Modacity shooters' thread

[rossmum]

The contact drill here is conducted before you even consider doing anything else, including dropping packs.

[TVTyrant]

I'm all about light insertion anyways. Unless we're being retarded, we should never be in a conflict where we have to use infantry to haul gear for long distances ever again. Thats what helicopters and trucks are for.

[rossmum]

And look where relying on helicopters and trucks all the time gets us. I heard from an ex-US Army friend that they weren't even taught to dig in at basic - what kind of bullshit is this? If your infantry can't march at least 6-7 miles with their gear and then construct a good, solid position, you may as well not have infantry altogether. Just because most combat now takes place in urban environments absolutely does not ever mean the other environments should be ignored, because then should you need to fight in pretty much any given area of southeast Asia (including here), your troops are useless.

And what happens when the terrain or enemy dictate that transports are not viable? Do you just throw your arms up in resignation and go home?

[TVTyrant]

And look where relying on helicopters and trucks all the time gets us. I heard from an ex-US Army friend that they weren't even taught to dig in at basic - what kind of bullshit is this? If your infantry can't march at least 6-7 miles with their gear and then construct a good, solid position, you may as well not have infantry altogether. Just because most combat now takes place in urban environments absolutely does not ever mean the other environments should be ignored, because then should you need to fight in pretty much any given area of southeast Asia (including here), your troops are useless.

And what happens when the terrain or enemy dictate that transports are not viable? Do you just throw your arms up in resignation and go home?

I agree, and I believe we should train for just about every scenario, but I was citing relevance more than anything.

And yeah, not knowing how to dig in is really, really bad. Thats the Army though. Its pretty much useless when compared to the Marines (modernly speaking, I'd still rather be in the WW2 army than the Marines).

[Spartan094]

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...nov-svd-rifle/

Sooo long wood and many other things, this has though intrigued me.

[PenGuin1362]

Damn I was JUST about to post that. I dunno I like it, I mean I'd take an authentic wood stock Russian SVD over this first, but I'd definitely want one of these too.

[Cortexian]

The contact drill here is conducted before you even consider doing anything else, including dropping packs.

To give some reference to what we would do, in order:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdcNWW7sFyk

Skip to 2:50.

As soon as he realizes he's taking fire, into the ditch at 3:02.

Getting a rough idea of where the fire is coming from 3:02 - 3:04.

(If you couldn't figure out where the enemy was, now would be a good time to hit the quick release buckles instead of returning fire)

Returning suppression fire at 3:05 - 3:07.

Moving to better cover 3:07 - 3:12.

Loading and firing an M302 grenade to cover friendly advance 3:12 - 3:17.

Friend starts some cover fire.

In the Canadian Forces, now would be a good time to hit those quick release buckles on your ruck (if you had one, they don't have any in the video).

Proceed with rest of video as more people arrive at that cover, they would shed any kind of non-essential gear.

[rossmum]

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...nov-svd-rifle/

Sooo long wood and many other things.

This is gross. I would not pay money for that poor, bastardised SVD now or ever.

This recent ~TaCtIcAl RiFlE/cArBiNe~ fad is fucking stupid. Maybe a handful of setups are an improvement and they all look samey and ugly.

[TVTyrant]

Actually kinda cool lol. Its like a 7.62mm Barret

[rossmum]

It's ugly and it really isn't much of an improvement. Want a shorter, more handy SVD? That's why the SVU exists.



It looks a little faded because good goddamn pointing a camera down this thing is hard. It's not as vibrant as a brand new scope when you actually look through it yourself, but it's better than that photo shows by quite a bit. Fuck the haters; PUs rule.