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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
What are the 8 fundamentals of marksmanship?
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RL:
Not being a wise guy here so please -- no law suits.
The eight fundamentals went out of use about twenty years ago. Thank God. SFAUC still uses them and the results are evident. No one knows which one of the eight he needs to work on to be better, and no one can do eight things perfectly at once.
Today there are only four fundamentals by Army doctrine -- about two or three too many IMHO.
I use two or maybe one for some folks. Fire the shot when the barrel is pointed into the middle of the target. It works pretty well in fact and there is little confusion about cause if shots go astray. Either the pointing or the pulling of the trigger is the culprit.
Pointing can be a vision issue or a zero issue. Trigger pull is a human issue.
I have tried to write a three hundred page manual on shooting but can't seem to get past one sentence. 'Train the eyes to see and the finger to move. '
Gene