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Graysen Wolfe is the ZPD's newest recruit. He just wants to earn a living, but a new threat is terrorizing the city of Zootopia using an old, forgotten technology. Now to stop it he will have to become his own worst enemy and put himself between the ZPD and an unprecedented threat. Can Graysen learn from the past to save Zootopia's future? Find out here each week as the series continues.
Chapter 16 - Sniper School: Long Range
Graysen continues his training and starts to show a knack for it.
Chapter 16 - Sniper School: Long Range
Graysen continues his training and starts to show a knack for it.
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I compete in 3 gun and I use to compete in steel silhouette. So, no, definitely not a sniper but I have a lot of firearm experience. Everything dealing with the stalking was a lot of research, which I barely scratched the surface of here, more will come a little later in the story. The shooting formulas are all real though and I've had to use them in competition while on the clock. I learned the hard way the slightest miscalculation can throw a shot. Just like Graysen's going to learn. My very first stage in my very first 3 gun competition involved hitting twenty four 10 inch steel plates at 200 meters. I had the rifle zeroed for what they call a "battle zero" at 27 yards. When I ran my calculation for what the bullet should drop I should have been able to put my crosshairs on the plate, dead center and hit them. But, when I pulled the trigger they were all misses. Finally one of the guys in my squad called to me that I was hitting WAY high.... It turned out I didn't measure the height of my scope from my bore axis on my rifle. I thought it was an inch and a half high, turned out it was 2.75 inches. That threw my calculation enough that I was shooting 4 FEET over the target at 200 meters.... Now I just keep it zeroed at 50 yards, which means with a 5.56 round I'm also zeroed at 200 yards, so I don't have that problem any more and the bullet rise and drop only varies a couple inches between point blank out to 200 yards.
Fun fact though, I'm a CWP holder and I'm fortunate enough to live just up the street from a facility that has a V-300 (300 degree) training simulator used by military and law enforcement. One of only two in the country that is available to be used by civilians. And, the one who started me in my training WAS an actual sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with actual combat experience. Really cool guy and an absolute wealth of knowledge for anyone who wanted to learn and was willing to just take in as much as they could.
Fun fact though, I'm a CWP holder and I'm fortunate enough to live just up the street from a facility that has a V-300 (300 degree) training simulator used by military and law enforcement. One of only two in the country that is available to be used by civilians. And, the one who started me in my training WAS an actual sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with actual combat experience. Really cool guy and an absolute wealth of knowledge for anyone who wanted to learn and was willing to just take in as much as they could.
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