Originally Posted by
hammonje
Nope only shooting at paper and hope to keep it that way. Thanks for your service Ron.
What is a Marine to do when his/her optic breaks?????
What if he/she needs to take a 400M shot??? ACOG only???
Doesn't really seem the Marine way to bow to making something easier???? It's difficult for a reason.
I don't know, guys seemed to do pretty well with irons with 03s, Tommy Guns, M1 Garands, M14s, and M-16s through the 20th Century. Those seem to me to be the more major conflicts than the quasi wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting peasants nowhere near as clever as the Viet Cong/NVA or Inmun Gun. In all likelihood conflicts will remain small as the former colonies/under-developed world continue to struggle. Again our military leaders underestimated our adversaries and remain overly reliant on technology instead of mastering political manipulation that our adversaries do so well, especially the Asian communists.
I'm sure it makes it easier, but easier does not mean it's the better way to train someone from scratch. You're cheating them....consistency is difficult and marksmanship is filled with fine details. How are they to discover the effect of head placement and cheek weld???? These are issues that have to be proven during trigger time. You can't learn them with a parallax-free RDO.
Just b/c the military does something does not make it the best alternative. If they can't qualify then perhaps the instruction is sub-par. Seems to me that Marines have been shooting excellent since their inception.
I agree wholeheartedly that irons suck compared to RDO in low-light and target acquisition, but that's not the point. The point is that the fundamentals of sight alignment and trigger control cannot be taught well with a dot.