Posted May 11, 2015 4:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

Rubber mats! (courtesy marinecorpstimes.com)

OK, it’s actually Marines Use Rubber Mats to Improve Marksmanship. But what a difference a consonant makes, in terms of click bait. Anyway . . . “Marines in Hawaii are using rubberized shooting mats on the rifle range, a comfort upgrade officials credit with dramatically reducing failures during annual marksmanship qualifications,” marinecorpstimes,com reports. Wait. What? Shouldn’t the quals have some relation to real-world conditions? Isn’t qualifying marksmanship on rubber mats a bit like scoring at a whorehouse? Sure seems that way. In fact . . .

The new mats were installed in January at the Puuloa Range’s 200-, 300- and 500-yard firing lines. Early results suggest there could be about a 90 percent reduction in the number of Marines who fail their first qualification.

“They were so comfortable especially in the prone,” said Cpl. Brittney Vella, a combat correspondent assigned to the base’s Headquarters Battalion. “If you had rocks on your elbows it was difficult to have a stable base, so the mats helped us be stable and you felt like you connected with the ground a lot better.”

Rocks on your elbows? Cpl. Vella, I’m gonna give you three seconds–exactly three f’ing seconds–to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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