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To keep it really Smith & Wesson forum related; this my Smith & Wesson M&P-15 V-TAC LE.
Feeling Special, are we?
My "repel boarders" gun
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Feeling Special, are we?
AJ
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To keep it really Smith & Wesson forum related; this my Smith & Wesson M&P-15 V-TAC LE.
How do you use those iron sights with that thing in the middle? Just asking???
Bill Bates
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The Navy has addressed the problem with boarders using this rig. Wait until they get close enough where using the scope backwards is not an issue.
US Navy mocked for image of captain firing gun with back-to-front scope
US Navy mocked for image of captain firing gun with back-to-front scope
Bill Bates
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Maybe they wanted the target to look really far away.
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He's just practicing simulated long-range shooting.
Aggie1906
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My Navy vet SIL likes to mock me for firing Sharpshooter on Army Basic pop ups. He fired Expert in the Navy, using an M-14. Says it took almost all day.
My reply is we had rain the night before firing for record, nobody got Expert.
My reply is we had rain the night before firing for record, nobody got Expert.
AJ
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Saw this and thought of your post.
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That's not how it's going to happen. The "boarders" some day will come across the southern border. Wait…… that would never happen.
AJ
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Not sure how difficult the Army courses are. But the Navy's aren't that difficult. I fired a Navy Ribbon Qualification Course for handgun using a 2" Model 36 when I was teaching at NS Long Beach. I fired a 400 out 400 and rate a Navy Distinguished Expert Ribbon. I suppose I could have worn it on my ribbon bar, but felt it would look out of place with my USMC Pistol Expert Pistol Badge.
NFrameFred
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Well, I ain't got me one of them, but I am thinkin on it. Trouble is I have no idea where to start. There are too many ways to make a mistake for the uninformed
I wouldn't sweat it. As long as you're buying one of the newer offerings there's not much "junk" out there being pedaled these days. Unless you're planning on shooting competition or sniping prairie dogs out past 300 yards most of them will perform satisfactorily. Not many average owners ever gonna wear out even a 'cheap' one shooting it.
Buy a configuration that will allow you to use the kind of sights you want and the stocks you prefer, and put the money in practice ammo, optics and an upgraded trigger. Unless you reload and are into using heavier bullet weights for extended ranges and are willing to experiment for the optimum results - everything I stated above applies - in my opinion.
In 1973, the Marine midshipmen from Auburn's Navy/Marine ROTC unit were scheduled to go to Fort McClellan to be the aggressors against the Marine reserve unit from Birmingham AL. When we arrived at Fort Mac, after coming up in the rain, a Marine captain from the reserve unit told our Marine advisor, Major Philson, that the Army wouldn't allow the Marines to shoot their 105s in the rain. The Major, an artilleryman, had a meltdown, saying that the blanky-blank rain didn't stop anyone in Viet Nam from fighting. I believe he served two tours over there.
AJ
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The Marines just tend to shake their heads at some of the rules the other services have........
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