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Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

My nose bruised by my SUSAT due to dodgy eye relief

What was your nose doing behind the sight at the point you fired the round? I look through the SUSAT with my right eye. Are you some form of contortionist? And more importantly, what was you score?

Whilst shopping in the local German supermarket, the boy turned round and said out loud:

Look Dad, a fat man, he's very fat. If only the ground could have opened up, especially as half the queue understood what he said

Originally Posted by strima

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

My nose bruised by my SUSAT due to dodgy eye relief

Prep for firing anyone?

Hmmm, yes - 3 minutes to clean your weapon in the troop shelter. But you're right and I'm not complaining, just stating a fact.

Shooting was fine though.

Originally Posted by Mr_Logic

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

My nose bruised by my SUSAT due to dodgy eye relief

What was your nose doing behind the sight at the point you fired the round? I look through my the SUSAT with my right eye. Are you some form of contortionist? And more importantly, what was you score?

If you can look through your sight without the side of your nose (the bridge) being in contact with it then fine - but it's what works for me. I dropped 5 rounds at 100m (pathetic), another 5 at 200m and handed back 10 rounds at 300m having used 5 to drop 5 Fig 11s. Which just goes to show that I can shoot better at 300m than 100m!

So overall, very happy - especially as it was my first APWT for years!

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Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

Originally Posted by Mr_Logic

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

My nose bruised by my SUSAT due to dodgy eye relief

What was your nose doing behind the sight at the point you fired the round? I look through my the SUSAT with my right eye. Are you some form of contortionist? And more importantly, what was you score?

If you can look through your sight without the side of your nose (the bridge) being in contact with it then fine - but it's what works for me. I dropped 5 rounds at 100m (pathetic), another 5 at 200m and handed back 10 rounds at 300m having used 5 to drop 5 Fig 11s. Which just goes to show that I can shoot better at 300m than 100m!

So overall, very happy - especially as it was my first APWT for years!

Firstly, well done on the shooting, although I do feel that you would benefit from a bit of coaching. Your accuracy from the 300m point was presumably firing prone. I suspect that the rounds you missed from the 100m and 200m points may well have been firing from the standing, kneeling (supported and unsupported) and fire trench positions. If you work on those positions (and perhaps your eye relief) a commendable 35 will probably be transformed into low 40s. You will be the envy of the detail and able to regale them tales of your experience and general allyness.

I still don't get the nose bit though. Have you some form of facial deformity? Did being smacked in the face with the SUSAT enhance the whole experience or was it just a first round 'oh bugger' moment? Do tell.

me finally get airlifted out of FOB INKERMAN. Go out to fix something, took me 5 mins and 3 days later i get to leave. Nice view of the Green Zone though, but whoever thought of putting an effing big white balloon above the FOB and expect to be there 2 days later was sorely mistaken!