On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:09:44 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:22:33 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ignoramus8503" wrote in message
On 2013-01-09, RogerN wrote:

I've been reading some of the PDF I've downloaded, one was on
Quick
Kill
training from 1967 armed forces training. ...After they got good
at it with the BB gun,
they'd switch to their military rifle, sights taped up, and start
over
learning to shoot the larger disc then the smaller disc.

In Basic they took some of us good shots to the range on a moonless
night to try out something similar. The control was to first empty a
20 round mag at a paper target however we wanted. I punched 17
holes,
Pvt Young to my right at the end of the alphabetical firing line had
23. That ended the experiment.

That must have been embarassing, your shots ending up on Youngs
paper.
gd&r

(Did you ever figure out who missed that badly?)

It was too dark to be sure which target was straight ahead, we could
barely see them at all, or each other. That's why they chose a
moonless night. Have you ever been way out in the country in complete
darkness, no city light on the horizon?

Yeah, it's dark as the inside of a bear, it is. I'm pretty far out of
city limits (3.5mi) but a few idiots around here have merc vapor lamps
on all night. Looking east from about 2 blocks east of me, it's
pretty black, but the city lights come over the western hills. You
can see city lights for 'lebenty miles on a dark night in the
wilderness.

--
I started out with nothing and
I still have most of it left!
--anon