Hello!
I’m a dude with a machine shop. I’ve been in the army national guard for eight years. When I went to basic, my first qual was a 17/40, and I finagled 23/40 after several tries. After OCS, I started practicing for CMP GSMM where consistency and fundamentals finally sank in. My next qual was a 40/40.
The engineers are not known for their marksmanship, so I thought it was a hot stuff qualifying expert. I very recently participated in my state TAG match and found out how insignificant 40/40 is. We did a record qual on paper targets, and even though I hit 37 targets, my score was 150/200. The Soldier I scored, someone I served with on COVID response, achieved 195/200, and he thought he wasn’t all that good.
I’m always fascinated by how much I just don’t know about a subject; marksmanship is near and dear. I found snipers hide when looking for actual resources to tackle the surplus of useless opinions which must be vetted to become smarter. In my library, I have “Hatcher’s notebook,” both volumes of “The Bolt Action,” a few oddball gunsmithing books, and a few thousand dollars worth of tool and die books. Metrology goes hand in hand with marksmanship to the point that I can find specific examples of rifle components which if they had been toleranced correctly would have made a better shot.
My goal here is to learn more about marksmanship. I don’t have much to prove to myself, but I want to be teaching the right thing and have good source material for the occasional “good question.” On the shop side of things, I’m not an FFL, but making non FFL firearms parts is an occasional demand. The more I know about marksmanship as a whole, the better such products will be.
Anyways, I don’t actually own a lot of guns. I trade each time; always up and leaving a lot of empty space in an already small cabinet. I did own a sporterized M1903, but traded it for an AR which I eventually fitted into a National Match grade gun.
I’m a dude with a machine shop. I’ve been in the army national guard for eight years. When I went to basic, my first qual was a 17/40, and I finagled 23/40 after several tries. After OCS, I started practicing for CMP GSMM where consistency and fundamentals finally sank in. My next qual was a 40/40.
The engineers are not known for their marksmanship, so I thought it was a hot stuff qualifying expert. I very recently participated in my state TAG match and found out how insignificant 40/40 is. We did a record qual on paper targets, and even though I hit 37 targets, my score was 150/200. The Soldier I scored, someone I served with on COVID response, achieved 195/200, and he thought he wasn’t all that good.
I’m always fascinated by how much I just don’t know about a subject; marksmanship is near and dear. I found snipers hide when looking for actual resources to tackle the surplus of useless opinions which must be vetted to become smarter. In my library, I have “Hatcher’s notebook,” both volumes of “The Bolt Action,” a few oddball gunsmithing books, and a few thousand dollars worth of tool and die books. Metrology goes hand in hand with marksmanship to the point that I can find specific examples of rifle components which if they had been toleranced correctly would have made a better shot.
My goal here is to learn more about marksmanship. I don’t have much to prove to myself, but I want to be teaching the right thing and have good source material for the occasional “good question.” On the shop side of things, I’m not an FFL, but making non FFL firearms parts is an occasional demand. The more I know about marksmanship as a whole, the better such products will be.
Anyways, I don’t actually own a lot of guns. I trade each time; always up and leaving a lot of empty space in an already small cabinet. I did own a sporterized M1903, but traded it for an AR which I eventually fitted into a National Match grade gun.
