S2H Winter Rifle Course Observations/lessons

[2Stamp]

I can see how if you need to wear those clothes the next day that makes sense, why you try and dry em out

Read the below link. Pay attention to the concepts and the situations mentioned in the material. Falling into a creek while crossing is an example. You may not have until the next day.

The Darkroom: A Navy SEAL Rewarming Drill | SITKA Gear

"The deal is, if you spend enough time out there, you’re going to get wet on a brutally cold day. And how are you going to keep warm? How are you going to get everything dry and keep going?” - Big Game Product Manager John Barklow<br />

www.sitkagear.com

 

[northernlandgar]

Real field rifles should have a backup sighting system. There just really isn’t a good reason to bot have well designed aperture sights on the gun, or stored in the gun- without an aiming device rifles are useless. Scopes do hard break, they do get iced/fogged up on the outside, pouring rain renders them functionally dead, etc, etc. As well, states are starting to limit seasons with irons only…

A couple of us are working on proper aperture setups for rifles. There were two other, backup style options there as well.
That bottom picture is a full on aperture setup, and works extremely well. In the field with a highly practiced and skilled person, if they can see it with their naked eye, they can hit it.

10 rounds, prone off a pack, rapid fire. The taped spots are getting it zeroed. So far that rifle/ammo and those sights are averaging 1.5 to 2 MOA for ten round groups.
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I'm very curious about the iron sight setups used here. Are you using NECG sights? Or is there a better way to have aperture sights that don't conflict with the scope? Thanks for the writeup.

 

[Okie_Poke]

Read the below link. Pay attention to the concepts and the situations mentioned in the material. Falling into a creek while crossing is an example. You may not have until the next day.

The Darkroom: A Navy SEAL Rewarming Drill | SITKA Gear

"The deal is, if you spend enough time out there, you’re going to get wet on a brutally cold day. And how are you going to keep warm? How are you going to get everything dry and keep going?” - Big Game Product Manager John Barklow<br />

www.sitkagear.com

"It doesn't have to be fun to be fun." That's one way of putting it. Interestng read.

 

[stan_wa]

Read the below link.

Interesting in this article how they like synthetic and form was such a advocate for down

 

[2Stamp]

Interesting in this article how they like synthetic and form was such a advocate for down

I agree, It is. But like I said, pay attention to the scenarios and the concepts. That's what's important about, and why the rewarming drill and your clothing selection is important.

 

[Formidilosus]

Interesting in this article how they like synthetic and form was such a advocate for down

I’m not an advocate for anything except doing your own training/testing. I relay what is seen.

The difference between that article lies in the situation and environment. There is a large difference between 20-30 sets of gear being used every 6 months over and over and over, shredding and tearing, etc. As well, down from 20-25 years ago isn’t the same as some down available now. Thin, untreated down wets out completely- some treated down, and maybe some high quality untreated down doesn’t.