DEMONSTRATION OF PROPER SIGHT PICTURE - PEEP STYLE IRON SIGHTS

An incorrect and correct sight picture with peep sights.

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[CrimsonOmen407]

so why would holding the rear sight closer to your face make you more accurate if there is more open space around the front post? i understand that it obviously helps you see whats around your target, but it seems to me like it gives you more room for error in the alignment of your front sight.

[millerusaf]

@CrimsonOmen407 You would think so, but the opposite is actually true. Getting close to that rear aperture allows for more minor adjustments in aim. Try it out if you can on a target at about 100 yards or so.

[corpsman1968]

@wootfortoot "Carbines" are also configured in pistol cartridges. Again, it a matter of applied function.

[corpsman1968]

@wootfortoot Really? The US Army entered Manila in 1944, The Japanese Navy mounted a defense. Part of that defense was rounding up tens of thousands of Filipino civilians, stuffing them into an old Spanish fort, threatening slaughter if the Army did not withdraw from Manila.

This was ignored.The civilians were slaughtered then the Jap forces were annihilated. I wonder what would happen now. See Hue City, Tet68.

Effective war fighting requires application of maximum force. always.

[wootfortoot]

@corpsman1968

well if you can have a choice of two things that both work well for a situation and one was less likely to kill an innocent tthan im pretty sure i would know which i would chose

[corpsman1968]

@wootfortoot Collateral damage. Another propaganda instrument that is designed to assuage

the spirits of those fine creatures in power who feel compelled to reduce the impact

of war. Stupid. War means ruthless and overwhelming force applied on any

enemy asset .Anything less means more casualties for our guys. Hiroshima.

The invasion of Japan would have taken millions of lives, to many of them our

guys. Destroy the enemies will to fight. CQB is political and unnecessary in war.

[wootfortoot]

@corpsman1968

the round is still considered a rifle round. therefore the platform that shoots it is either a rifle or a "carbine"

[wootfortoot]

@corpsman1968

i never said anyone needs 5.56 in close quarters. i said it would have less potential for collateral damage. 7.62 is a great round but it does have its disadvantages. it certainly has more capability than the 5.56 which is why i suggest augmenting .308 weapons into squad and fire team sized forces to give them increased capability without the entire squad having to deal with the disadvantages of the round.

[corpsman1968]

@wootfortoot "the5.56 is by no means a sub-machine gun caliber" As I understood my instructors a sub-machine gun is a short to medium range full auto, magazine fed, short barreled battle weapon in any caliber. That includes pieces using rifle cartridges, albeit mostly they are pistol cartridges or rounds like the .30 carbine that are on the edge. Thus some AR's are true sub-machine guns and most of the others are easily used as such. Function over form. What all the CQB BS is about.

[corpsman1968]

@wootfortoot My. The 5.56 can be lethal out to 300-400 yards. However, past 250 meters one has to make a vital organ or blood vessel hit to incapacitate, much less kill due to loss of fragmentation capacity against flesh.. The 7.62x51 reaches that level of degradation at about 800 meters. No one "needs" 5.56 in CQB.. What is needed, is what works.This is conditioned reflexive thinking from 45 years of BuOrd and contractor propaganda and corruption. Nothing new about that.

[wootfortoot]

@corpsman1968

the5.56 is by no means a sub-machine gun caliber. due to its ballistics it is very lethal out to about 300-400 yards where it remains acceptable until about 550-600. that is the reason why .308 weapons should be there too but as a support role. also very effective against light cover. another thing to take into consideration is that in an urban environment the armed forces would be better off with 5.56 to minimize collateral damage as well as m4 better suited for cqb.

[corpsman1968]

@wootfortoot I see it the other way around. The majority of rifles should be 7.62X51 with a smaller number of 5.56 weapons, or sub-machine guns such as the MP5. During WW2 and Korea the squad level mix as similar, Garands, 2 BAR's and some .45 sub-guns or mediocre M1 carbines.

By Vietnam we had lost the sub-machine gun element. Then BuOrd really screwed things up by taking away 7.62 rifles, replacing them with a medium range sub-caliber sub-machine gun called the M16. More dead Marines.