Pencil Quals
by Slow Hand 
, Indiana, Friday, July 29, 2016, 05:28 (2978 days ago) @ bob
My dad doesn't tell many Vietnam stories, but the pencil qual was one he has shared!
He was a farm boy, used to jump shooting rabbits along a fence line, but he had never target shot and never a high powered rifle. He was in 65-67, and isn't a 'gun guy' so he can't remember if it was the Garand or M-14 he used in basic, but he said he was basically scared of it. He said he learned to shoot off of the side and go up and poke his target or have buddies do
It. He was a crew chief on a Huey H Model, so the main gun he ever fired was an M60 out of the door.
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Complete thread:
- M16 reliability and growing pains... -
Byron,
2016-07-28, 11:37
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- A lot of pogues and poseurs out there. We call 'em out - Hobie, 2016-07-28, 12:50
- no design is perfect... -
Slow Hand,
2016-07-28, 16:17
- no design is perfect... - Harry O-1, 2016-07-28, 17:57
- no design is perfect... -
Sarge,
2016-07-29, 07:00
- I like that one! - Slow Hand, 2016-07-29, 09:59
- Well now... -
Byron,
2016-07-29, 11:18
- Well now... - Sarge, 2016-07-29, 12:31
- My first qualification -
bob,
2016-07-28, 20:03
- Pencil Quals - Slow Hand, 2016-07-29, 05:28
- Too good to keep down.... - Byron, 2016-07-29, 06:55
- My first qualification - mcassill, 2016-07-30, 08:26
- "As well or better than anything else out there" - mcassill, 2016-07-30, 08:14
- Born in 1955 here -
Bob Hatfield,
2016-07-30, 12:13
- I hear that... -
rob,
2016-07-31, 20:36
- I hear that... - Bob Hatfield, 2016-08-01, 18:24
- I hear that... -
rob,
2016-07-31, 20:36