Reply With QuoteHahahahaha 300m won by a pogue chocko Officer Cadet? There must be a dozen WO's spinning in their graves.
Australian Army Skill at Arms Meeting (AASAM) 2012 Results
AASAM 2012 was held at the Puckapunyal Military Area in Victoria from 07 - 17 May 2012.
International Match Results: http://www.army.gov.au/Army-life/Spo...ults%20V2.ashx
ADF Match Results: http://www.army.gov.au/Army-life/Spo...ults%20V2.ashx
http://www.army.gov.au/Army-life/Spo...M-2012-updates
Hahahahaha 300m won by a pogue chocko Officer Cadet? There must be a dozen WO's spinning in their graves.
Maybe 1-2 WOs will be high fiveing each other.Originally Posted by Slouch
The best shooting instructors I know(including WOs) love working with fresh meat......folks who haven't developed bad habits that need to be unlearned......plus if you've been in long enough....you run into the odd idiot savant with a rifle...he is an officer cadet...so either situation might apply.
U.S. Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division assemble on the firing range to listen to a safety briefing during the opening day of the 2012 Australian Army Skills at Arms Meeting (AASAM) May 7 in Puckapunyal, Australia.
U.S. Army Sgt. Steven Whetstone, 2nd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, fires at 300 meter targets and while (top) Australian Army Warrant Officer 2 Rod Bitter, records his score during a match at the 2012 Australian Army Skills at Arms Meeting (AASAM) May 7 in Puckapunyal, Australia.
Australian Army Pvt. Luke Challman, fires at 300 meter targets while U.S. Army Sgt. Marcus Fontenot, 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, records his scores during the first day of competition at the 2012 Australian Army Skills at the Arms Meeting (AASAM) May 7 in Puckapunyal, Australia.
No offense, but this fella's sitting up kinda high for shooting a Steyr ****e unsupported isn't he?
Is there a reason for it on this range/serial?
I'd think not looking at the US Army per firing his m4 ****e with a pretty solid firing position.
I'd hate to be ****e like that in a 300m agony serial...as he was snapped while firing(brass ejecting and muzzle blast) I'm thinking he wasn't snapped testing/adjusting a good firing position.
I think we can cross Australia off the ACU Might Work In These Countries List.
300M with an optic? Pfft.
It does seem pretty high, even for those who prefer a high position. Maybe because he's just a Private and doesn't have a lot of experience.
My own training in the USMC has given me a deep dislike of the super low ****e position with the magazine acting as a monopod. I am right handed, and when I'm in a **** position you can draw pretty much a straight line from the muzzle of my rifle to the heel of my left foot. Both legs straight at about a 30 degree angle, heels flat, toes pointed out.
Same same.....I'm a big fan of shooting long range ****e unsupported...but for me it's as many points of contact with the dirt as possible(mag, pistol grip, monopod with a single finger under it)....cause the dirt don't move as much as me
I probably spent 2-3 times as much time finding the right piece of dirt to shoot on than I do with aligning my rifle and myself to the target.....a good bit of dirt with the right shape could mean a couple extra points!
There's nothing quite like lying behind a rifle, closing your eyes, day dreaming, and then opening them 30 seconds later still glued to the target....that's a good bit of dirt!
When we first got the F88 I was taught to go low mag on ground etc.But it changed back to unsupported...I shot better the first way but I'm a **** shot so what do I know.
Make that a female chocko OCDT ... to be fair, she *is* a good shot - it's what happened afterwards that got a fair few of the ADF competitors dark against her ...
A few of the matches involved wearing MCBAS (Body Armour) and helmet, well she didn't have to because 'she couldn't safely reach the trigger'. Consequently, she took out and and accepted the award for the Bayonet Assault Match without, as many ADF competitors saw it, complying with match conditions. Initially she was seen around the range sporting a teddy bear adorned with souvineered patches and badges from various international teams - as I understand it, a few schemes developed involving a number of different outrages on said item ...
As for the P_r_one Unsupported position, there were some serials which stipulated the P_r_one Unsupported only was to be employed and other serials gave the firer the choice of Basic P_r_one/P_r_one Supported or Unsupported as he/she saw fit.
For the camo nuts, the competition gave a good view of how the various international teams camouflage patterns worked against a limited number of backdrops. Many of the Asian patterns were very dark (although the Malaysian camo seemed quite effective under a shaded woodland environment) however the most generally effective seemed to be Auscam and MTP (Brit Multicam). There was not a lot between the UCP ACP and our naval DPNU uniforms and the few US Army personnel I spoke with commented that at least their pattern was effective in 'drawing the enemy out'!
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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Cody R. Nelson, III Marine Expeditionary Force combat shooting team, fires a M249 machine gun from a kneeling position at 100 meter targets during an international machine gun shooting match at the 2012 Australian Army Skills at Arms Meeting, May 9 in Puckapunyal, Australia. AASAM is an international marksmanship competition consisting of 16 different countries. This year is the fifth iteration of AASAM and the third consecutive year that United States forces have been invited to participate. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Holzworth
More pics of AASAM here: http://www.marines.mil/news/Pages/ph...box=aasam+2012 (CBF embedding them all)
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