Comments on: Breath Control and Shooting

By: dANIELIWANNABEAMARINESOMEDAY

dANIELIWANNABEAMARINESOMEDAY — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:55:12 +0000

marines are cool so is army

By: dANIELIWANNABEAMARINESOMEDAY

dANIELIWANNABEAMARINESOMEDAY — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:54:36 +0000

I agree my dad always told me to shoot in between heartbeats. He was a expert rifleman in the Corps. Someday I wanna be a marine too.

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By: John M. Buol Jr.

John M. Buol Jr. — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:22:51 +0000

>> In this case, shots fired during the breathing cycle (not at respiratory pause) would certainly be vertically strung, and the bull-gazing shooter would not have a clue.

Good point, but this shows that if the struggling shooter paid better attention to sight alignment and learned to call shots their breathing “problem” would take care of itself.

A hapless soldier with shooting problems is probably flinching and might also have an inconsistent position, poor trigger control and/or lack of good sight alignment. Then some random yahoo with a range safety paddle breezes by the targets and quips “watch your breathing” at the poor group without first bothering to see what the real issue(s) are.

By: Colorado Pete

Colorado Pete — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:57:20 +0000

Heheheheh! I used to be one of those nutty service rifle shooters, though never at Perry. I was so nutty that I shot one of those old muzzle-loading Garands long after everyone else had gone mousing. The sweatshirt is actually for, guess what – SWEAT – soaking it up so the shooting coat didn’t (and stayed cleaner).

My guess on the breathing bit is that if a rifle shooter in prone is staring at the target and not the front sight/reticle, sight movement in breathing will not be as noticed as it otherwise would. In this case, shots fired during the breathing cycle (not at respiratory pause) would certainly be vertically strung, and the bull-gazing shooter would not have a clue.