Uhhh Hi.

[kariann330]

Hey yall IM BACK!!!

Nothing else....just happy to finally get my ban lifted....oh and I start a new job today!!

Today is looking good for this girl!!

[Cindy]

Karianne, welcome back to Susan's

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What is your new job?

[Ms Grace]

Welcome back! From memory you were having real problems with your back and/or legs? Has that improved?

[kariann330]

Welcome back! From memory you were having real problems with your back and/or legs? Has that improved?

Knee injury. I had torn the MCL and it was invading the joint. It's all better now and when my doctor went in to trim the bucket handle tear he also found a Bakers Cyst that had ruptured....which explained why I was hospitalized for what everyone feared was a DVT when my leg went ice cold from the knee down. That was caused by the fluid draining out of my knee.

The new job is another factory job. This time I'm on a punch press. But I also have a side job building custom AR15's in both 5.56 and 300 AAC. I'm actually waiting for the BATFE to clear my manufacturers license so I can start building controlled/registered firearms such as full auto, short barrel or rifles with permanently attached suppressors. Sadly the NFA business is so good right now that it's taking the BATFE longer than usual to get all of the paperwork approved and licenses/tax stamps mailed out.

[Ms Grace]

Glad to hear you are healing, having a bung knee is no fun at all.

[ImagineKate]

Oh wow! I had wondered where you went.  Welcome back. You were one of my favorites (last two lines in your sig hehe).

[kariann330]

Oh wow! I had wondered where you went.  Welcome back. You were one of my favorites (last two lines in your sig hehe).

Yeah those two are homage to my days in the Army. But I'm glad that people missed me cuz I missed yall too.....i am kinda saddened to see that my two favorite grumpy old ladies are no longer active though.

[stephaniec]

welcome

[Mariah]

Welcome back
Mariah

[iKate]

Yeah those two are homage to my days in the Army. But I'm glad that people missed me cuz I missed yall too.....i am kinda saddened to see that my two favorite grumpy old ladies are no longer active though.

I meant the sniper thing. I worked with police snipers and it was kinda cool. I wanted to become one but didn't stick around. Plus being a sniper was actually worse than being an operator, completely different from the military. I have a friend who was a sniper in the IDF too and he runs a ballistics class now. Watched American sniper too it was a fun movie. Right now I'm getting back into long distance shooting with my AR and a cheap Nikon scope.

[Mallory]

Welcome back.

Fellow B4, hm? When did you go down to the school house? Class 04-06 here. A Lapua? Only 4 rifles I shot during my time active, including Iraq; M24 (Remington 700), M107 (Barret .50), M4, and M110 (SASS, which I was the first to field and fire in my battalion).

So when you took that 2500 yard shot (2 miles) when did your spotter lose the trace and how far off (in hundreds of meters, because we use metric in the Army and convert to yards only with very specific optics, e.g. the M3A, PVS 10, etc) were you?

[kariann330]

Welcome back.

Fellow B4, hm? When did you go down to the school house? Class 04-06 here. A Lapua? Only 4 rifles I shot during my time active, including Iraq; M24 (Remington 700), M107 (Barret .50), M4, and M110 (SASS, which I was the first to field and fire in my battalion).

So when you took that 2500 yard shot (2 miles) when did your spotter lose the trace and how far off (in hundreds of meters, because we use metric in the Army and convert to yards only with very specific optics, e.g. the M3A, PVS 10, etc) were you?

Actually 11 Bravo. The 338 Lapua shot was done at a civilian extreme long range precision shooting range (there shortest stall is 600 yards) not in theater.....I have been shooting long range since 15 and started shooting at 13. The only platform I saw in theater was the M4 unless you want to count the multiple AKM platform rifles that I cleared and made safe. I don't know if my spotter was tracing the round or using the impacts to walk me in, but if I remember correctly I put 4 rounds left of the gong, mixed high and low, two rounds low right, round 7 and the gong was swinging.

[Mallory]

B4 is the secondary identifier you're awarded upon graduation from the USASS (19D's and any non 11 or 18 series students are barred from being awarded that ASI); without that designation you're simply a rifleman or DM.

My longest shot was 450 meters (in combat, 800-950 in school) with a field zero, kneeling offhand with no dope, while taking direct and indirect fire from 3 sides and with 4" of cover (for my ankles, hehe). It was utterly amazing to watch the scope settle with a still immaculate sight picture just in time to watch him disappear in a backwards summersault off the back of a pickup truck with a mounted RPK (that he was ripping our position up with and why I put him in the ground first).

Its incredibly refreshing to see another 11 bang bang that doesn't shy away from all that. Shield maiden for life.