Playing sniper is always fun. We shoot here several times a week and this is always my favorite. I welded a bunch of steel plates together for targets and we put them out on a hill ranging from 600 meters to a 1,000 meters. We then shoot from a position in the middle of our FOB. The picture below will illustrate this.
If you look out over my rifle you see three large trucks and a tower to the right of them. Out further from the tower you will see the shadowing from the hill that we put the targets on. So we are, very controlled, shooting over the FOB out into the desert. It is a lot of fun.
This rifle here is a MK13 300 Winchester Magnum. It shoots a 7.62mm (308) 190 grain bullet. It has a Remington 700 bolt action with a Nightforce 5.5x22x56 mildot scope. With the collapsible stock. It is a sweet rifle to shoot. When the bullet hits the steel target it makes a wonderful thud sound.
This rifle is the SR25 EM Rifle. Shooting a 7.62mm 175 grain bullet. It is semi-automatic gas operated. It has a Leupold MK-IV M3 10x mil dot scope. It is also a fun one to shoot.
These are just some random pictures that I took from the tower. This is facing west from our location toward the city of Najaf, Iraq. In the left of the picture is a large power plant.
This picture is facing the east of our location. The plant that you see there is a cement plant. As you can see there is not much out here but flat and sand. It is a very small base that we are on. Sometimes it feels like a prison that we are in; the difference is that we do the security for our own prison. Now that sounds funny.
Bye.
2 comments:
Man, that looks like a lot of fun. Glad that you are enjoying some of your time away. Keep your head down and watch your 6.
Isaac
How well do you do with your shooting? Rachel would love that. She took shooting lessons in Williams and really would have liked to get into the sniper training.
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