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Section 6: Rifles Subject: AR Officer Msg# 920373
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| That's the reason of course, but as a long distance shooter, you know that simply making the target smaller and the distance shorter doesn't equate to shooting a long range. Gone is the need to read the wind, gone is bullet drop at longer ranges and subsequent sight adjustments, mirage is not nearly as much of an issue. Lt. Col. John George, who started shooting at Camp Perry in his late teens, addressed this quite a lot in his book Shots Fired in Anger. He was not at all a fan of using the short ranges and 1000 inch target for qualification. He explained it all in more detail and more eloquently than I ever could with my lack of experience, but he made it clear that this sort of qualification was a sop to convenience and nothing more. And believe me, Col. George was a shooter. | ||||||
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: >>>I never quite understood shooting rifles at barely over 25 yards, though the 1000 inch target was much used across the entire military.<<< Probably the ability to use a convenient place, and have quicker turnover since they would only have 27.7yards for the troops to walk to change targets instead of 100 yards HGW |
