Insurgent Sniping In Iraq

[atmiller]

Looks like Steve Austin, or "Stone Cold" to the wrestling fans. 

[Combat Diver]

Pathfinder- Rifle is a Italian Beretta AR70 (select fire) rifle in 5.56x45mm.  Rifle below that is a Iranian licensed copy of the German G3 in 7.62x51mm (also select fire, captured during the Iran/Iraq war)

atmiller- you are correct sir, and win a cookie

[Rob Pincus]

The no bone on bone thing does seem a bit weak with your metaphor

Sometimes that is the problem with metaphor... :-)

The issue is neither Bone on Bone nor Muscle on Muscle. What you are looking for is HARD on SOFT. Examples:

Elbow into the big muscles of the upper leg when seated.
Tricep resting on the knee when kneeling
Cheek (soft) on the comb (hard)
Buttstock (hard) against chest/shoulder muscle (soft, not the the hard ball of the shoulder joint or on the collar bone)
forend of rifle on a soft bag.
Bipod's rubber feet on hard ground surface.

The REASON is to absorb movement and vibration. M25 is correct that the "rubberiness" of soft on soft doesn't provide stability, but the unsecured Hard on Hard (elbow on a knee, for example) passes every small movement (breathing, etc) through the entire system. It also makes it much harder to maintain the position or extended periods of time and almost impossible to maintain the position through recoil and bolt manipulation.

-RJP

[Jackel]

i cant help but think that if china or russia somehow invaded the US that is probably what i would be doing, wouldn't you?

i know they are killing thousands of innocent people and i dont agree with that, but if the chinese were in our backyards we would all probably be making IED's and laying them down on the sides of highways.

[Kid Shelleen]

i cant help but think that if china or russia somehow invaded the US that is probably what i would be doing, wouldn't you?

i know they are killing thousands of innocent people and i dont agree with that, but if the chinese were in our backyards we would all probably be making IED's and laying them down on the sides of highways.

I'd be PMing you right now for that Walmart and Lowes materials recipe.

[Sponsor]

[Jackel]

anytime bro 

[tombogan03884]

 Poor Man's James Bond by Kurt Saxon 

[Ping]

I remember reading this article in Guns and Ammo a couple of years ago. I came home that night and did a search with the name of the jihad snipers (I cannot remember the name but I believe it is in the Guns and Ammo Article). Came across a video that showed jihad snipers with camera mountings taking shots at Iraqi's, Americans and Canadians. It was very disturbing and most were kill shots. I could not believe that it was even posted on the internet. There were at least 50 different military personnel shot. I do know that I went through a box of tissue after viewing the video. At that time I had two cousins in Iraq. One in the Marines and another in a Army Stryker Unit. I know my prayers went twofold after seeing the video.

[Ping]

Juba was the name of the sniper. That is where I started with the web search and found the video I mentioned earlier.

[tombogan03884]

 Remember this, with the body armor you are   going down if even if it DOESN'T penetrate, and since there is a lot of trauma involved you probably will not be moving for at least a few seconds.
Secondly, these are jihadi propaganda films, they are edited for effect, so if the guy does jump back up and return fire, that's getting edited out.