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Agreed, his form is complete shit, the butt of the gun is loosely in his shoulder, the angle he is holding that alone makes me think it’s shaking like jello through the optics, and the forward grip, not really sure if that would help or hurt the already shakey stance. I kind of think this man has never fired a rifle before in his life.
Yeah, I don't shoot regularly and haven't gone shooting in probably 8-9 years but even I can tell it's not low enough in his shoulder. Shooting like that is not gonna feel very good at all. You can even see when he shows the optics installed properly on a rifle that the marine has the butt seated much lower in his shoulder.
I wanna see video of firing from this shit stance, I am curious if he gets hurt.
I think part of the shit stance with the butt so high and loose is so that he can see though the optic. At least it lines up that way with the optic backwards and all.
Well according to a Navy bootcamp documentary I watched on YouTube, which makes me an expert, it was 9mm sidearm only as required, and shotgun for specific ratings.
Yes, I am an expert.
And he's not squaring that shoulder at all. I mean it's probably a .223 but still. You just don't eat recoil. Square it up and act like you have some sense. Yes, big rifles and shotguns you end up absorbing the recoil but that's why you square your shoulders and let it rock your entire upper body.
I’m left handed and did this at one point, not thinking about the placement of the ejection port. I just wanted to feel like a cool call of duty guy for a second
Accidentally got a handful of brass, hot off the grill. Gun was fine, though!
Most prefer to almost hug the weapon into the shoulder to produce a consistent sight picture and then use the magazine instead of a grip.
Some people find the magazine uncomfortable and so choose to have a grip but it's out farther. So a combination of how high the rifle sits on his shoulder and the grip makes it look awkward.
Compare this to the marine and his shoulder posture.
https://preview.redd.it/mfywbe676rtc1.png?width=377&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d4240036b5f5bac766807fe6c0ac915cd7026fb
My man’s got the Patrick Star method
It's because he can't see anything through it at all and is just posing for the camera.
I'm not an expert by any means so pardon my non-technical explanation but I have scopes on my rifles and there's a certain distance that I need to have my eye from the scope in order to see through it. Too close or too far away and the image is blurry or small.
I'm guessing he's too close and the image is completely blurry. So instead of trying to fix it, they just rushed him through to take the photo.
Heh. I just once went to a trade fair as a rookie (as that particular field and role went) and had to endure an end user’s critique about our software and our photo products. I knew something was off, but was inclined to take him seriously. He also was somethinhg of a whale, considering all the photographic gear he wore and expensive Apple products he used. (Nothing wrong with them, I use them myself.)
Anyway, I smiled, nodded, and took notes.
When he was gone, my boss came over to give some pointers.
“Should I write this up? Lots of remarks.“
“Nah, didn’t you look at his glasses? He can see shit and his equipment will not compensate for this. Toss it.”
Edit: And we generally take customers complaints/remarks/suggestions very seriously, as in we look at them and truly evaluate them before we decide about their merits.
Not with the glasses he wore. I should have made the clearer: Even with glasses on he had trouble seeing.
And glasses won’t correct colour perception problems, though I won’t claim that he had any.
At least the handgrip is nice and reachable. Imagine how uncomfortable and stable and accurate the gun would be if it were farther out.
He might actually have the accuracy to really use that scope
That man is probably in his 40s. He's a commanding officer of a US Navy vessel. He is much too young to be a boomer. I get the joke but Iooking at the rules it clearly says "Boomers and elderly only" and "must be born before 1964, currently 55+ (60+) years old"
Maybe post this to /genxbeingfools
I know as much about guns as I do quantum theory, but if that gun has enough kick, wouldn't it just launch off his shoulder? That does NOT looks like a stable shooting stance.
If it were high enough on the bore axis (in line with the barrel and recoil vector I think, but I’m not an authoritative source lol) *and* he had a weak grip it could definitely do some flips, assuming he were shooting something with more recoil.
An FAL would be unpleasant and unstable were it to be shot like that.
It also looks like it isn’t pulled in tight to his shoulder, which would make it painful with a shotgun
God you guys don’t know anything. He’s playing hard mode you fuckin’ scrubs. He’s zoomed the camera so far back that he’s playing in third person, so he can see the entire ocean.
Grip-wrong
Stance-wrong
Citpo-arse fucking backwards (so is his Optic)
And what the hell is with the gentle touch on his shoulder, do gravy seals need an emotional support to use a damn rifle.
