The chaos usually started after a Drill "found" something he didnt like. I mean...it could have been anything....like a spec of dust on your bunk or a shirt that was not rolled fold/rolled tight enough....or in one incident because he found a wood tick on a boot lace. Fkn pandemonium......good times
A healthy sense of humor and being able to roll with abrupt changes to your environment and adapting to do your best is REQUIRED for everyone in the Armed Forces of that time. The current day "kinder and gentler" bullshit is gonna send us into the same realm as the dinosaurs while our enemies are building and testing actual fucking Terminators and Slaughterbots. The whole point of the training, right down to the "pandemonium" is actually part of the whole guidebook. The DIs are acting a role, and doing it very convincingly, and the purpose is to snap mofos out of their comfort zones constantly so they do not get complacent. Because complacency is LETHAL on a real battlefield.
Oops, forgot to mention that Manners did say the stocks with no lightening cut were part of their first production run. They added the lightening cut in subsequent runs.
Normally you can get the beam dimensions from the mfg. At 100 yards, take a sheet of cardboard and cut some holes to a bit over the beam size. For example, the Vector IV is 2 mil x 2mil, so cut a 7.5" square opening. if you center the reticle on that, you should range the target beyond it. If you get the cardboard, move the reticle around until you shoot through the hole. Now you know where the beam is in relation to the reticle.
SD's for 3 & 5 shot groups is really meaningless, except. . . . if I see a high SD in that number of shots, like a 15 or worse, along with high an ES greater than 30, I feel pretty sure it's not a good load. So, while a low SD with that number of shots won't tell you whether it's a good load, it can tell you if it's not a good load. If I think I've found a good load with that few shots, I need to confirm with what I'm getting on target with 15 or 20 shots. The best SD don't mean you're going to get the best result on target. I look at SD's as an indicator as to how well/consistent I'm putting together my cartridges, not how well they'll perform on targets.
Webow, Montana has a steak and burger joint that advertises "Burgers, Beer and Bullets". Been there, had a ribeye, drank some sort of localish IPA and bought a hoodie....no effin way was I payin those prices for the ammo.
But when you need it, you need it! I used to tell my Hunters Ed students to pick a cartridge that was relatively comfortable to shoot (practice more) and that you could find at some Mom & Pop store in the back of beyond. Now I just encourage them to get something that they will shoot regularly to become more proficient.
I can’t stand the flavor of the month magnum shooter who bought a couple of boxes of ammo with the rifle and still has a full box or two from the initial purchase
View attachment 8557974Nice Blacktail that made it through the season to spread his genes. He had six does herded up this week. Looks like he has been scraping a bit with other bucks, got a nice cut by his eye.
Yeah, I knew that would trigger some when I wrote it, but we're not talking about shooting high passing dove and duck here, we're talking about shooting people across a room or down a hallway, in which case you aim a shotgun.
