Re: Shooting

Posted by Billy NY on August 02, 2013 at 06:02:00 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: Shooting posted by GordoSD on August 01, 2013 at 21:33:12:

We had a rifle team, it was a JROTC school, and I do remember the .22 target rifles, photos are in the yearbook. Given I played football, and spring track, I had barely enough time to participate in an extra curricular military activity, which the active duty 38 year old army ranger, with a couple of hash marks on his sleeve, (2 tours in Vietnam) instructed. These guys would be assigned a few years each, then moved on, he started this program and I stayed in it all through high school. You had to march 10 miles in 3 hours to get in. It was a lot more intense than the rifle team, PT and all kinds of other military training, preparing those who will join the military. We did weapons training with the M16A1, with 203 grenade launcher, Colt 1911, and M60 machine gun, and did go to the local ARNG (link below) range nearby, as well as one of the ranges at West Point during summer training exercises. As a freshman we were allowed to qualify with the M16A1. I have old school newspapers in a box somewhere, that have a few interesting photos. The live fire at the ranges was good training and to be honest, fun, 'cept for one friend and I still razz him about it today, he had the selector on full auto, after being implicitly instructed that NO one use full auto, for obvious reasons, at the West Point range, whereas the instructor plucked him from this exercise for a more meaningful task of cleaning weapons, the entire day.

Now, the rifle team uses air guns, and the other drill team, does nothing like what were doing, which was better than any darned video games, we spent a lot of time at the ARNG armory, road marched to any training areas within 20 miles, often times drawing weapons from the armory for training maneuvers, company warfare with the ARNG, ROTC teams, reserve Marines, whatever the instructor could line up.

Back to the subject, this is where I gained my affinity for an M14 rifle, hence my M1A, and I do recall, the CMP in those days where you could get a garand very inexpensive and it was possible to get an M1D garand, not sure about the NM models though. I forget about the M1 carbine, can't believe what these cost today, but an NM M1A would be awesome, I did, years back, used to compete in the DCMP at the local range with both my M1A and the Garand, I enjoyed these activities quite a bit and always did very well, likely from those early years of training.

I may be a putz now with this 783 Marlin I've been fooling with and posted about, LOL and I did not like the school I attended and graduated from, I did like the rifle team, and the Ranger team which I belonged to, we sure did learn an awful lot from these Army veterans, its sad the way it is now though.

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