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wtf is with the gatekeeping?
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Is it possible to become a really skilled long range shooter with a semi-auto?
- By LRRPF52
- Semi-Automatic Rifles
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For Sniper Sustainment training, it was an even more relaxed atmosphere, but more stress mentally and technically, since you’re having to solve trajectory and wind deflection problems and want to connect, while also practicing shooter-spotter dialog and Team SOPs. Here’s an example of Sniper Sustainment Training when I was on the DMZ in Korea with 1/506th Scouts:
wtf is with the gatekeeping?
- By XP1K
- The Bear Pit
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Wow. Asked and answered multiple times.In case anyone was wondering, this was the cause of this faggotry.
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Win an RIX Storm S3 Thermal Imaging Scope!
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- The Bear Pit
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Reviewing the basics prior to going hot...
...and another shooter hooked
...and another shooter hooked
Is it possible to become a really skilled long range shooter with a semi-auto?
- By LRRPF52
- Semi-Automatic Rifles
- 72 Replies
The first time I got true quality shoot time was in my first Recon Platoon.
There were only 18 of us at full-strength in the MTO&E, and we didn’t have a PL, plus a bunch of guys were at Sniper School, Ranger School, Pathfinder, BNCOC, etc. So there were really only maybe 12 of us at the most at the range. No Battalion or Company people even on the post we were at, so we were allowed to drive our own BRM, zero ranges, and qual on our time. It was amazing.
I was a gun guy since I could walk and “already knew how to shoot”, but I still bit my tongue when one of our more seasoned Snipers coached me through zeroing and qual. He had very good feedback to give to me, which fine-tuned my fundamentals and was a great experience. It was the first time in the Army I truly got one-on-one mentorship in marksmanship without the rush of a company-sized abortion, with idiots yelling and screaming all over, ruining the experience.
From that moment-on, any time I went to a range, I was basically like the guy from office space whose therapist died in the middle of his hypnosis and left him in a state of permanent zen.
99.9% of Infantry soldiers never get that experience. It’s nothing but yelling, dudes with engineer tape wrapped around their helmets smashing cleaning rods into your bolt face to rod you on the range, more senior NCOs yelling on the loudspeaker, “RANGE WALK, RANGE WALK!!!!” Privates hustling to get in line and wait to draw their handful of ammo from the ammo shack, range-walk to their shooting position, SP4 Mafia murmuring about the BS, E-5s yelling and screaming.
I would just speed-walk but ignore basically everything I was hearing, and go out of my way to get back in line to qualify over and over again when I ended up back in the line at different stages of my time in the Army.
But in Recon Platoons and LRSC, we didn’t play the silly games. We focused on...you know, marksmanship. We got a lot more ammo and pyro too.
I would shoot on weekends a lot though, with my 11.5” ARs, and later my M4forgeries in the 1990s-early 2000s. Then I got into 3-Gun. Formal, structured private shoot training and competition was a lot better than what we did in the Army.
There were only 18 of us at full-strength in the MTO&E, and we didn’t have a PL, plus a bunch of guys were at Sniper School, Ranger School, Pathfinder, BNCOC, etc. So there were really only maybe 12 of us at the most at the range. No Battalion or Company people even on the post we were at, so we were allowed to drive our own BRM, zero ranges, and qual on our time. It was amazing.
I was a gun guy since I could walk and “already knew how to shoot”, but I still bit my tongue when one of our more seasoned Snipers coached me through zeroing and qual. He had very good feedback to give to me, which fine-tuned my fundamentals and was a great experience. It was the first time in the Army I truly got one-on-one mentorship in marksmanship without the rush of a company-sized abortion, with idiots yelling and screaming all over, ruining the experience.
From that moment-on, any time I went to a range, I was basically like the guy from office space whose therapist died in the middle of his hypnosis and left him in a state of permanent zen.
99.9% of Infantry soldiers never get that experience. It’s nothing but yelling, dudes with engineer tape wrapped around their helmets smashing cleaning rods into your bolt face to rod you on the range, more senior NCOs yelling on the loudspeaker, “RANGE WALK, RANGE WALK!!!!” Privates hustling to get in line and wait to draw their handful of ammo from the ammo shack, range-walk to their shooting position, SP4 Mafia murmuring about the BS, E-5s yelling and screaming.
I would just speed-walk but ignore basically everything I was hearing, and go out of my way to get back in line to qualify over and over again when I ended up back in the line at different stages of my time in the Army.
But in Recon Platoons and LRSC, we didn’t play the silly games. We focused on...you know, marksmanship. We got a lot more ammo and pyro too.
I would shoot on weekends a lot though, with my 11.5” ARs, and later my M4forgeries in the 1990s-early 2000s. Then I got into 3-Gun. Formal, structured private shoot training and competition was a lot better than what we did in the Army.
Can't get scope to zero low enough with 20MOA rail
- Observation & Sighting Devices
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There is so much confusion in this thread.
First, OP says the scope is "Leupold MK4HD 4.5-18x52 MOA #183624." That last number - the part number - shows on the Leupold website as having mils turrets:
So which is it? MOA or mils?
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Then, in post 10, OP says "So looking at the scope's specs on the Leupold website, it states this model has 1 MOA clicks, with 40 MOA adjustment in each direction..."
No. Those figures are for the reticle subtensions - NOT adjustment - IF this is an MOA scope (clarify part number). From the web site:
This means (to me; I've never owned a Leupold scope but I've used several zero stop mechanisms) ya gotta work with the zero stop mechanism. From the manual:
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I hope this is useful. I grew up in the era of simplex reticles in capped turrets on a one-inch tube and 12x magnification was a lot. Modern scopes have so much more capability, but they can trip up newbies.
Good luck OP.
First, OP says the scope is "Leupold MK4HD 4.5-18x52 MOA #183624." That last number - the part number - shows on the Leupold website as having mils turrets:
So which is it? MOA or mils?
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Then, in post 10, OP says "So looking at the scope's specs on the Leupold website, it states this model has 1 MOA clicks, with 40 MOA adjustment in each direction..."
No. Those figures are for the reticle subtensions - NOT adjustment - IF this is an MOA scope (clarify part number). From the web site:
- 1 MOA increments
- 40 MOA of measurement in each direction (You use the reticle subtensions like a ruler; one does NOT use linear measurements in this game, one uses angular measurement).
This means (to me; I've never owned a Leupold scope but I've used several zero stop mechanisms) ya gotta work with the zero stop mechanism. From the manual:
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I hope this is useful. I grew up in the era of simplex reticles in capped turrets on a one-inch tube and 12x magnification was a lot. Modern scopes have so much more capability, but they can trip up newbies.
Good luck OP.
