Re: Xtreme Sniper Match...Xtreme Disappointment
This was an email sent to Timberwolf...he posted this on Cal Guns so I figure I would post it here as well...talk about an asshole.
Notice all the references to Sniper School and what not.
Bill,
You guys should put together a group of 20 volunteers
and do your own tournament as someone suggested.
Of course, none of these guys can participate because
because that would be a conflict of interest. So, who
will be shooting at your competition?
With that kind of participation, you could place all of
your targets out in the boonies and have people camp
out and keep them from getting stolen.
There were about 16 shooters. 8 or so of them, that
I had trained, understood the value of focusing on the
basics, accepted responsibility for choice of a bad shooting
position if they did this, and really liked the competition.
And, then there was your group. You guys seem to like
a "game", because you all didn't seem to care that your
shooting fell far short of what it should have been if you
were all as good as you say. You did think that humping
was important (it isn't), I should have supplied sandwiches
and drinks (maybe a massage and a hand job would also
have made the competition more popular, and a big prize bank.
Your group did also not seem to recognize that the challenge coins
I provided are exactly what most of the real "community" uses to identify
the insiders.
Like I said, anything can be improved, I am constantly working
to improve, and I have hundreds of notes about things that I will change.
Hard to prevent downtime under those conditions. I shot a 1000 yard match
at Desert Marksman. You should 40 rounds over an 8 hour period.
You pulled targets for 4 hours, had a lunch break of 1 hour, spotted for
two hours, shot for about 2 hours. I have a detailed schedule and
your actual shooting was about 2 hours in my competition. And, real
snipers might have to sit for 2 days to get a shot. Patience is part of
the virtue of a real sniper. I can remember waiting all day for a shot
at the Sniper School. And, I couldn't move once I set up the shot because
there were guys looking for me.
The point is that there are plenty of people who will
like the kind of competition that I have constructed since
they know that everything depends on their own skills.
Regardless of what you guys want to think, I am far
more experienced than most of your guys. And, I plan
to go my own way. I've done my whole like like that and
don't plan to stop at this age.
Bill Skiles starts teaching for me again next year. He is
currently NCOIC of Marksmanship for the Marines -- including
the Camp Perry matches and the Sniper Shools. He is
really picky about who he trains for, and he has done
many classes for me because he respects me and trained me.
I won't bother informing you guys. Obviously, you guys don't
need any training because you know it all.
Best of luck to you and your group.
I went ahead and removed all of you from my e-mail list.
Bruce"
