American Airborne Rifle Training By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif Copyright 2010 by Anthony J.

Fejfar My Dad was in the 82nd Airborne, Headquarters Company, during the Korean War, and, beginning in grade school he taught me how to shoot a rifle. Later, when I was an undergraduate at Creighton University, I took the ROTC Marksmanship class and finished with an Expert Marksman rating on an M-16 rifle with similar rifle training. To accurately shoot a rifle for a right handed person, you must first close your left eye and sight down the barrel of the rifle with your right eye. You line up the target that you wish to shoot with the raised sight at the end of the rifle barrel. You then inhale air into your abdomen diaphram and then gradually start to let the air out as you begin to gently squeeze the rifle trigger. You must never jerk the trigger. Jerking the trigger will throw your shot off by several feet. Squeezing the trigger is like gently squeezing a peach to see if is ripe. After you have taken the shot, you exhale the air from your lungs and repeat the process. Additionally, when you train you must never shoot at a human target, directly. Instead, you train my shooting at a round bullseye target. If you are in the military, you then train by shooting at the round bullseye target which is superimposed on a human target. Later, in combat you never shoot at a human being, instead you shoot at target on the human being. In this way, you never shoot at a human being but instead you shoot at a target. This helps you to keep your sanity in combat because you are in some sense not really shooting at a person, but instead are shooting at a target.

By the way, avoid using a fully automatic rifle or machine gun, semi-auto is much more accurate, and you will conserve you ammunition better.