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Why would you not sight in at 100 yards?
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 1631539" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>Yes he did. If I could find it, I used to have the older Sniper Training and Employment manual for the US Army, which showed the aimpoints for the M21 with open sights when set at 500 meters. A shot at 100 yards had the aim point at about the crotch, 200 was the knees, and 250 or so was at about the crotch again. You aimed higher on the body for everything out to 500 meters. He also used the M21 system a few times, and his spotter carried an M21. I should also mention that GSgt Hathcock was a member of the Marine rifle team, and a highly experienced long range shooter, who had won the Wimbleton Cup at Camp Perry before he was first deployed to Vietnam. He did that with the 300 winchester Magnum target rifle with scope. He used the 30-06 because it would range to over 1,000 yards at sealevel with the 173 grain sierra bullet, and it didn't have the recoil of the .300. Lake City match was easily available for him, and more than adequately accurate at distances out to around 1200 yards. I don't know if any of his ammunition was hand loaded while he was in Vietnam, but I know that was the practice for competition shooting in both the Army and Marine Corps rifle teams. Lots of times, there are dedicated armorers who hand build the rifles for both the Army rifle teams and the Marine rifle teams specifically for the Wimbleton Cup matches. They also accurized the M14 for the open sight matches at Camp Perry, which go from 100 to 600 yards, which is where the M14 National Match rifle comes from, and the M21 grew out of this with the Art I and II leatherwood scopes. I don't know if Carlos or his spotter used the Leatherwood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 1631539, member: 60453"] Yes he did. If I could find it, I used to have the older Sniper Training and Employment manual for the US Army, which showed the aimpoints for the M21 with open sights when set at 500 meters. A shot at 100 yards had the aim point at about the crotch, 200 was the knees, and 250 or so was at about the crotch again. You aimed higher on the body for everything out to 500 meters. He also used the M21 system a few times, and his spotter carried an M21. I should also mention that GSgt Hathcock was a member of the Marine rifle team, and a highly experienced long range shooter, who had won the Wimbleton Cup at Camp Perry before he was first deployed to Vietnam. He did that with the 300 winchester Magnum target rifle with scope. He used the 30-06 because it would range to over 1,000 yards at sealevel with the 173 grain sierra bullet, and it didn't have the recoil of the .300. Lake City match was easily available for him, and more than adequately accurate at distances out to around 1200 yards. I don't know if any of his ammunition was hand loaded while he was in Vietnam, but I know that was the practice for competition shooting in both the Army and Marine Corps rifle teams. Lots of times, there are dedicated armorers who hand build the rifles for both the Army rifle teams and the Marine rifle teams specifically for the Wimbleton Cup matches. They also accurized the M14 for the open sight matches at Camp Perry, which go from 100 to 600 yards, which is where the M14 National Match rifle comes from, and the M21 grew out of this with the Art I and II leatherwood scopes. I don't know if Carlos or his spotter used the Leatherwood. [/QUOTE]
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