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Section 9: Military Weapons Subject: M1 Carbine Msg# 1053805
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My D.I. let me rummage through several to find one with a decent bore as I told him I could shoot "expert" having been shooting since age 8 when I got my first rifle (bolt action, clip fed Mossberg with a peep sight)
He bet me a week's KP against no KP if I qualified as expert. The course of fire was 50 rounds, 10 prone, 10 sitting, 10 off hand, 10 kneeling and 10 rapid fire. Smart ass that I was I fired all 50 rounds standing off hand and qualified as expert. My D.I., an old Army Air Force guy said I must have gotten into the wrong line, I should have gone Army. I told him I was allergic to sleeping on the ground and eating food out of a can older than me! Once I got to my permanent station, a SAC outfit, my First Shirt noticed my score and assigned me the additional duty of qualifying for the majority of the guys in the squadron who couldn't qualify if you gave them the target and a pencil to punch holes. Needless to say I spent a lot of time on the range having fun and ducking dirty details. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: We had the M16 (not A1 or A2) by the time I joined, but when I went to the DoJ/Bureau of Prisons Academy we used some pretty rattletrap M1 Carbines, as most of federal prisons still used them in those days. Penitentiaries like mine used M14s but we had to qualify with these M1 Carbines. The bores were't terrible, though you had to be on your game to keep them functioning during practice and qualification with them. It threw off many of those who were not gun people. The gun would stumble and they would stop and throw up their hand for a range officer. I'd just fix the problem and keep going. I shot expert with the M1 Carbine there. |
