. I do remember those kids from Kentucky who shot up the school yard from 100 meters using carbines and scored 25 hits out of 34 shots. But one thing qualifies this shooter as special. He's not range firing. He's killing real people in public places with the world looking for him. That's not some boot from Parris Island. That's a stone killer who knows his job, who practices cover and concealment and evasion and escape while the local cops, who are not all Keystone types, spin their wheels in frustration. Maybe the mechanics of the shot doesn't ID this guy as an expert, but everything else in his package shows he knows exactly what he's doing, how to do it, and how to get away with it. That part of what he's doing is special. You're a Marine Race, could you do what he's done as successfully?

[SamKeck]

Any Former Marine, who ever graduated from Boot Camp, can do a head shot with iron sights from 200 yards, this expert nonsense makes me sick.

Roger that, RB. And I also recall that the "combat sights" for a Marine's weapon were the windage and elevation settings that were fired from the 300-yard-line of the qualification course, but everyone was expected to be proficient with iron sights as far back as the 500-yard-line.