Post by kutkota on Sept 9, 2013 8:08:53 GMT -7
Just returned from Fort Chaffee, and my trigger finger is a little sore!! We had are battalion down there with roughly 100,000 5.56 and about another 20-30,000 5.56 tracers. Challenge accepted!
My company was running the zero and qualifying range so we pretty much had the run of the place. I zeroed and qual'ed the first day and then spent the rest of the day doing reflexive fires, tac reloads, malfunctions drills, and just generally wasting, uh shooting ammo. The second day I qualified, sitting, standing, prone, leaning on my med bag between my legs, on my side, left handed, right handed, you name it I did it. We had the pop up targets so we had feed back on when we hit them. With an acog it is fairly easy to identify where you missed if you did. No weapons maintenance done until the last day, more so just to see how far I could run it without even a wipe down. Had a few feeding failures but I think it was bad mags more so than the weapon because we were using the range mags and when switching to my pmags I brought it was a none issue.
Late thefirst night we broke out the tracers, looked like a dang star wars movie with the richoctes. Started a few fires, but all in all was a fun, hot weekend. Weapons maintenance the last night was not as much fun, but the beer helped. It took a gerber to fully disassemble the bolt. Good times though. I am guessing that roughly 3-4 grand was sent down range from myself alone.
My company was running the zero and qualifying range so we pretty much had the run of the place. I zeroed and qual'ed the first day and then spent the rest of the day doing reflexive fires, tac reloads, malfunctions drills, and just generally wasting, uh shooting ammo. The second day I qualified, sitting, standing, prone, leaning on my med bag between my legs, on my side, left handed, right handed, you name it I did it. We had the pop up targets so we had feed back on when we hit them. With an acog it is fairly easy to identify where you missed if you did. No weapons maintenance done until the last day, more so just to see how far I could run it without even a wipe down. Had a few feeding failures but I think it was bad mags more so than the weapon because we were using the range mags and when switching to my pmags I brought it was a none issue.
Late thefirst night we broke out the tracers, looked like a dang star wars movie with the richoctes. Started a few fires, but all in all was a fun, hot weekend. Weapons maintenance the last night was not as much fun, but the beer helped. It took a gerber to fully disassemble the bolt. Good times though. I am guessing that roughly 3-4 grand was sent down range from myself alone.
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