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I am Legend. And it was all luck. So please don't think I have any skill at all. But at a small shooting range...I am Legend. I have shot a rifle exactly one time since I left the Army. Once. And it was the luckiest shot ...ever.
So here is the story of the Shot heard round the bar.
One of my buddies invited me to his local gun range - way back in the 80's. It has been closed now for a long time. But back then it was still doing well. It had an indoor pistol range...and you all know my history on that...so just watched him hit center mass on paper targets.
Outside they had a rifle range. And that had a bunch of Steel Chickens as targets, and also Silhouettes with paper targets on them. My Buddy knew I almost joined the Army Rifle Team after being noticed at AIT. Never went. Never made the Team.
So he had apparently told some of the local shooters that I was really a good shot. I tried to tell them differently. But he had talked me up so big...that they wanted me to shoot.
You could shoot from several positions. But I told them I was much better at "Quick reaction" Rifle shooting. So if I was walking and they yelled out: "Shoot" I could acquire the target and hit it , pretty quickly. And then, the Legend was born.
They gave me a modified AR 15. But I did not know the guy had made it a "hair trigger" Rifle. The lightest touch, and that thing sent a round down range. I didn't even Zero the weapon. I told him there was no need to Zero or have a practice shot, as the chickens were only 100 meters away. They all laughed.
So I took the rifle, started walking the line.
They yelled: "Chicken!"
I turned and fired in one motion. Luckily my back was to everyone...because that trigger went off before I was ready. They didn't see the look of surprise on my face. What they saw...and heard was:
"Chicken! Bang! Clink"
Yep. I hit the chicken. It looked like (to them) like it was instantaneous. There were all kinds of bewildered shocked compliments hurled at me. My buddy smirked and told everyone: "I told you so."
I handed the Rifle back to the guy ...I couldn't help it. I said:
"Nice trigger but it shoots high."
And I never shot again.
I am Legend.
So here is the story of the Shot heard round the bar.
One of my buddies invited me to his local gun range - way back in the 80's. It has been closed now for a long time. But back then it was still doing well. It had an indoor pistol range...and you all know my history on that...so just watched him hit center mass on paper targets.
Outside they had a rifle range. And that had a bunch of Steel Chickens as targets, and also Silhouettes with paper targets on them. My Buddy knew I almost joined the Army Rifle Team after being noticed at AIT. Never went. Never made the Team.
So he had apparently told some of the local shooters that I was really a good shot. I tried to tell them differently. But he had talked me up so big...that they wanted me to shoot.
You could shoot from several positions. But I told them I was much better at "Quick reaction" Rifle shooting. So if I was walking and they yelled out: "Shoot" I could acquire the target and hit it , pretty quickly. And then, the Legend was born.
They gave me a modified AR 15. But I did not know the guy had made it a "hair trigger" Rifle. The lightest touch, and that thing sent a round down range. I didn't even Zero the weapon. I told him there was no need to Zero or have a practice shot, as the chickens were only 100 meters away. They all laughed.
So I took the rifle, started walking the line.
They yelled: "Chicken!"
I turned and fired in one motion. Luckily my back was to everyone...because that trigger went off before I was ready. They didn't see the look of surprise on my face. What they saw...and heard was:
"Chicken! Bang! Clink"
Yep. I hit the chicken. It looked like (to them) like it was instantaneous. There were all kinds of bewildered shocked compliments hurled at me. My buddy smirked and told everyone: "I told you so."
I handed the Rifle back to the guy ...I couldn't help it. I said:
"Nice trigger but it shoots high."
And I never shot again.
I am Legend.
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Yup. Retire when you're at the top.
It takes 3 (or is it 4?) strikes on a truck target to register a kill on a tank range. I almost immediately had a misfire on a truck about a mile away on Tank Table VIII (crew qualification). As I'm popping out of my hatch, yelling "misfire, misfire, misfire" (to stop the clock), the tower is announcing "target," meaning a kill. Since I didn't need to fire the .50 again, I left it alone. Afterwards, I counted the unexpended ammo. 43 rounds. I was on target as I fired, no need to walk the rounds on.
Same day, long range main gun target (2400m, IIRC) at night while my tank is on the move. My gunner misses. My loader is shit hot with the next round, and I announce "from my position" and nail it in time to get full score for the engagement.
I never fired TTVIII again.
It takes 3 (or is it 4?) strikes on a truck target to register a kill on a tank range. I almost immediately had a misfire on a truck about a mile away on Tank Table VIII (crew qualification). As I'm popping out of my hatch, yelling "misfire, misfire, misfire" (to stop the clock), the tower is announcing "target," meaning a kill. Since I didn't need to fire the .50 again, I left it alone. Afterwards, I counted the unexpended ammo. 43 rounds. I was on target as I fired, no need to walk the rounds on.
Same day, long range main gun target (2400m, IIRC) at night while my tank is on the move. My gunner misses. My loader is shit hot with the next round, and I announce "from my position" and nail it in time to get full score for the engagement.
I never fired TTVIII again.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
Yep. Yours were not luck though. I used to watch you guy do those runs at Grafenwhoher ...after we lugged the rounds to your tanks. And man, it wasn't an easy course.
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