Fundamentals of Marine Corps Marksmanship 

@Killary For Prison That's nice, but in combat you need your peripheral vision.

Shooting with both eyes open is fine if you're shooting with a red dot scope at a target a few meters away. Firing at a target 200-500 yards away with iron sites is a totally different animal and therefore requires a totally different style of shooting.

In shot gun shooting we try to develop dominant eye shooting, thus allowing both eyes to be kept open.

Ignorant comment. They were shooting at long distance. That's something that needs one of your eye closed.

We get it gramps

@@ryanwilliams9942 lol, I'm 38.

Have you ever gotten a chance to shoot the M-27? It's amazing. A lot smoother than the M16 when it comes to recoil and a blessing from chesty puller to clean.

@@housethemisfitgraves7331 not a fan of the m27. Its unnecessarily heavy. Love it for full-auto but as a rifle it is not smooth or nice at all in my opinion.

Well...climb into a window or pie a right corner with that A2 and tell me again how cool it is outside the range.

OOHRAH!

@@michaelhanson4811 OOHRAH!

It depends. Many skirmishes in Vietnam happened at close range in which suppressing fire at the general direction from the hip was one of the best things you could do. Slings or not, some had, and some didn't. Some got actual sling, and some got makeshift sling made from parachute cord.

In Afghanistan first rotation right after 9-11, we never engaged guys under 300 yards. With acogs we were dropping guys, no problem. But they were good at removing their people, we never really knew how many were done. Or patched up to fight another day. Early on back home regular people wanted their pound of flesh, and thought we were being coy saying we rarely met these people and had no idea on numbers. This changed later on, and even more so in iraq. But in either, anytime outside our r Fob's that weapon was never slung, and it was because of the lessons learned by you in vn. No joke I recall that being drilled in, with references to why and what was learned by previous generations.

+smiley00341 same here! I wasn't that sharpshooter, or Rifle Expert badge straight outta boot camp

What do you mean?

You laugh but I have seen harder women Marines than male Marines.

@@kenkrayzee1382 male feminist, detected

@@sardonic_smile_8752 no just realistic. I’m not saying all but I’ve seen some hard ass female marines finishing forced marches on a broken ankle while plenty of male marines fell out for multiple bs reasons.

@@sardonic_smile_8752 this was also 20-25 years ago and I do realize times change people so this might not be as accurate as it once was.

@@kenkrayzee1382 yeah, you are a *real* feminist.