Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Sunday, July 06



On Sunday, the team fired two matches. Match 4, the Rural Contact match, involves sharpshooting from 500 yards, then fire and movement from 500 to 100 yards, as well as rapid fire and snap shooting at 300 yards. Top Canadian shooters in this match were CWO Atkins and WO Verch, tied with a score of 172.

Match 3, the Advance to Contact Match (also known as the Whitehead), involves an approach run and then a continuous fire and movement match, with a 400-meter “Attack” (an agony snap on fall-when-hit targets), a 300-meter “Consolidation” (a snap shoot from the trench), a 200-meter “Patrol Encounter” (a snap from the standing, kneeling or squatting positions, returning to a standing alert between exposures), and finally a 100-meter “Close Quarter Battle” (a double-tap snap from the standing position). Top Canadian shooters in this match WO Verch and MCpl Savard, with 152 and 148 respectively.

The pictures show some of the Canadian team members returning from the approach run. (Yes, they are still wearing 48 lbs of equipment.)

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