What's your 'rapid fire' technique?

[Gaz]

Squeeze trigger, let rifle recoil, re-establish sight picture, repeat. By "rapid fire" I go with the British military definition of 30ish rds/min for a semi-auto and no more than 15 rounds/minute when shooting the No.4 at Bisley - with a nod to the range regulations!

For breathing I try to take shallow breaths between shots and fire with empty-ish lungs. Usually I forget to do this, but then I'm pretty bad at remembering to breathe regularly on the firing point anyway.

[Chuck]

froggy, we practice that in various positions: low ready, "Heathrow Carry (for MP5) "port arms" etc.. you can get some seriously good times and accuracy.

Had a video somewhere of us timing each other a while back.

[froggy]

Re- chuck

What is the "heathrow carry" please ?
At the "ready mode", ie : round chambered + safety off, we use only 2 stances "contact" , I guess what you call "low ready" that requires just a short elevation to sight the target and "engagement" (2 variations).

I'd love to go for a W-E ... If only AZ was not so far away

[Chuck]

Froggy, :lol: :lol: It's that sideways carry the police use to carry their MP5's - especially in Heathrow, hence the name we concocted .

I use it on the MP5 as it suits my wee arms and makes reaching the safety with my thumb easier.

For carbine practice as I said we have low ready - shouldered but muzzle down ready for quick engagement as in say investigating a building,, relaxed alert ("broken wrist carry" with muzzle down) and a "port arms" style - typical positions really. All have safety ON at start of drill.

We then do a 90 degree turn to left / turn to right and a 180 degree turn to left / right and of course transition to kneeling and prone.

Send me your email by PM and I'll copy some video to you. Chuck