Girls und War

Even with the aid of optical instruments for calibration, test firing is still necessary to ensure shooting accuracy.

Ordinary assault rifles are easy to calibrate and can be done with the human eye.

Calibrating a sniper's gun is torture.

Even the slightest deviation will lead to huge mistakes.

High-precision shooting at a distance of 500 meters can be a disaster if the crosshairs are not calibrated properly.

Xia Shu put the gun into the calibration device, and several mechanisms immediately locked the rifle body.

Two needle-shaped instruments pointed at the sight and the crosshairs. The crosshairs were lightly touched without any noticeable movement.

It was different from Sheng's gun - hers had its crosshairs repositioned.

Because Xia Shu had already calibrated the center of gravity based on his experience, he expected that the difference between it and the machine calibration would not be too big.

Shuibian glanced at Xia Shu again.

After calibrating the sights, the machine automatically clicked the bolt twice, pulling out the empty chamber, and then blew air into the barrel to dispel the sand and dust inside.

Then the machine made a "beep" sound and the indicator light turned green, indicating that the gun had been calibrated and was ready for use.

It’s so convenient.

Xia Shu took the gun back and took a pre-aiming look. He was amazed at how amazing technology really was.

After all the new recruits in the class had calibrated their guns, Shuibian repeatedly told them (mainly Tiancai Sheng) not to touch the aim carelessly.

Then he lined them up on the firing line.

I checked the ammunition box by the water and found it was full of prepared rifle bullets.

The bullets that had not yet been loaded into the magazine were arranged in fives in the box.

Every five rifle rounds are stored in a small clip. When you use it, you pinch the bullets, pull out the clip, and press them directly into the magazine. It's very simple.

In fact, all rifle ammunition that had just been manufactured was transported in this way, and then the soldiers had to load the magazines themselves before the battle.

Shuibian glanced at the girls in the class, then said to Xia Shu, "Xia Shu, you go first."

Xia Shu didn't say anything and directly switched places with Shan Mei.

Shuibian handed her a row of five bullets. She held the bullets, pulled out the pistol, pulled out the empty magazine from the belt, and began to load.

With the magazine opening facing herself, she pressed a bullet and pushed with her thumb, and quickly loaded the bullet into the magazine.

Then she reversed the live magazine back into her bandolier and waited for orders.

Seeing her standing by the water with the gun in her hand, she looked very calm, as if she didn't need any encouragement, so I stopped talking nonsense.

Then he turned to look at the other classes on the range.

The recruits seemed clumsy and slow to reload, with one girl even dropping her bullets.

When all the recruits in the first row had loaded their guns, the sergeant blew a long whistle.

The red light in front of the shooting range turned green.

All squad leaders gave the order to "ready to fire."

Xia Shu leaned over and tilted his gun to change the magazine.

"Reload." Shuibian's voice said steadily behind her.

Xia Shu didn't take out the empty magazine, but directly took out the full magazine, used the magazine edge to push open the detent, and pushed the empty magazine out. Then he installed the full magazine and took aim.

This is a habit only veterans of the battlefield have. Because taking out an empty magazine wastes time, saving a few tenths of a second can save lives on the battlefield.

"We're ready." Xia Shu said in a steady voice.

There was no order to fire from the waterside, and she was also waiting for an order.

When all the recruits were ready, the sergeant blew the second long whistle.

"Start shooting." The voice by the water remained steady.

Squad leaders will try not to put pressure on the recruits.

Xia Shu quickly flipped the safety, pulled the bolt, and pushed forward.

With a "click", the sound of the bullet being loaded was crisp and pleasant.

Xia Shu's heartbeat also accelerated at this time.

More than ten years.

I haven't felt this way in more than ten years.

How long had it been since she actually touched a gun?

The shooting experience in holographic games or simulated gun toys in the past is completely different from the real shooting experience.

The smell of rust and earth.

This is the real taste of war.

She aimed at the target fifty meters away but did not fire.

She is waiting.

After a while, someone finally fired the first shot.

"Bang!" The sound was extremely loud and shocking.

