I can see my objective in site. I'm standing here in the pouring rain,
with the howling wind surrounding me. I go to the front door of the
warehouse and pick the lock of the door. I get in. Now to find a place
to hide and wait for my victim.
There are numerous sites to hide in the warehouse among big tankers
and machinery. I go to one of the machines, too see if it's suitable
to hide in. It looks like an old printing machine, used for printing
money. I climb on top of the printer. I find an agreeable spot to
settle down with good camouflage to conceal me from site. I take my
sniper rifle, with all the latest upgrades with a huge silencer and a
high powered scope. I zero in the sights for about 70 yards. I take my
twelve shot magazine, reach into my pocket to get some bullets but I
hesitate; I can only find one bullet. "What sort of an assassin am I
meant to be???, hopefully I won't need to kill more than one person''.
I put the one bullet in the magazine and load the rifle. I take a
kneeling position and steady my self, "now it's just the waiting, I
hate this time!".
I remain in dead silence. The warehouse is peaceful and soundless. I
pick up my rifle and lean it against my knee.
As I kneel my ears become accustomed to the sounds that were mute
about three minutes ago and know I can here them as if you were
speaking to me. I can hear the infrequent cars drive pass on odd
occasions and birds singing against the background of the torrential
rain and the sound of it dripping out of the leaking gutters. Then I
here another sound, a car, driving closer, much closer than the
others. I see the blinding car lights through the windows like looking
at the sun when it suddenly appears from behind a cloud. "The TIME is
here, maybe the wait won't be so long this time.
Fig.1 Seventeen .223 Remington cases and the bullet impact sights on the Sherriff’s County Vehicle.
In the novel, "Catch-22", many characters are described based on the perception of Yossarian, the main character. Yossarian is a flight bombardier in World War II and the novel focuses on his interactions and conflicts with the men and officers in his squadron, the medical staff, and the whores in Rome. One of the men in the Twenty-Seventh Air Force squadron is Milo Minderbinder. Milo is an intelligent, but heartless, businessman that symbolizes the corporate business ethic.
wait around until they are told what they have to do. There is a small
Wireless voice poles are kept in front of the shooter, so when they are ready for a target they simply call out “Pull”, and a target is thrown. Posture is very important when shooting. Feet are to be placed a shoulder width apart, with feet almost perpendicular to the top of the square. Assuming the shooter is right handed, the right elbow is kept straight out, even with the shoulder, right hand holding the trigger guard and butt of the gun, and left hand holding the stock. Both eyes must be open while shooting for the best accuracy.
I was sitting in the old rickety chair that looked as if it had been there for five years. The smell of gunpowder hung in the morning air as I leaned over the rifle rest. My finger wrapped around the trigger as my eye focused through the scope of my grandfather’s Springfield ’03. I took a deep breath and let half out. My finger tightened on the trigger as I awaited the recoil and crack of the gunpowder igniting. Finally, when my finger’s pull was enough to move the trigger, the gun went off. Moments like this are why I love shooting guns.
The Spencer Repeater is a rifle. A rifle is a gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance. A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder. They were mainly used in warfare, hunting, and shooting sports. The Spencer had a wooden shoulder stock with a integral straight grip. A flip up type sight was ahead of the receiver. The trigger unit was below the grip handle doubling as the trigger guard.
13 What does boresighting do to the weapon system? removes the error between the barrel and sight to produce more accurate fire
"King of the Bingo Game" analyzes the exact separation felt by blacks in the United States. A young black man, the main charater of the story, who remains nameless throughout the story, cannot find work. The Bingo King, is alone in the world and his isolation is further stressed by the potential death of his wife, Laura, who is extremely ill and in serious need for medical care. Pressured by his wife's illness, he visits a movie theatre where he takes part in a Bingo game, hoping to win. As a winner of palying Bingo, he is then given a chance at the jackpot. In "King of the Bingo Game" The working-class blacks of the day were new to inner-city life. Ellison provides an analysis of this relationship with fate, and more specifically, a black
There are many different ways to save money and there are different things to save for. A savings plan for an immediate want is apparently different than a savings strategy for retirement. One may choose to select stocks, bonds, or mutual funds for a savings strategy, however, my personal choice is to invest in bonds first, then mutual funds.
...onfederate War Department. It was a breech loading rapid-fire gun and was cranked operated. The gun was a very light artillery piece that shot a one-pound 1.57 caliber projectile with a range of 2,000 yards and could shot up to 65 rounds per minute. It was used in the Battle of Seven Pines and worked effectively that the Confederate War Department ordered 42 of them#. Even though this gun was so effective it had two major problems. The gun overheated very quickly and breech jammed because of the heat expansion.
Kim’s Convenience written by Ins Choi is a play based upon a first generation Korean immigrant, Mr. Kim who is played by actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee. As scenes progress it was brought to my attention that it will be about Mr. Kim and his family’s life in Canada. The play portrays a strong sense of humour as it focuses a large portion of the story on Mr. Kim’s slipping away legacy. It is based on his will to mend this gap through the use of his daughter, Janet, since his son Jung had left home years before because he also did not like his dad’s traditional views. As the play continues, a variety of hilarious scenarios are brought up as Mr. Kim tries to pass on his experience to his daughter Janet so that his legacy may
In the book, The Game of Their Lives, the story’s plot revolves around overcoming the odds and doing the impossible. The book is an underdog story about how the United States Men’s National Soccer Team defeated the superpower, England, in the 1950 World Cup. It isf about how the little guy defeated the big guy. In the book, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team was a very poor team. The team roster was put together in a rush, and the players had little chemistry. The odds of them defeating the team expected to win the whole tournament, England, was near zero. Despite all the statistics, however, the United States National Men’s Soccer Team defied the odds and shocked the world and England. I myself have had an underdog experience in
...rounds per minute, all with just the pull of the trigger. The recoil operation was a milestone in machine gun development. Warfare had truly changed. “Point a machine, and killing men was like killing bugs” (Chivers, 2010, p.85). It used new forms of cartridges which were placed on a belt that was automatically fed into the gun via the recoil operation.
The firing process begins when the trigger of a gun is pulled. This releases the firing pin, allowing it to collide with and ignite the primer and cartridge. As the cartridge burns, it produces a hot gas that increases the temperature and pressure inside the cartridge. Once the pressure of the cartridge exceeds the friction holding the bullet in place, the bullet moves down the barrel of the rifle. When the bullet leaves the barrel the pressure decreases greatly and the hot air expands as it leaves the barrel. This is the cause of the loud bang when a rifle is shot.
It is a common thing: an innocent, kind, humane person joins the military, goes to war, and comes back as a psychological disaster. They either become paranoid, depressed, anything to this nature. However, there are also individuals who go to war with prior psychological conditions. In J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Waiting for the Barbarians”, is reflective of these two situations. In the novel, war breaks out between an Empire and a group of nomads, the barbarians. In between all of this, is the protagonist, the magistrate, a man with a position of power in the military, who opposes the war. Much like actual war, there is an array of different psychological disorders portrayed through the characters, with some characters having disorders before that influence their performance in battle, or those who get them after, as a result of the horrific acts of torture and violence they either see or experience. While characters like Colonel Joll and Mandel have psychological conditions that make them ideal torturers, their victims display their own psychological disorders that result from the torture inflicted upon them. And though the citizens are not directly fighting in this war, they fall victim to the pressures of war and Colonel Joll and compromise their personal beliefs and morals in favor of the majority rule.