By Hubert Townsend
Since hunting season is closed and the prairie rats are in semi-hibernation, this is an excellent time to improve one’s ability to determine the distance to a target.
In Memoriam - Brent Lantagne
December 1, 2008In Memoriam - Brent Lantagne
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Levels of Marksmanship
November 27, 2008Some words of wisdom from a friendly Highpower shooter. Starting with the lowest skill level and working our way up:
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Military Shooter Defeated by Dummy Rounds (flinch)
November 20, 2008It is day one and a new group of shooters are ready to take the line. Their backgrounds make for impressive resume items and range from battles in big city dark alleys to foreign countries.
Armed with full tacticool regalia, pistol at Sul and a menacing scowl they take the line. First drill: Slow fire groups with dummy rounds mixed in the magazine. On Bullseye targets.
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M16/AR15 Tips
November 13, 2008Here some tips about M16 and AR-15 rifles. These have been proven by the USAR Shooting Team and written about by SFC Hubert Townsend.
Most issue, rack grade M16/M4s are two or three minute of angle (MOA) guns. That means that at 100 yards they shoot a group covering a circle of two or three inches diameter, four to six inches at 200 yards, etc. That is normal but can’t always be assumed. I was once issued a rifle that turned out to be only five MOA and didn’t discover it until shooting a five inch group at 100 yards on a paper target. No wonder I had trouble at the 300 yard line with it!
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USAR Shooter Secures CISM Gold
November 1, 2008Army Reservist Lt. Col. Rhonda L. Bright competed with Team USA comprised of top marksmen from all military branches and won four medals and the coveted title of Best Nation in the World at the Conseil International du Sport Militaire – called CISM – held this year at the Rodberget Shooting Centre in Boden, Sweden.
The first CISM Gold Medal was awarded to USA’s Women’s Rifle Team Sept. 16. With 17 teams competing in the Women’s 50-Meter Sport Rifle Prone Team Match, the Gold Medal went to LTC Bright along with Sgt. Kelly A. Dove and Spc. Nicole M. Cooper of the Army Marksmanship Unit. Bright scored 596 points, Dove shot 593 points and Cooper got a 586.
A perfect score is this event is 600 with top scores between 590 to 595. Competitors fired 60 shots in 1½ hours at a target with a bull’s eye smaller than a dime. Germany took the Silver Medal and Norway the Bronze.
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Army Times: Weapons Training and Qualification Overhauled
October 30, 2008Army Times recently reported about an attempt at improving current Army rifle qualification lead by a new organization staffed by former special operations personnel calling themselves the Asymmetric Warfare Group.
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All Army Matches - Promoting Marksmanship
October 24, 2008The fifth annual All Army matches, hosted at Fort Benning by the Army Marksmanship Unit is now history.
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Anderson Makes it Times Two!
August 9, 2008For the second year in a row a USAR team shooter has won the President’s Hundred Rifle match at Camp Perry under the auspices of the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
USAR Service Rifle team member and SARG instructor SFC Norman Anderson is the 2008 winner of the President’s Rifle match. Pictured here are USAR Service Rifle team members (from left):
SGT Kristoffer Friend (2007 President’s Rifle match winner), SFC Norman Anderson, and SPC Christopher Atkins.
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2008 Summer Olympics
August 9, 2008
Olympic Shooting
The 2008 Olympics are upon us!
Be sure to keep up with the shooting events as they unfold. Just as important, learn more about the International disciplines and the history of the Modern Olympiad. The Olympics were founded by champion marksman Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BCK/SH/40172.shtml
USAR team shooter Keith Sanderson is competing in the Men’s 25 meter Rapid Fire Pistol event.
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/3/221743.shtml
Results and information is available at:
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