at 25-50ft

Just me messing with ya bro

while wearing a scuba mask

Lol

they told me there was a swimming hole up there before we went up...turned out to be a skeeter pond

so no swimming for me

anyway...after i get done with all 12 shots..i turn to my bro and ask him if i could shoot one of his friends for picking on me on the trip to the place

both his friends dived into the ditch on the otherside of the truck

No shit , when I was in 10th grade had one of the Crossman 357 co2 guns
I shot a bat flying around in my backyard . My neighbor came out and said "good shot, it must have been a dingbat" lol

in the navy boot camp they had a target range u had to qualify to understand how to shoot basic..they basically just told u to fire the 45 at the target

anyway....my turn to shoot...i fire 1 round....missed the target, i turned to the instructor and said the gun was off

instructor marked me down as 'marksman'

turned out they were using under powered loads and the sights were off anyway....also they rigged the 45 to shoot 22

A conversion kit. My cuz has a colt ace I want bad from him. Big dollars these days

other reason why i got marked that was i knew how to use the gun..drop clip, re-insert clip, turn on and off safety, cock gun

the usual stuff a normal gun owner would know...even tho it was my first official time with a 45 colt

.45 is a good round

well fired a 357 mag as an early teen..so figured a 45 wouldn't be that hard as a late teen

thought the kickback was too low for the 45

turned out it was weakened rounds and lower cal

What are the rifle/pistol ranks other than marksman in the miltary?

Expert maybe?

Sofaking would know , miss that dude too

marksman, expert, sharpshooter, ...to name a few

sharpshooter req's rifle mastery

Well, Thad be me😉

anyway...after that 357 mag incident ...bros refused to take me to target practice since...even decades later...they considered it a waste of ammo...since i didn't need practice

but because of that natural skill..they wanted me in the army

but i didn't want to be in the army...i wanted tech skills so i opt'd for navy or airforce

Shooting is a deteriorating skill , you have to stay in practice. Different conditions, distances, calibers.

opposite for me...more i shoot, the worse i get

and conditions, distances, calibers, and charge yield powering each shot is all basically math to me...and i was really good at math

All you you need is to be really good with one rifle though. And know bullet drops for every distance, then you're golden

But then you start thinking you need different rifles for different applications and have to start all over again

It's all just comp fun for me now. All about group size with the least amount of money you can spend

i just play online games mostly now

the free to play ones

tank games, ship games....

Yeah that's fun too

once i used to beta test for 'world of warplanes'

hated it when they tried to make it like 'war-thunder' and basically ruined the game