NIACT Week 2 Recap

Week 2 has flown by and I haven't been able to poist much due to a combination of lack of free time and (USD law'ers will appreciate this) some bastard setting up a peer-to-peer network on our wi-fi which basically hogs all the bandwidth and prevents anyone else from accessing it. It's a trick to get you to log on to their "Free Public WiFi" network so they can do all manner of nastiness to and through your computer. That has been resolved, hopefully with violence, and we're back in action.

We've been shooting a lot this week and it's been good times. I qualified on the M16 under Army standards but did not do anywhere near as well as I'd have liked. The course consists of shooting down a long range bordered by trees with pop-up targets at varying differences from 50 - 300 meters at different locations across the range. I was doing respectably on my first run when a bead of sweat ran down the inside of my glasses (which are strapped on underneath my helmet, meaning I can't take them off) directly in my line of sight, forcing me to fire underwater and costing me a few targets. Between rounds I tried to wipe it off with my glove which had some kind of schmeg on it that smeared all over my glasses and removed no moisture, so the second round turned into a massive CF and I had to settle for a less than ideal score. It's just about pride once you hit 23/40 and qualify, and I did significantly better than that, but I could have done better.

Have to run - more to come later today.



My rack (top - shitty), at the end of the day, ready for bedtime at 8PM. Waking up at 0400 every day will do that to you.



Long view of the M16 qual course.