Military Rifle Range

[ExtremistPullup]

A Marine neighbor told me that they dropped the hit or miss scoring of the fleet Marines and went back to the boot camp point system. I like the hit or miss scoring I went from a pizza box to the cross rifles.


200 yards was easy until we moved back to the 300 shooting on the same A target

 

[Chard]

Air Force 74-79 and we qualified at 100 meters. I was in the OKNG during the late 80's and we shot pop ups from 25 to 300 at Camp Gruber. I remember that we shot more rounds for qualification in the AF then the Army NG.

 

[gunnut]

At Tinker a couple times I had to qualify on small arms. Didn't even use real ammo, and everything was simulated. At least we didn't have to clean our weapons afterwards.

 

[11b1776]

It's the same in the Army we had 200-300-500 meters, they had a certain amount of time to shoot before the targets came down, white discs for hits, nothing for misses. Our actual qualification was from 50-300 meters with 40 targets, automated pop ups. 50 and 100 meter targets where a head and shoulder silhouette, 150 to 300 meters where pretty close to man size.

 

[ratski]

army pop up targets from 25 meters out too 300

Had this for rifle every time I had to qualify.

Pistol was a silhouette target at 25 yards.

Dave

 

[mr ed]

I guess if you miss it, you could go out to Red Castle and work the pits at their high power match

 

[TerryMiller]

Fort Leonard Wood, MO between January and March of 1966, U.S. Army.

I had the distinct "pleasure(?)" of being assigned to a Reserve/National Guard company. The training cadre didn't really appreciate the weekend warriors. I don't know if all of that was a factor or not, but our range work started out with zeroing on a 25 meter range. From there, all I remember of shooting involved shooting at pop-up silhouette targets at varying ranges from 50 meters out to 1000. Each shooter had an observer behind them scoring their shots on the varied distance range. Some of the weekend warriors figured out the timing of how long the silhouettes would stay up and timed their shot to coincide with the scheduled "drop" of the target.

I learned the hard way that zeroing could be difficult. My rifle was off enough on the sights to miss the target entirely. To complicate things, one of the shooters next to me on zero day was shooting at my target. The cadre just adjusted my sights and sent me on so they could get more folks through the course. Later, when I couldn't hit squat on the varied distance range, they questioned me as to why someone who grew up with firearms couldn't hit the target. They took me back to the zero range and I got to really get it zeroed. After that, I was able to hit.

I was one of only about 4 or 5 of us that were Regular Army, meaning enlisted, so they did give the few of us some leeway at times.

OK. I may need to correct myself here, seeing as how my memory might not be so good. The longest distance might have been 300 or 500 instead of 1000. As for the speed at which the targets went down when hit versus when they automatically cycled down, that was a long time ago and the mechanism might have been a lot slower for dropping. If I remember right, it also depended where the bullet hit on the target. A hit at the top would have more "leverage" than a hit near the bottom.

Anyway, it was a hoot shooting the M-14, especially since I'd never fired anything larger than a .22 as a rifle.

 

[uncle money bags]

It's the same in the Army we had 200-300-500 meters, they had a certain amount of time to shoot before the targets came down, white discs for hits, nothing for misses. Our actual qualification was from 50-300 meters with 40 targets, automated pop ups. 50 and 100 meter targets where a head and shoulder silhouette, 150 to 300 meters where pretty close to man size.

This is how i remember it 86 to 91 in the army for the m16. I would add the 50 yard targets would stay up for 3 seconds and all other distances were 5 seconds. I only saw this setup conus though. At Graf it was reduced targets and short distances except for the m60 and m2 which were on 800 or 1000 meter ranges. I could be wrong on that, all i really remember for certain was the cold.

 

[LARscout0311]

Thats Camp Pendleton as of 2007

 

[HMFIC]

As far as Military experience goes, Camp Pendleton from 86-92 had pits.

Every single other KD range over 100yards I've shot at as a civilian has as well.