Can I Pass The WWII Rifle Qualification Test?

[375 Ruger Fan]

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

@375 Ruger Fan
A few years ago yes I could have passed that test easy.
Nowadays with the body falling apart quicker than I thought I can't even get into some of this positions and if'n I did I would need a chiropractor to straighten me up.
As for prone getting down is easy getting back up not so easy.
Nowadays if i go camping I use a camp bed. If I slept in my swag on the ground and had to be up at 6am to go hunting I would have to start get upright at 2am. It would take me that long to get up off the ground.
Bob

 

[JimP]

@375 Ruger Fan
A few years ago yes I could have passed that test easy.
Nowadays with the body falling apart quicker than I thought I can't even get into some of this positions and if'n I did I would need a chiropractor to straighten me up.
As for prone getting down is easy getting back up not so easy.
Nowadays if i go camping I use a camp bed. If I slept in my swag on the ground and had to be up at 6am to go hunting I would have to start get upright at 2am. It would take me that long to get up off the ground.
Bob

I'm to the age that I need to plan on how I'm going to get up if I just sit down in a chair, much less than on the ground.

But even 20 years ago I could pretty much pass any of the test with room to spare.

My last bull elk hunt ended with a fairly easy 1 1/2 mile pack out on a old closed road. Once I got it out I made up my mind that it was the last elk pack out that I was going to do.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Wonder if they did the same qualification with a Garand?

 

[OxfordTheCat]

The Garand qual I'm familiar with is different, and was on rapid fire:

Garand is 16 shots on target, in 79 seconds, standing to prone.
16 on target in 74, standing to kneeling.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

The Garand qual I'm familiar with is different, and was on rapid fire:

Garand is 16 shots on target, in 79 seconds, standing to prone.
16 on target in 74, standing to kneeling.

@OxfordTheCat
Try the mad minute mate with the SMLE 303.
20 shots in sixty seconds from the standing position at a dinner plate size target at 300yds.
Now that's some fine shootin' Dan'l Boone.
Just google MAD MINUTE.
Bob

 

[OxfordTheCat]

@OxfordTheCat
Try the mad minute mate with the SMLE 303.
20 shots in sixty seconds from the standing position at a dinner plate size target at 300yds.
Now that's some fine shootin' Dan'l Boone.
Just google MAD MINUTE.
Bob

I know it, I just don't have a chance at it: Left eye dominant, so shoot left handed with right handed guns, and have to cant the rifle as I run the bolt.
Even if I was right handed, I'm not sure I could learn to pull the trigger with the middle finger!

Have you ever given it a whirl?

 

[Ray B]

The USMC had two rifle courses in 1969, the A & the C. Both had targets at 200, 300 & 500 yards. The A had five positions, ten shots each with Bullseye 5 points, Total possible 250 points. less than 190 was non-qual; 190 - 209 Marksman, 210 - 219 Sharpshooter; 220 - 250 Expert. the C course was more bizarre and wasn't around too long. The targets were various shapes and angles of D targets and it was hit or miss for each shot, then number of hits times the number of targets hit. I recall when I fired it I had qualified as expert at the 300 yardline with 10 shots to go at 500. these were for the M14. I guess they now use the M16 at similar ranges- They must have improved them a bunch from the 1967 issue- the ones I used were lucky to be on Minute of NVA at 200 yards.