Zeroing at the Range
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On friday, we zeroed our weapons on the range. Zeroing is the process in which you try to get your weapon to shoot in the exact spot that you want to shoot it, which is very important when you are firing it at a 300 meter target.
Tomorrow I qualify. Anyway, I'm at a place where I can post pictures. Lately I've been the 'hook-up point', mostly because I seem to be squared away at first glance. Since 85% of my unit appears to be from warmer climates (ie - the South) and I'm actually in the same place I usually am (ie - Washington State), it hasn't been to rough on me so far. In fact, it's been a cake walk. I was expecting lock down and being busy from sun up to sun down. Anyway, people have specifically expressed interest to not have their pictures posted online. So innocent standbyers are either cropped off entirely or their faces have been blurred.  Just chillin', waiting for my chance to zero. I handed the camera off to the Specialist who stole my gator and told her in return that she had to take pictures. She didn't take to many.  Eh, not to the effect of 'not sorry', but I somehow at one point had two weapons on hand. I was guarding my NCOIC's, who had to go to the doctor's and would be at the range later. That helmet didn't quite fit my head.  I think I'll just stick to shots I took. The zero range didn't go to well for me at first. Becuase I was wearing a lot of stuff to keep warm just in case by some fluke chance it actually RAINED in fort Lewis, I wore my wet weather gear. I also wore my polypropelene underneath so I wouldn't be cold. My kevlar also isn't quite adjusted to my head just yet. Everytime I tried to shoot, it would flop in my eyes and I couldn't get a good site picture. I finally started shooting in respectable shot groups after I stripped off half my cold weather gear. But it took me far longer then it should have to zero. *sigh* That evening, we had to fire at a target fifty meters away that was basically the sillhoutte of an upper torso. We were given two 15 round magazines. Our task? To shoot as many downrange as quickly as possible and land at least 7 of the 30 rounds into the target. Keep in mind it is dark. And the point is rapid fire. And my kevlar still didn't quite fit my head (don't ask me why I didn't just adjust it, I didn't think ahead at the time) It sounds easy to lob 7 out of 30 rounds into a target but it proved to be more difficult then I expected. I honestly thought I was going to fail because I was just shooting rounds down range in the general vicinity of my target but I couldn't see a damn thing. Finally, after getting my stupid Kevlar out of my eyes, I saw a couple of tracers in the direction I wanted them to go and just kept firing in that spot. Low and behold, I managed to hit the target 14 times. It's a bloody miracle if you ask me. Qualification tomorrow. The camera is coming with me. More then.
Posted by Erickson on 1:54 PM : (((
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