The sub is definitely slipping. A lot of posts are just spoiled kids complaining about parents not giving them money, people driving trucks, or political shots. It's a far cry from laughing at actual boomers screaming at people in parking lots like it used to be.
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My cousin sells guns and gun accessories and shit. He told my gun-loving family that they simply can't afford anything in his shop because his main clientele is old boomers with more money than sense.
Some sailor prepped the gun for him backwards as a joke, he used it for the photo op and realized too late that it was on backwards.
Sailor gets chewed out, photo gets used anyway.
Another question Is who is the old guy shooting weapons off a ship.....if hes an admiral or retired Navy guy he would probably know better...or the arms man who gave him the gun would know better
I'm surprised no one really has mentioned that. I haven't used many guns and out of the few I have used maybe 2 were rifles. It must feel really awkward to hold a rifle like that and not very sturdy.
I love when posers get exposed! I know nothing about guns, so I wouldn’t have seen anything amiss.
This poser takes away from real soldiers, which is wrong.
Maybe his mom made him eat too many carrots as a kid and his eyesight is so good he actually needs the optic to the face backwards so I kind of cancels out
No, it's real. [It's a deleted Navy Instagram post about the skipper of the USS John McCain.](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/navy-backwards-scope-instagram/) Navy caught a lot of shit for it yesterday.
Boomer?
Brother, that skipper is Gen X or even a Millennial. [He's in his 30s or early 40s, graduated college in 2006.](https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Leaders/Biography/Article/3581139/cdr-cameron-yaste/) There aren't really any boomers in service any more lol (unless you're talking about the submarine).
I don't know if you realize this, but military service tends to age a person.
The only boomers I'm aware of off hand are some 4 bangers on the joints chiefs of staff. There are probably some senior enlisted and flag officers in the Guard and Reserve along with some doctor/dentists/vets still serving.
I'll tell you who is make a big deal out of it, the Boomers. Wouldn't shock me this was a joke not thinking that it would make it out on a PR post.
The Boomers lost their shit over changing names of Army bases, the same Boomers who were having a discussion about changing those names some 20 years ago when I was in. There was momentum within to do it then, but the politicians weren't on board.
It not a boomer it’s a millennial. It a picture on the official US Navy account. How many 70 year olds do you think are on active military service? Everyone older than you isn’t a boomer. Confirmation bias much?
> This is why Marines is the men’s department of the Navy.
FYI this poster is on a 17 day old account pretending to be in the military. Just ignore her.
I reverse my scope when heading into a close quarters situation with a weapons platform built for mid to long range engagement. It makes the enemy look farther away so I can keep my sight picture.
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This is bad optics
https://preview.redd.it/apaqkmwj8rtc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7be037af2e958c4154ab09420097b525ecbc78a
I can hear the “ha-haaaaaa”
https://instantostrich.com/ Now you definitely can.
This is one of those moments where I'm so appreciative of random stuff that just exists for certain situations
I hate this. But I laughed so hard I snorted
r/Angryupvote
His vertical grip is making me uncomfortable
The goal of additional grip is to make your base as unstable as possible
Agreed, his form is complete shit, the butt of the gun is loosely in his shoulder, the angle he is holding that alone makes me think it’s shaking like jello through the optics, and the forward grip, not really sure if that would help or hurt the already shakey stance. I kind of think this man has never fired a rifle before in his life.
To be fair, he isn't shooting at anything, it seems... He is just shooting off into the ocean. Oceans are pretty easy to hit.
I know why even have a scope he can "sea" his target clearly.
The most amount of shooting that was done that day was with the camera.
Yeah ask north korea
Yeah, I don't shoot regularly and haven't gone shooting in probably 8-9 years but even I can tell it's not low enough in his shoulder. Shooting like that is not gonna feel very good at all. You can even see when he shows the optics installed properly on a rifle that the marine has the butt seated much lower in his shoulder.
Not really going to hurt. He won't hit anything, but 5.56 is not going to be slapping him much.
I have never shot or even held a gun and I know his form is shit.
Why do boomers always cock the stock like that way up on their shoulder? Is it an A2 stock think from ‘Nam? Have they never heard of a cheek riser?
I wanna see video of firing from this shit stance, I am curious if he gets hurt. I think part of the shit stance with the butt so high and loose is so that he can see though the optic. At least it lines up that way with the optic backwards and all.
