Sniper 101 Week 3 Essay

Problems resulted due to soft factory projectiles causing Glock to issue warnings against the use of lead. Many companies today will void a warranty if hand-loads are used and this is not economical for shooters. According to Campbell (2017 Pg-1), the Glock uses a unique form of rifling known as polygonal rifling. According to Nash (2012), in a polygonal barrel, these cut lands and grooves are replaced by “hills and valleys” in a more gently rounded polygonal pattern, usually a hexagon or

The video begins by panning a large room curated with firearms all around. Then Jerry Miculek is standing with a gentleman who has invited him to fire some weapons. It appears there are every type of firearm n those walls, and is impressive. Mr. Miculek then is shown outside, with some ear muffs on. He is holding an original AR-10 Armalite. It is both semi automatic, as well as fully automatic, and was manufactured in the 1950's. Mr. Miculek has the pleasure of firing this weapon, and states he will try semi auto first. The rounds go down range without a hitch. Next, he loads another magazine, and switches the selector switch to full auto. He then fires the firearm, and it is impressive. There were approximately eight one hundredths of a second between rounds firing. The cyclic rate of fire on this weapon would be around six hundred rounds per minute. That is impressive for a 7.62x51mm weapon, in my opinion.

With the recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that they will be going back to the 9mm cartridge, there has been a rekindling of the age old caliber war on various internet forums and on social media sites such as FaceBook. It so happens that this new round of my caliber is better than your caliber comes at a time when I am making preparations to attend the 2015 Realistic Advanced Combatives Seminar hosted by Cabelas in Dundee, Michigan and taught by Dave Spaulding and Sgt. Charles E. Humes.

The story is common. A new shooter goes to buy his first defensive handgun with a blurry idea of what he wants and needs. A few slick smiles by the salesman and a haul-truck worth of his personal opinion and the shooter walks out with a firearm they’ll eventually find doesn’t work for them.

This week’s reading is on the Cartridge and Firearms Identification. The measurement system used in cartridges and firearms is not universal or has a systematic reasoning on how a caliber or gage is determined, such as Europe and the United States has their own systems. But how ever there is NATO standard for the military. First we discussed calibers and how they are determined. The imperial system, by using fractions of an inch and designated as caliber, uses the interior bore diameter of the firearm, this originated with smooth-smooth bore arms. There are several ways to measure for the caliber; by measuring the interior diameter of the bore, from land to land, grove to grove, measuring the interior diameter of the casing neck, measuring

Fitzgerald’s team conducts active shooting training seminars in schools, churches, and other workplaces in the region. They use airsoft guns with cushioned rubber balls to make the training more

A gun is a static object, so, any deflection of the barrel away from the sighted target is generated by the shooter. Since the barrel protrudes 16” to 20” from the shooter’s body, a lever arm is created. By which any pulse, vibration, sway, or other unintentional movement transmitted is multiplied at the end of the barrel. Reducing these forces is critical to maintaining a steady hand, and thus a steady barrel. The shooter must perfect his skill in controlling his or her body in order to control precision. Together, these skills greatly improve accuracy. The result, leaving the range with targets full of tightly grouped shots becomes a regular

Five years ago, my step-dad Kevin drove us out to Colorado Clays. It was a frigid Friday evening in March. I sat in the passenger seat of his blue Chevy truck, anxious but excited. Finally, we had arrived at my first 4-H sanctioned shotgun practice. With my Browning 12-gauge pump action shotgun and box of 25 target load shells, I stepped onto the line. I placed one shell into the loading port, turned the safety off, and held the shotgun up to my right shoulder. There was extra padding on the butt of the gun but I still cringed when I called, “Pull!” The bright orange clay came flying out of the forest green trap house. I pointed somewhere in the distance, closed my eyes, and pulled the trigger.

With step four you start adding other steps that are not like reloading brass. Inserting a wad which helps seals the gases to provide the pressure to push the charge out. Step five is dropping the shot charge in the shell. It is important to keep an eye on the volume a projectile occupies inside the barrel and not wholly fixate upon the projectile’s weight. The principle behind stacking buckshot pellets is that the greater the angle of surface contact between two pellets, the greater the tendency those pellets will impart energy in that

This week’s chapter over reloading the straight-wall case was a good reading for me since I have no experience in reloading. For some reason when I read the title I was thinking about old rifle cartridges and not pistols. The biggest thing so fare from this class that I have learn about to get accuracy and reliability in ammo is case prep. It’s like painting a car. You spend 80% on the body work and 20% on the paint.

If you’re a gun owner, the Internet is your playground. From solid data for your next loading project to ballistics resources that help you understand a bullet’s flight from ignition to target, there is a wealth of information. Honestly, it would be fair to say that the everyday average shooter has more resources at his disposal now then perhaps any other time in the history of marksmanship. But the right data is as elusive as the X-ring on a MR-31 target.

This week’s article over handloading the M1 Garand and producing good accuracy with the rifle means carefully crafted hand loads. You are not likely to produce the best results with foreign surplus loads or even our own generic ammunition. So, when loading the Garand, the first hurdle is getting a firm grasp on the differences between loading for a bolt gun and loading for a self-loader. You must have perfectly sized ammunition and you must load within the pressure limits of the system without battering the rifle.

The video began with the shooter explaining how he came to owning the Ruger 10/22. He told us the viewer that his father gave himself and his two brothers each a Ruger 10/22 for Christmas. The video also explained some of the accessories that the shooter has used over the years. He explained that he has used a number of aftermarket stocks over the years that he has owned the firearm. Next, he gave a brief overview and some background information on the rifle. He informed the shooter that the Ruger 10/22 was a 22. Caliber semi-automatic that is fed from a detachable ten round box magazine.

The cartridge is the ammunition that is placed into the chamber of the firearm. Each firearm is designed to fire a certain caliber cartridge. Each caliber ensures a tight fit in the chamber of its assigned firearm, which will not allow any gases to escape once fired. Firing the wrong caliber cartridge could result in a gun jam, or you could destroy the firearm. Bullet cartridges are a combination of a projectile (bullet), a propellant (gunpowder), and a primer (explosive cap), all contained in a metal casing. The spark ignites the gunpowder. Most people believe that it is the explosion that propels the projectile; however, this theory is false. When the powder ignites, it releases gases that expand and push on the projectile. Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which implies that for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction. As the expanding gases exert force on the projectile, it is forced into the barrel of the firearm. The recoil of the firearm is the equal but opposite force created by the gases forcing the projectile to accelerate out the

Using the same diameter, adding to the projectile’s weight and increasing the grains of powder; Smith & Wesson designed a new cartridge instead of chambering the new revolver. This resulted in a round with