This week’s chapter over Iron sight, optics and night vision was a good chapter for me to go over with. I haven’t spent much time studying about this section. I defiantly do want to lean more since I have started to spark interest into shooting long range. Right now I’m more familiar with red dots and iron sights. That’s why I knew before this lesson that the typical magnification of red dot and reflex sights is 1 x magnification. Now you can buy a magnifier to get up to 3 x magnifications. These sights are more ideal for CQB, planking, and home defense. Probably the most ideal sights for civilians to buy as well. For me as a Police Officer I think they are awesome. But I would never go cheap with them the average cost will be around $450
In addition to the Model 1861, the Spencer rifle also contributed to the success of the Union forces. The most substantial amenity to this weapon was the rate of fire. Most Southern soldiers could fire their muzzleloaders at three rounds per minute. The Spencer shattered the Confederate weapon and boosted the fire rate to 14 rounds per minute with the weapons built in primer. In addition to being such a powerful asset when in control by th...
(Charles H. Smith, page 2). However, other military branches disdained Thompsons because they were inaccurate. The Standard issue M-1 Garand was the most popular rifle carried during WWII. The M1 Garand is durable, accurate, and has a high firing capacity. General Patton exalted the M1 Garand as being, “The greatest battle implement ever devised.”
middle of paper ... ... These new soldiers would be better shooters against their enemy and would save great amounts of ammunition and money. Contests were held across the country to find these elite sharpshooters. To make the cut you have to put 10 consecutive shots into a target at two hundred yards.
4 What is the sustained rate of fire of the M249? 85 rounds per minute
I was carrying my whole life with me, as I walked towards the aircraft. I was carrying two suitcases, filled mainly with clothes and books. I know they were less than 20 kilograms because that was the permissible weight. I could not feel their weight as they were on the trolley. I had a backpack on my shoulders. It contained some eatables, some clothes, a novel, some magazines, a portable CD player, some CDS, a deck of cards, and an inflatable pillow. I was well prepared for my long flight. In my hand I carried as brown leather case containing my passport, visa, and all other personal documents and papers. If I were to lose that case, technically I would cease to exist. Other than that, I had a tennis racket slung over my left shoulder. In short, I was carrying almost all my belongings with me. But that was not all I was taking with me. I was carrying with me memories of 18 years. Things and incidents, long forgotten, resurfaced in my mind, with incredible detail. Every face around me reminded me of uncountable incidents. I was carrying with me a sense of tremendous loss. But, at the same time, I was also carrying with me hope and excitement. A new world called me, and I was looking forward to go there. To protect me in this new place, I had a holy red thread tied on my wrist. That was the explanation my Mom had given me when she was tying it. Though I did not necessarily agree with her, looking at the thread did bring a warm feeling in my heart. It symbolized the love and blessings of my parents which I carried with me, wherever I went.
During the civil war before the introduction of the machine guns, union soldiers predominantly used smoothbore muskets. “The rifle’s low muzzle velocity and consequent high parabolic trajectory made for difficult long-range shooting, especially since soldiers engaged in little target practice and received virtually no training in estimating distances or in using the adjustable sights to compensate for the bullet’s curved flight. The tangled terrain of most battlefields—and the black powder smoke that engulfed every battle—often rendered enemy soldiers invisible until they were within smoothbore range” (Hess 288). This was assumed to be the reason of why the war was prolonged, and the combat losses were higher during the smoothbore era. Also with an ability of only firing a “maximum of three rounds per minute” (Howey), this rat...
The M4 Carbine is shown to have scopes attached in the film and lens glare can be seen when the gun moves, further adding the realism and suggesting that it’s an expensive equipment. The emphasis on the thickness of the de...
Swirling fog and dynamic light surround my silhouette, a warped halo of ominous colors accentuating the restrained passion of my abrupt, powerful gestures. A demonic cackle resonates from my parted, sneering lips, a sense of power emanating from my very pores. I summon my strength for my greatest achievement, my moment of glory, the heroes of humanity having fallen before my wrath, as pleas for reconsideration bombard my deaf ears. The stroke of a button - water vapor and carbon are the last remnants of the blue and green orb that for so long careened around a furnace of burning hydrogen.
Guns in the wrong hands can be bad just like a car in the wrong hands or a knife in the wrong hands. Everyone is not going to treat a gun with the same respect that it should be treated with but that does not mean that it should be taken away from everyone else. Guns continue to protect people whether they are in the hand of a badge officer or a regular civilian. Hunters are still using guns to teach lessons to upcoming generations about putting food on the table. Guns are a valuable part of life and always will
Trapped men seeing their mates through the dusty fog, recognizing them, their hopes rose: their mates wouldn’t let them die. But many couldn’t be reached until the fires had been put out, until steel had been cut away, until the emergency workers could stabilize the slab. They screamed and cried for what seemed like hours but even after they stopped the survivors kept hearing them.
These kinds of weapons were impractical for military use, but attracted many people to the arms race for weapons that could sweep the battlefield. “They had limitations in practice, among them slow re...
My heart was beating loud and fast in my chest. It was getting harder and harder to keep myself above the icy water and my body was slowly shutting down. I tried to fight back by thrashing my arms and legs around but I quickly got tired and my limbs were going numb. Screaming was no use as it barley sounded like there was any noise escaping my mouth.
Heiting, Gary, and Mark Mattison-Shupnick. "Bifocals and Trifocals for Vision Over 40." All About Vision. All About Vision, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 23 May 2014. .
My First Memory- Personal Narrative I’ve had many memories during my lifetime, many good, and some bad. My