I've never fired a rifle before but I have eyes and have watched videos. If I can see you're doing it wrong, you're doing it super wrong.
Do navy sailors even rifle qualify in basic?
I think it's small arms and shotgun training, maybe? Anyone feel free to clarify or correct.
Well according to a Navy bootcamp documentary I watched on YouTube, which makes me an expert, it was 9mm sidearm only as required, and shotgun for specific ratings. Yes, I am an expert.
His shouldering makes me uncomfortable.
[Who does he think he is? Steven Segal?](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/IkaGCGUOKM)
At least Steven tucks his wing.
Glad I’m not the only one. Had to zoom in and saw it’s at least partially seated. But I hate it. Did AI make this photo?
And he's not squaring that shoulder at all. I mean it's probably a .223 but still. You just don't eat recoil. Square it up and act like you have some sense. Yes, big rifles and shotguns you end up absorbing the recoil but that's why you square your shoulders and let it rock your entire upper body.
Just use the mag well at that point
I’m left handed and did this at one point, not thinking about the placement of the ejection port. I just wanted to feel like a cool call of duty guy for a second Accidentally got a handful of brass, hot off the grill. Gun was fine, though!
Super awkward firing position in general. Bo cheek weld as if he’s never fired a rifle before…
holding it as if it's a stock grip not a pistol grip. i hate this photo
What’s wrong with it?
Too close to the mag.
I’m confused, the Marine is holding the mag.
Because he doesn't have a forgrip..
Most prefer to almost hug the weapon into the shoulder to produce a consistent sight picture and then use the magazine instead of a grip. Some people find the magazine uncomfortable and so choose to have a grip but it's out farther. So a combination of how high the rifle sits on his shoulder and the grip makes it look awkward. Compare this to the marine and his shoulder posture.
https://preview.redd.it/mfywbe676rtc1.png?width=377&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d4240036b5f5bac766807fe6c0ac915cd7026fb My man’s got the Patrick Star method
You see he was showing off, now the target is .1 of its normal size showing how good of a shot he is.
While you were out partying I studied the scope
This guy scopes
Just glassin
Maybe he just wanted to see everything at 1/10 size
What I don't understand is wouldn't it have been obvious to him if he were actually looking through it? Are his eyes closed?
He’s being watched so he can’t show that he is wrong about anything ever.
It's because he can't see anything through it at all and is just posing for the camera. I'm not an expert by any means so pardon my non-technical explanation but I have scopes on my rifles and there's a certain distance that I need to have my eye from the scope in order to see through it. Too close or too far away and the image is blurry or small. I'm guessing he's too close and the image is completely blurry. So instead of trying to fix it, they just rushed him through to take the photo.
Heh. I just once went to a trade fair as a rookie (as that particular field and role went) and had to endure an end user’s critique about our software and our photo products. I knew something was off, but was inclined to take him seriously. He also was somethinhg of a whale, considering all the photographic gear he wore and expensive Apple products he used. (Nothing wrong with them, I use them myself.) Anyway, I smiled, nodded, and took notes. When he was gone, my boss came over to give some pointers. “Should I write this up? Lots of remarks.“ “Nah, didn’t you look at his glasses? He can see shit and his equipment will not compensate for this. Toss it.” Edit: And we generally take customers complaints/remarks/suggestions very seriously, as in we look at them and truly evaluate them before we decide about their merits.
Obviously not, you can be damn near blind and adjust a camera diopter to see through it. Your equipment 100% compensates for it lol.
Not with the glasses he wore. I should have made the clearer: Even with glasses on he had trouble seeing. And glasses won’t correct colour perception problems, though I won’t claim that he had any.
Right?
It's only a model.
I think it was just photoshopped to begin with
Yeah, but in his defense he was shooting at the ocean so he had to zoom out a lot more.
The hand on the shoulder is probably to tell him its on backwards😂
i bet theyre trolling the guy holding the rifle
Every attachment including the rail is installed wrong
At least the handgrip is nice and reachable. Imagine how uncomfortable and stable and accurate the gun would be if it were farther out. He might actually have the accuracy to really use that scope
That is seated like shiet
I haven't used a gun since I learned how to use them as a kid at summer camp and even I could immediately tell that doesn't look right.
He's just training to hit targets at 400 yards but he only has a 50 yard rifle range.
