Shooting Skills? I Don't Think So.

[The Night Rider]

I think the solution is to have “leaning trees” installed at every indoor range.

Leaning Trees?

 

[The Night Rider]

I honestly cannot how people can shoot so badly.

Because no one ever taught them the proper way to shoot.

What I'm about to say is not directed specifically to the poster I quoted.

A lot of people in America grew up in homes where there were no guns or I'm not sure how to say this, there were guns but they were de-emphasized maybe is the right word.

I've mentioned this before my grandfather had an old glass fronted gun case with five or six shotguns and rifles in it.

It sat in his basement my entire life until I was 16 or 17 years old and then his son, my uncle, came and got it and moved it to his house.

That was the only time I ever saw those guns come out of the cabinet.

The very first time I fired a gun was at boy scout camp and I was 9 or 10. I remember we had safety training (which is obviously a good thing) but I don't remember any Marksmanship training.

I never had any actual firearms training until I went to BRM during Basic Training and really, those of you who were in the service know this, it wasn't "Marksmanship" training, it was hit the silhouette training

Didn't matter where you hit that thing as long as you hit it, it counted as a hit.

So, my point is that I would bet that 90% of the people carrying guns in America today were never properly taught how to shoot a firearm.

I want to say instead of mocking them we should be teaching them but the real truth is that if you walk up to somebody on firing range and offer to give them pointers are going to tell you to screw off.

 

[Belt Fed]

Leaning Trees?

You just had to been there.

 

[HayesGreener]

You just had to been there.

And sell shot targets!

 

[PieterCoetzee]

Marx said we sow the seeds of our own destruction; so Im OK when some people cant shoot

 

[The Night Rider]

This is another part of my really long story.

When I was assigned to 3rd Battalion 11th field artillery at Fort Lewis we were on orders to go to Saudi Arabia.

Our Battalion Commander was a combat veteran of Vietnam and since we had time he arranged for us to be trained by members of the Army Marksmanship Unit on Fort Lewis (The AMU was where Julie Golob spent the majority of her time in the Army).

Anyway these guys spent three or four days teaching the LEM and our NCOs Proper Marksmanship.

When they were done our NCOs marched us to the rifle range, where they proceeded to Ignore everything we had been taught in the last 4 days and ran us through a qualification.

Not surprisingly most of the unit failed it.

NGL I never qualified expert with an M16 in the army but after that block of instruction I pretty consistently qualified first class where I had been qualifying Marksman previously.

 

[PieterCoetzee]

Army Marksmanship Unit

I used to hang out with some guys from the AMU at Ft Meade. They were good guys and could really shoot; but I never wanted one on any combat patrol....its the difference between Olympic shooting when strapped into a coat with blinders on your shooting glasses at a fixed target at a known range in good light AND the SP4 who just got an Article 15 for pissing off the Company Commander; but still runs through incoming fire to drag the COs butt to cover then shoots the enemy and smiles a huge grin at the CO

 

[NMEDGE]

I was lucky I guess. When I went thru basic they took the time to actually teach us. I have always been ok with a pistol but deadly with a rifle.

 

[Old_Me]

Because no one ever taught them the proper way to shoot.

So, my point is that I would bet that 90% of the people carrying guns in America today were never properly taught how to shoot a firearm.

I want to say instead of mocking them we should be teaching them but the real truth is that if you walk up to somebody on firing range and offer to give them pointers are going to tell you to screw off.

almost any public range, even private ranges and clubs "offer" some sort of training for the asking.....and of course a nominal fee.....many times, its pretty much the men that tell you to f-off, the women are not hung up on the egotistical BS.

many real men take advice, help, suggestions, i know this to be true from the range i go to.

the "fake men", no not any "trans man" think thier poop don't stink, or they just "know it all, cuz thier men"....

in sex ID only, but if they only had a brain, and lost the egotistical attitude.