Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but the primary reason that they shoot
so little ammo, is the budget for ammo has shrunk significantly. Compare
to the 60's, when riflemen fired 600 rounds on average a year. As for
conserving ammo and being deadly accurate, no. They're taught to be
barely accurate shots, and to rely on firing their guns full-auto. The
reduction in the quality of military riflemen is directly attributable to
the fact that fewer people who enter the army already know how to shoot.
You cannot make a crack shot in six weeks of basic training. Add to this
the fact that the majority of people in the army are NOT riflemen (instead
being weapons crews, logistics personnel, medics, computer operators,
etc), and don't get to shoot as often as people who are trained riflemen.
And the training with laser gear like MILES has little to do with
marksmanship. Typically, a MILES system will register a hit within a
short distance of a sensor as a hit. Since the sensor may, for example,
be on your knee, the actual shot may have been six inches left, well away
from your leg. :)
As for us private citizens wasting ammo, well, I PAY for my ammo.
I'm not going to waste it. Most military shooting is done in the general
direction of the target, to keep it's head down. This doesn't work on
deer, for example.
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Frederick Hauppage wrote:
> I think that's because they're trained to conserve their ammo. Add to the fact they're also
> trained to be deadly accurate.
>
> --- Andrew Greene <blaze_at_netaxs.com> wrote:
> ...The average Army rifleman fires 120 rounds a year. I shoot more than three times that in a
> weekend. :)
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Received on Wed Jun 26 2002 - 10:01:05 CDT