SH3 improved my aim!

[Fenris_Wolf]

Greetings kaleuns

So I was out on a hunting trip, again, and deep in a forest this time. I have an antique Mauser Karabiner 798 rifle and a hunting scope mounted on it. Although it's usually used to hunt deer or other harmless game that doesn't retaliate, I use it to hunt wild boar which happen to be very large and aggressive if injured and not dealt with properly. Though I never harm any deer or other game, just wild boar, because it ruins the crops and fields outside that forest. One of my companions, the only other armed person in our party, was using a shotgun and they did not approve of a rifle for this purpose as it's not the norm.

Anyway, I used it confidently and applied the principles of physics that I have learnt by firing torpedos in SH3; I always aimed slightly ahead of a running target depending on it's distance and speed, as well as the speed of the projectile (albeit greatly increased in this case), and guess what? I scored two one-shot kills on running, monstrous wild boar which is a dangerous animal when it's mature, large and has developed tusks, and after you injure it and if you are hunting on foot. I'm always on foot and despise the use of vehicles. The guy with the shotgun, using 9 pellet cartridges, laughably, always missed. :D

I left the larger one of the two for the game warden who happens to be a friend and the other one I left for the little wolves that live in the forest and the next day I saw them having a feast. :arrgh!:

[Brag]

Excellent! You should have cut some meat for a boar stew. :up:

[Madox58]

Welcome to the world of the Sniper!!
Snipers are trained to gage wind speed and direction,
movement of intended target, and the natural trajectory
of any given round effected by all of the above.
When you make that
"One Shot, One Kill"?
It's a heck of a feeling!!
Congrats!!!
:rock:

[Puster Bill]

Congratulations, and good shots!

Now, next time be a *REAL* man and use one of these:

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/6217/miniflint4pm.jpg

I haven't used a modern gun to hunt with for the better part of a decade now.

[Madox58]

I haven't fired a weapon since I left the Army in the mid 80's.
But I'd fight to the death for the right to do so!!
I don't hunt cause shooting the neighbors cows is a no no.
I don't eat wild game so I don't hunt.
But I support the right to hunt!
So don't jump on me cause I choose not to!!
It's just that I buy my beef by the half steer!
:up:
UMMMM!! Grass feed Beef!
It's what made Texas famous!!!

[Puster Bill]

Errm, OK privateer. My comment was pointed at Fenris_Wolf.

I can't say that SHIII has influenced my shooting in the real world, but one thing it has done is made me more confident with merging traffic:

Thanks to SHIII, I know that if a car stays at the same 'bearing', we will collide if one or the other doesn't yield. Quite useful to know at on-ramps.

[Fenris_Wolf]

LOL .. is that a musket? I'll uh.. try to find one of those! :up:

And thanks for the encouragement!

Yes I pretty much believe in the "one shot one kill" principle, I deem it a necessity.

The crosshair in the hunting scope on my rifle is pretty much how it looks like through a SH3's u-boat periscope minus the various directional and gauging tools visible in it.

For actual "sniping" I need a scope with the "mil" dots in it's crosshair to measure distance, etc.

This is how my gun looks like, without the scope.

http://www.egun.de/market/uploaded/1600714_4767f2ecc0770.jpg

Isn't she a beauty? :D

[Steel_Tomb]

I've never had the opportunity to fire a live round, although I've been on the electronic ranges that the armed forces over here in the UK use. My dads in the RAF reserves and his sqn had a family open day so I got a chance to fire the L85 on the range. Things like recoil are matched exactly by compressed air or something. Anyway, the RAF regiment guy was watching me and said some regulars don't get consistent shots like I did. 100% hit rate, all in the head :up:, he said "Your supposed to aim for the bullseye in the chest" :roll:. He asked me what I wanted to do in the RAF and I said pilot, he then replied "Bah you should join the RAF Regiment, be a sniper!" (I was actually tempted for about 0.5 seconds!)

Nice shooting, would love to get the chance to fire some live rounds.

[Puster Bill]

LOL .. is that a musket? I'll uh.. try to find one of those! :up:

And thanks for the encouragement!


Actually, it's a rifle.

It's kind of a "transitional longrifle", something between the Jaeger rifles (short barrel, large caliber) originally used in the colonies and the classic "Golden Age" American longrifle (long barrel, smaller caliber).

It's got a 36" .54 caliber barrel, and I use a .535 round ball with pillow ticking patch lubed with one of four things depending on my mood: Beeswax and tallow, dish soap and water, saliva, or (usually) store bought black powder lube.

The lock is a large Siler flintlock. Silers are the best locks, they have the correct geometry for fast and reliable ignition, and they don't batter the flints. I get at least 50+ shots per flint.

The stock is a medium grade of curly maple. The fittings are brass.

It was built by my father for me about 8 years ago. The drop and cast-off in the stock are customized to my build, so when I throw it up to my shoulder the sights are already aligned.

If you have reasonable woodworking and (some) metalworking skill, you can build one yourself. I got the parts from http://www.trackofthewolf.com (http://www.trackofthewolf.com/)

He made most of the minor parts from scratch, though, like the ramrod thimbles, the nosecap, the sights, the trigger, the ramrod, touchhole liner, and the patchbox mechanism.

Using it to go hunting is like using a Type IIA: It adds to the challenge.