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No. 6377
ID: 86d321
To explain the appearance of the marker:
It's a T15 from Tiberius Arms, a 1:1 AR15-based marker compatible with 100% of milspec AR15 furniture. I plan on getting an AR15, and I wanted to have it help with familiarity with the platform, in addition to it being slightly relevant to my job.
For the scope being on top of the receiver, which I understand your incredulity about:
â—‹ I wanted the ironsights and scope to both be elevated and in-line with the barrel, so that with a facemask on I am more easily able to use the sights despite having a stock
â—‹ That sight picture is very similar to the one I've used since I was 7, on the very Mini 14 I've got on my bed right now, about to get cleaned
â—‹ I like carrying handles, but mostly it's for the reasons stated above. If I want to use sights effectively, I need them raised off of the receiver. Back when I used a Tippmann 98 Custom with a flatline barrel and an old crossbow scope during those few games I played a few years ago, of woodsball, it was hell trying to use either sight because the concept of a cheek-weld is thrown out the window when you're using a cheap Walmart mask shaped like a damned Decepticon's face.
In regard to how I hold the rifle in a standing position:
The AR15, if you don't have a free-floated barrel, has its accuracy negatively affected holding it the "proper" way, by a severe degree, but holding it by the magwell or using the magazine as a "monopod," if that's a thing, affects it very positively.
The reason I've held it that way this long may be due to ignorance of the "proper" form, unfamiliarity with rifles, and lack of training as you've implied, but doing this gives me an aim that simply doesn't jitter even a little. I cannot discern even a centimeter of movement, as opposed to holding it with my hand forward on the rifle's handguard which, while faster to switch targets, has discernible jitter like Resident Evil 4's point of aim.
The reason I began aiming that way is that, on my first day using this rifle when I was about 7, I was at a range with my grandpa. Rather early into the use of it, I burned my hand twice and got my pinky caught in the bolt's forward motion, cutting me.
I held the rifle directly under the action, right in front of the magazine, and my hand was safer but I experienced an increase in recovery time for getting back on target. I corrected that by holding the corner that I said earlier, the 90 degree spot between the magazine and the rifle, and since it was feeling heavy and I was tired by that point I put my elbow into my side. The result was a stance that was fast to get back on target, didn't chop up my hands because I barely knew what I was doing, and also allowed for a bit of a steadier aim.
As I got older and bigger, my arm happened to fit perfectly in the sling, bracing my elbow into it drew it taut and pins my hand into the spot described earlier. In addition, I found I could reload almost twice as fast, and when holding it that way with my arm braced I barely moved from the recoil and didn't jitter worth a damn no matter how long I spent at the range or held the rifle "at the ready."
It's just how I've always shot. It feels very strongly as though it severely increases my performance in every way, every other way I've tried to learn feels clumsy in comparison in at least one regard. If there's an even better way of doing it that you could teach me, I'll be your best friend, man, but as it is the "proper" way feels like it's slower, less steady, and less "strong," although that last one is probably placebo. I read once that users of the Thompson SMG felt similarly during a fight due to the significant weight of the weapon, it felt "more like they had something in their hands."
I am a complete novice, and one major reason I'm going into the Navy is the training. The T15 isn't even out yet, and I planned on doing the purchasing about March 2014, after I've received that training and gotten some money.
Can you please go further into detail about what "rookie mistakes" I'm making? I'm afraid I don't see what you mean, and if it's something that'll disprove 14 years of thinking I'm learning correctly it's something I need to unfuck before someone gets hurt. I don't want to be "one of those guys" that shoots himself or another in the foot or something.
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