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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2076012" data-attributes="member: 7900">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.</blockquote>

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