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Low light
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PreserveFreedom
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Low light, yes. I have been meaning to work on left handed though. My low light practice usually consists of shooting my empty beer cans a little ways from the campfire. A MGD can is a challenge in low light since it is mostly black.
When I can. It is difficult to since our dept. range has day hours, as do most of the shooting schools do that I have attended. Our nighttime qual course does not even involve a flashlight. A pain in the rear, since at night I always have one.
Did a fair amount of low light sniper training in the sniper schools I attended. The basic course involved using headlights near the target for a three second exposure. The target was blacked out, lights on, lights off. The advanced had the light source at the yard line that we were at, either 200 or 300 yards. At that distance you can see the outline of the target and nothing else, unless you have NVGs. Low light is where a varible power scope comes in real handy. Power it down and you grab more light, not alot, but enough to help out. I saw guys with Mk IVs losing their cross hairs in lower light. Another trick we learned is to take a small light stick, I think that they are called peanuts, and tape it to the bottom of the scope, just inside of the front objective. Gotta be creative with the tape or all you will see is a glow.
Would OJT count? Plenty of times where I have searched dark areas with weapon and flashlight.
Did a fair amount of low light sniper training in the sniper schools I attended. The basic course involved using headlights near the target for a three second exposure. The target was blacked out, lights on, lights off. The advanced had the light source at the yard line that we were at, either 200 or 300 yards. At that distance you can see the outline of the target and nothing else, unless you have NVGs. Low light is where a varible power scope comes in real handy. Power it down and you grab more light, not alot, but enough to help out. I saw guys with Mk IVs losing their cross hairs in lower light. Another trick we learned is to take a small light stick, I think that they are called peanuts, and tape it to the bottom of the scope, just inside of the front objective. Gotta be creative with the tape or all you will see is a glow.
Would OJT count? Plenty of times where I have searched dark areas with weapon and flashlight.
I shoot every Sunday with an informal 'tactical shooting' club and we shoot all types of scenarios. 2 Sunday's ago, we shot with extremely low light conditions. It was incredibly educational. I was very happy to see that my reloads had a very low muzzle flash. We practiced using flashlights, gun-mounted lights and no lights to shoot the courses of fire that were devised. We found that we were actually able to complete the course of fire faster when we didn't use any light other than that from our tritium night sights. Most of us found that when we used a light of some kind we took a little longer in pulling the trigger because since we could now 'see' our sights we wanted to line them up prior to taking the shot. As I said it was a very informative shoot.
Evan
Evan