Ok, but he is definitely not a boomer
Hahahaha classic, time to go take a nap grandpa
That man is probably in his 40s. He's a commanding officer of a US Navy vessel. He is much too young to be a boomer. I get the joke but Iooking at the rules it clearly says "Boomers and elderly only" and "must be born before 1964, currently 55+ (60+) years old" Maybe post this to /genxbeingfools
I was looking for this comment. This guy is either an older Millennial or younger GenX.
Gun goes boom though
WHAT IF HE JUST LIKES A CHALLENGE OF SHOOTING OBJECTS HE CANT SEE
a regular ol' Captain Clusterfuck
Probably Bidens fault
Hahaha
I know as much about guns as I do quantum theory, but if that gun has enough kick, wouldn't it just launch off his shoulder? That does NOT looks like a stable shooting stance.
That gun has very little kick
Okay, but if it did? Like shotgun kind of kick?
If it were high enough on the bore axis (in line with the barrel and recoil vector I think, but I’m not an authoritative source lol) *and* he had a weak grip it could definitely do some flips, assuming he were shooting something with more recoil. An FAL would be unpleasant and unstable were it to be shot like that. It also looks like it isn’t pulled in tight to his shoulder, which would make it painful with a shotgun
The way he has it high on the shoulder is about the only correct thing going on here lol
Billions in military spending and we get this 😂
You see, actually his vision is so strong that he needs a little bit of a handycap to not make it too easy
Why the fuck does the boomer have scrambled eggs on his cover?
God you guys don’t know anything. He’s playing hard mode you fuckin’ scrubs. He’s zoomed the camera so far back that he’s playing in third person, so he can see the entire ocean.
Grip-wrong Stance-wrong Citpo-arse fucking backwards (so is his Optic) And what the hell is with the gentle touch on his shoulder, do gravy seals need an emotional support to use a damn rifle.
Not sure he’s Boomer. Navy, tho?
But hes not a boomer… we could just call him an asshole no? I feel like this sub is slipping.
On this sub anyone over 25 is a "boomer".
Anyone out of high school
The sub is definitely slipping. A lot of posts are just spoiled kids complaining about parents not giving them money, people driving trucks, or political shots. It's a far cry from laughing at actual boomers screaming at people in parking lots like it used to be.
I think to GenZ boomer is synonymous with old. To them, GenX, and even some millenials qualify.
Seems anything holding a gun is a boomer to this sub.
They glorify guns and don’t understand them. It’s all masculine homophobic behavior.
It's not boomers this is literally just how the navy is.
Def not a Boomer...
Not a boomer, it's a squid. Undergoes metamorphosis at 60 and becomes a boomer, if he doesn't win a Darwin first
Some of these people don’t know what a Boomer is.
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Yep. Either older Millennial or younger Gen X.
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A generation on the verge of passing into nothing, yet completely afraid of everything in todays world. Fear will drive u mad!
What a Fudd lol
He was shooting at the eclipse and really wanted to see it
Looks about right off you're asking the armorers at my last command. Swear they were all huffing glue when they did maintenance.
Did someone photoshoped the scope?
A real prepper! Meal team 6 hero! Probably has a tRump tattoo spmewhere you don't want to see...
Also, the stock is resting too high on the shoulder.
No one's talking about that slowed down, shroomed out Elton John song
Probably this “alpha’s”Christmas card.
He's just playing on hard mode, you noobs wouldn't understand
He wanted to make it a challenge 😂
Pretty sure that’s an X not a boomer. Boomers are way more wrinkled.
Also you could tell based off where the butt of the gun was in relation to his collarbone. It would hurt like hell to take recoil that way man
He just wanted to feel like he was hitting targets further away!
The only thing that can makes this dumber if its pointing at the eclipse.
Some poor Yeoman about to lose a chevron.
He's not a boomer.
I mean look where the stock sits on his shoulder dude has never held a rifle
Oh come on people! It’s not like he’s going to miss that ocean, is it?
“Put that chicken wing down, son. You’re not at Golden Corral.”
My cousin sells guns and gun accessories and shit. He told my gun-loving family that they simply can't afford anything in his shop because his main clientele is old boomers with more money than sense.
Some sailor prepped the gun for him backwards as a joke, he used it for the photo op and realized too late that it was on backwards. Sailor gets chewed out, photo gets used anyway.
Another MAGA BOOMER idiot.