The next moment, there were two consecutive "bang! bang!" sounds, as if a girl was frightened and had a sudden outburst.

Then there was a small silence.

It seemed like the girls were still savoring the sound of the gunshot.

Then there was a burst of dense and continuous gunfire.

It is this feeling.

The feeling of target practice.

Xia Shu gradually smelled the smell of gunpowder.

She chuckled.

When shooting, don't be the first one to shoot.

In the dense sound of gunfire, the shooting accuracy will be higher.

She aimed at the target fifty meters away, feeling a little unhappy.

It’s too close. It’s really too close.

Although there is no scope, it is just naked aiming from the machine position——

Xia Shu was also confident that he could hit any target within 500 meters.

At a distance of 500 to 1,000 meters, she can hit the center of the target more than 90% of the time without a scope.

Give her a high-power scope, and her hit rate will be over 80% for a stationary target between one thousand and two thousand meters away.

Beyond two thousand meters it depends on luck.

As for moving targets, within 500 meters, three shots will hit the target; between 500 and 1,000 meters, it depends on luck; above 1,000 meters, you have to draw a prize.

In this world, no sniper dares to say that he can hit a moving target more than a thousand meters away.

Even within a thousand meters, the accuracy of shooting at moving targets depends on the target's anti-sniper level.

However, no matter how skilled a soldier is, if he walks within the 500-meter range of a sniper, he will die.

So asking Xia Shu to shoot at a fifty-meter stationary target is like asking a gymnast to use the fitness equipment in the community.

Waste of talent.

Xia Shu shook his head and put the butt of the gun against his cheek.

Then he calmly pulled the trigger.

36. About aiming

In fact, the force required to pull the trigger is much smaller than people usually think.

Although the trigger force of different guns varies greatly depending on the manufacturing process of the guns.

But it will definitely not exceed the strength of a person peeling a banana.

This is also why guns are prone to accidental discharges.

One problem that recruits need to pay attention to is that when aiming, the crosshairs have not yet stabilized and the trigger is accidentally pulled out.

This caused a large portion of the recruits to miss the target.

And the sound of gunfire is likely to scare them.

After all, this kind of experience is the first time for them.

The squad leaders' expressions when they looked at the targets were also a bit ugly.

Because they also secretly have a sense of competition. Thinking about the first target practice, they always want to show off the best simulated shooting results among the recruits in the class.

Among this group of recruits, besides Xia Shu, there are also many experts in shooting games who have always achieved full marks in simulations.

But once they got to the shooting range and picked up real guns, they all failed.

They were shooting at chest ring targets.

That is, on a human-shaped target paper, draw several concentric circles on the chest area.

军队靶纸的积分只有“6/7/8/9/10”五个环位。

Anything outside the five rings is considered a miss.

Heads do not count.

It's located at the very top of the chest and is only the size of a fist.

By taking close-up photos of the target paper, you can clearly see where the bullet holes appear, which makes it easier to make corrections next time you shoot.

But new recruits always overcorrect.

After firing five bullets, the screen will show how many rings you have hit in total.

Thirty rings is passing, thirty-five to forty-five is good, and forty-five and above is excellent.

After a few minutes, the gunfire gradually stopped.

The scores on the target are generally between thirty and forty rings.

There is only one, fifty rings.

And a close-up of the target shows that all five bullets hit almost one point in the center.

All the squad leaders looked towards the water.

He licked his lips by the water and revealed a smug smile that he couldn't help.

Are you stupid, sisters? I have Xia Shu!

I vaguely heard someone curse, "Fuck."

After Xia Shu had used up all his bullets, he picked up the empty gun that fell on the ground and put it into his bullet bag.

He picked up a few bullet shells and put them in his pocket.

Then lie there and wait for orders.

After everyone finished fighting, Shuibian ordered her to stand up.

After that it was free shooting time. The squad leader first asked each recruit to fire five shots.

Shan Mei and Ning, who were at the back of Class A, both had mediocre marksmanship.

This made the other squad leaders breathe a sigh of relief.

When it was Sheng's turn, Shuibian immediately became alert.

"Just play it right. Don't mess around." She said nervously to the genius.