sprithitler
Member
When do you go to the range? on a nice afternoon with the sun in your back, a soft breeze and a nice 25 Celsius in the air? or in a blizzard when its 30degrees below?
The time when you actually need to use your gun, wether it is for defending yourself from a knifeman att poinblank range, picking off a new years celebration massmurderer in the city square or shooting a goodsized white tail doe for the larder it may be anything from perfect shootingweather. Do you train accordingly? In civilian clothes i have never went shooting under anything but good conditions, in the military it has been quite different circumstances more than a few times.
Let me tell you that operating an assault rifle at -30 celcius is not childs play, the Gun must not be oiled, if it is, it may not cycle, if you touch the cold gun with bare skin it may actually freeze to the gun. Shooting accurattely with heavy gloves, quite a challenging undertaking. Not to mention that when you get the deepfrozen gun inside the humidity in the air will condense on it and it will need to be stripped down, dried out and oiled, and then dried up from oil again before it is again taken outside into the arctic.
I have never shot in desert conditions, but shooting on a windless day with +30 in the shadow and a baking sun is quite a challenge, wether you shoot a .22 unique or a 7.62 H&K G3, Sweat stinging your eyes, Hands slick from sweat trying to grip the gun.
Targetshooting in car headlights poses different challenges from shoooting at noon on a lightly overcast day, or from shooting towards a low sun.
My point is, do you train hard, and in all available conditions, so that you can fight easy?
Or do you only go to the range on lightly overcast +25 Celsius windless days?
The time when you actually need to use your gun, wether it is for defending yourself from a knifeman att poinblank range, picking off a new years celebration massmurderer in the city square or shooting a goodsized white tail doe for the larder it may be anything from perfect shootingweather. Do you train accordingly? In civilian clothes i have never went shooting under anything but good conditions, in the military it has been quite different circumstances more than a few times.
Let me tell you that operating an assault rifle at -30 celcius is not childs play, the Gun must not be oiled, if it is, it may not cycle, if you touch the cold gun with bare skin it may actually freeze to the gun. Shooting accurattely with heavy gloves, quite a challenging undertaking. Not to mention that when you get the deepfrozen gun inside the humidity in the air will condense on it and it will need to be stripped down, dried out and oiled, and then dried up from oil again before it is again taken outside into the arctic.
I have never shot in desert conditions, but shooting on a windless day with +30 in the shadow and a baking sun is quite a challenge, wether you shoot a .22 unique or a 7.62 H&K G3, Sweat stinging your eyes, Hands slick from sweat trying to grip the gun.
Targetshooting in car headlights poses different challenges from shoooting at noon on a lightly overcast day, or from shooting towards a low sun.
My point is, do you train hard, and in all available conditions, so that you can fight easy?
Or do you only go to the range on lightly overcast +25 Celsius windless days?