Sniper
Alright so I had a pretty good day today…
I woke up a bit late this morning, called up the DMV to see how busy there were (so I could go take my CDL exam for my transit application) - come to find out they have about a million people there. Odds are I would have sat there for 3 or 4 hours just waiting to take a stupid exam…
..so instead I took a ride with big Tom up to Rocky Mount to do a little shooting. He’s fresh out of a marine core tour of duty in Afghanistan - he’s a sniper, so I knew I was in for some great advice. I’ve never fired a rifle before and I’ve never had any marksman training - but I’ve really gotta tell ya - I surprised Tom and I really surprised myself.
The weapons we fired today included:
the AK-47 (a nasty Russian weapon whos accuracy sucks but it packs a punch)
an AR-15 (which is the equivalent to the military M16 - hot rifle)
the Daewoo K2 (another equivalent to the military M16 - just a Korean version)
Firing all three of these was a lot of fun, but the AK handled like shit (just a good suppressive fire weapon), the AR-15 had a lot of kick but I got pretty with with it in the standing-unsupported position, and the K2 was a real smooth shot because of the larger stock. I had a great time and..whattya know - I can shoot.
-Matt
June 21st, 2004 at 8:07 pm
Today matt”DEADEYE”London on his first shot took the taget right out.
When he was ask if he wanted to fire the weapons he jumped right on it like it was nothing.I was looking though a spotting scope to see the impact of the rounds.Then the shot heard around the world came from the rifle That”DEADEYE” was shooting. Good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!