ARES ARMOR TACTICAL TRAINING 3 day course.

[bcrich]

After Scott C attended the SNIPER 1 course I decided to hook up with Tyler,Ryan,Chuck and Steve and finally take the course for myself, this is the first time I have had any kind of training other than coaching from all our shooting buddies! As you know these guys are the real deal Marines that always shoot excellent at big matches i.e. SCPRC and know exactly what they are doing.

First day was started off with classroom lessons on the fundamentals
bone support,muscle relaxation, natural point of aim, maintaining proper cheek weld. Both Ryan and Tyler corrected my bad habit of lifting my head after the shot!
Another thing was to focus on the reticle and I was used to focusing on the target...my grip on the rifle and trigger squeeze was causing my groups to shoot left..... Ryan was watching me shoot at 100 and I can't believe he called my groups without looking thru a spotting scope just by watching me shoot... That's skill & experience!
I was also not shooting at the natural pause between breaths but they drilled that on me too and I center punched the bad guy (3/4 moa)on one of the elevated heartbeat stages making you sprint 50yds + 10 push-ups and 5 jumping jacks get in position and take the shot within 10 seconds....now that don't sound hard but try it. I controlled my breathing and got that perfect shot off and made the hit.
Every day was started with class & then humped all your gear with you to the range about 1/4 mile away.

Second day (Saturday) we shot out to 300 without dialing so every shooter can measure for himself the drop at that range for his bullet on a big paper target .... My bullet dropped 14" made corrections and shot 10 rnd groups ending with a nice group of 2" with 2 straggler shots making it 4" DAMN!

Third day ( Mother's Day ) sorry babe!! We got into the wind formulas and conversions from mil to moa. All this time I just guessed the wind and just corrected off the shot but these guys showed us how to properly estimate and work the formula..... I still over estimated the wind ( no kestrels ) just observations and again was amazed how both Ryan and Tyler could call the wind dope!!! They would wait till I gave my partner (shooter) the wind call and when it missed he calls out what he thought it should have been and next shot was center punching the bad guys!!
I am probably the last of the Mohicans shooting and moa reticle so when they paired me up with the mil guy I had to take my time and get the conversions right but it has to be quickly and this is where I sucked ass, after awhile things sped up and was calling correction holds with rapid re- engagements before conditions changed. We got blasted with some gnarly wind and dust storms it seemed, even covering up our scopes when tall dust devils crossed right over us blanketing us with dirt, something these guys are used to when putting down the enemy overseas. Fucken Marines are the shit!!!!! Coast guard and Navy too Chuck & Steve ha!

Tyler showed his pistol skills at 53yds (I believe) on an enemy jack rabbit with a one shot one kill tradition as it ran across our range haaa! Another fine demonstration of his skills.

It was a pleasure meeting the Ares Armor guys and want to thank them for all they have done in previous deployments and putting a great SNIPER course for all to take advantage of....short of joining the military! Steve and Chuck had a big part in 1 on 1 coaching and explaining things... Thank you!

I would recommend this SNIPER 1 course to anybody to tighten up your game.. It will help you become more proficient at matches and what we do .....PBR
Hope I didn't bore you homies with my shitty write up skills.

[khw9mm]

Nice write up Rich, thanks for sharing.

You better not be competing this Sunday now...!!

[bcrich]

Ha! Me & Sammy plus my bro will help with a movers stage again and can't do both ya know? I have to act like an assistant ha! This next match is all you homie!

[Gnzrme]

Ah... Will see...

Hey Rich, glad to see you had a great time. Your write up was perfect because that's how YOU saw it/did it. Sounds like you took away some good information.

Thanks for the write up

[autoessentials]

Thanks for the write up, Rich. Looks like you had a fun time. Glad to hear that you picked up some new skills to improve your game. I hope to see you out there whooping our asses now.

[ScottC]

Great write up Rich.Glad you hade a good time. I dig these guys becuse they teach real world shit and do not belong to the scope of the month club. To many people want to try and buy skills insted of learning them. If you want to be a gamer this is not the corse for you! If you want to learn good stuff from great guys this is the place. ARES ARMOR TACTICAL TRAINING Basic SNIPER Course. I Love that title.

[bcrich]

Thanks homies! You guys would love the targets ha!!