Band of Brothers, Series....yes it's fitness.

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(8 February 2013, 18:06)Mortblanc Wrote: You are watching movies again, and believing them!

Haha, kind of. More like, the program made me think about writing the post, but I've been looking at firing under stress for a while. What many Americans call Running-n-Gunning (I love that expression!!!).

(8 February 2013, 18:06)Mortblanc Wrote: You are watching movies again, and believing them!

Those guys are not all that good with their weapons.

in WW2 the average was 15,000 rounds per kill
in Korea the numbers were 5k per casulty, (no total kill figures available)
in Viet Namn it required 50,000 per casulty

Our present comflict is digesting 250,000 rounds per kill.

Running is stressed as a training method because it costs nothing, expends a lot of energy and absorbs a lot of time. A bored GI is a GI about to get into trouble. We were always encouraged to fill in empty training time with runs using the need for conditioning as the excuse.

During the "cold war era" we always took it for granted it was training for high speed retreat in the face of 10/1 odds!

That's kind of the point I was thinking about. I know there are thousands of shots per kill, but not many of us over here have thousands of rounds (we can't legally hold that number).

So I was more looking at those with bows and arrows, and those with air rifles (especially the single shot bolt action ones or break actions). How many of us could fire while under stress, whether from running or being shot at?

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(8 February 2013, 18:29)Highlander Wrote: A bit different now of course, I dont do a lot of running these days, I walk a hell of a lot, but dont run,... maybe I should give it a try again sometime and see how I manage after all these years

If you do, regardless of whether the groupings are awesome or awful, I'd love to see what you came back with. Post the pics and give us a report of how it was.