Rifle Marksmanship - US Marine Corps Training Video 1999

[Feuer Frei!]

Some good stuff in here:




Takes me back to the Army days when going for my crossed rifles (Marksman).

[Platapus]

"Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do!"

[Onkel Neal]

Good video. I'm reading a WWI history, and the author stressed the importance of the BEF being able to place 30 accurate rounds a minute with their Lee-Enfield .303 rifles to the arrest of the German right wing.

[Wolferz]

Aim center mass and kill a commie for your mommy was the mantra when I went through. I wonder what replaced commie?
We even got to shoot little Russian targets on the little Russians range.
Those targets were much easier to spot than the ones on our qualifying range. Light green compared to dark green and convex compared to flat.
But I still hit 31 out of 40 for a Sharpshooter badge. Those dark green targets at 300 meters in dense woods were almost impossible to see, much less draw a sight picture on. Also, my rifle was made by General Motors, not Colt.

There was one laughable thing in that video. The recoil. The M-16 doesn't kick like that when you fire it. The recoil piston and spring in the stock prevents that. Though it would bloody your nose with the charging handle if you placed your cheek/stock weld too close to it. We had one instructor demonstrate the weapon on full auto with the butt seated firmly in his crotch. The only time I ever had a problem hitting a target was when we fired with a protective mask on.

[Stealhead]

The one really needs his combat glasses with those I had no trouble with the gas mask shooting. Course they changed to a much better mask in the 90's. Things have changed a bit for example keeping boths eye open improves depth preception. You can just barely open your weak eye.

The army and marines also have differing battle sight zeros.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

The one really needs his combat glasses with those I had no trouble with the gas mask shooting. Course they changed to a much better mask in the 90's. Things have changed a bit for example keeping boths eye open improves depth preception. You can just barely open your weak eye.

The army and marines also have differing battle sight zeros.

Marines don't zero their weapon sights from 25 meters?

I never liked the two windowed protective mask and always felt that it should have been a full face shield like a firefighter's MSA mask. Drawing a sight bead with the weapon turned sideways was almost impossible.


Range Walk Private!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Good video. I'm reading a WWI history, and the author stressed the importance of the BEF being able to place 30 accurate rounds a minute with their Lee-Enfield .303 rifles to the arrest of the German right wing.

Indeed as I have referenced in some other posts: 'Mad minute' was a pre-WW I term used by British riflemen during training at the School of Musketry to describe scoring a minimum of 15 hits onto a 12" round target at 300 yards (270 m) within one minute using a bolt-action rifle Lee-Enfield or Lee-Metford rifle). It was not uncommon during the First and Second World War for riflemen to greatly exceed this score. Many riflemen could average 30 plus shots. The record, set in 1914 by Sergeant Instructor Alfred Snoxall, was 38 hits. During the Battle of Mons, there were numerous German accounts of coming up against what they believed was machine gun fire fire when in fact it was squads of riflemen firing at this rate. Von Clausewitz rule two: "Whenever possible increase firepower"...now do it fast and accurate...turned back on the Kaiser's troops