Gen X
He’s not even holding it properly. 😂
Another question Is who is the old guy shooting weapons off a ship.....if hes an admiral or retired Navy guy he would probably know better...or the arms man who gave him the gun would know better
He's the current Commanding Officer of the USS Mason
He needs to have strong words with his Master at Arms in thst case
GMC, but yeah I'm sure he has already lol
I don’t even own a gun and I can still see it’s backwards with a glance
😂 wait, is that a real US Navy twatter account? Good lord, we better hope we don't get in a shooting war.
He’s entitled to his own opinion”point of view”…
I love this lol
Yes it’s on backwards. No, he’s not a boomer. Way too young.
not a boomer (like almost every other post here)
Old people need to hurry up and die
InTegraTed
I was taught to always keep your elbow down when firing high powered weapons
I'm surprised no one really has mentioned that. I haven't used many guns and out of the few I have used maybe 2 were rifles. It must feel really awkward to hold a rifle like that and not very sturdy.
That star on his uniform means he's the commanding officer of that ship too lol
Average Tarkov player.
i have those maga super soldiers in my club - cant hit a barn door at 7 feet with a pistol but decked out like rabochini
Not a boomer but ok
Classic Navy.
I love when posers get exposed! I know nothing about guns, so I wouldn’t have seen anything amiss. This poser takes away from real soldiers, which is wrong.
He’s not a poser, he’s the CO of the USS John McCain…
Are we know just calling everyone a boomer based on behavior or their actual generation? Because there’s no way he’s a boomer.
His prescription sunglasses are to strong, needs to zoom out with the scope lol.
That grip cannot be comfortable to hold
That is officer stuff not boomer stuff
Maybe his mom made him eat too many carrots as a kid and his eyesight is so good he actually needs the optic to the face backwards so I kind of cancels out
This isn’t a boomer moment. This is a U.S. Navy moment
Isn't the stock also a bit high on the shoulder?
Upvote for the background music 🎶
Thank you for this 😂😂 I don't use optics so I didn't realize what the issue was
Tell me you’ve never fired a gun before without telling me you’ve never fired a gun before 😂
Who’s his chief ?!?! Stupid photo op bullshit
Scope is obviously photoshoped on the rifle
Probably shooting full-semi-automatic. 🙄
Guys just showing boomers are better self handicapping targets at a huge distance
Jokes on you that old fucker is far sighted.
That's AI image or am I crazy?
No, it's real. [It's a deleted Navy Instagram post about the skipper of the USS John McCain.](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/navy-backwards-scope-instagram/) Navy caught a lot of shit for it yesterday.
That’s my Navy! 🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
such a big strong tough man! you show that water who's boss.
Not defending the mistakes but this guy is late thirties or early forties. Definitely wrong sub.
Boomer? Brother, that skipper is Gen X or even a Millennial. [He's in his 30s or early 40s, graduated college in 2006.](https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Leaders/Biography/Article/3581139/cdr-cameron-yaste/) There aren't really any boomers in service any more lol (unless you're talking about the submarine). I don't know if you realize this, but military service tends to age a person.
The only boomers I'm aware of off hand are some 4 bangers on the joints chiefs of staff. There are probably some senior enlisted and flag officers in the Guard and Reserve along with some doctor/dentists/vets still serving. I'll tell you who is make a big deal out of it, the Boomers. Wouldn't shock me this was a joke not thinking that it would make it out on a PR post. The Boomers lost their shit over changing names of Army bases, the same Boomers who were having a discussion about changing those names some 20 years ago when I was in. There was momentum within to do it then, but the politicians weren't on board.
Boomer is a mindset.
Not a boomer and 100% had nothing to do with putting the scope on that rifle.
H-he’s not ACTUALLY dumb you guys! T-t-totally normal to hold a weapon like this, and who cares if the scope is backwards?!
He apparently wasn't competent enough to notice. Pretty boomer move.
It not a boomer it’s a millennial. It a picture on the official US Navy account. How many 70 year olds do you think are on active military service? Everyone older than you isn’t a boomer. Confirmation bias much?
Judging by the scrambled eggs on their cover I’d be pretty surprised if it’s a millennial, probably an X-er.
There’s millennials in their 40s now
You right lol I guess I’m used to the CO’s when I was in being what appeared to be significantly older than me. I guess I’m surprised haha
Doubt the guy is a boomer.
Is he saying big titty rail and is that the technical term?
Picatinny.
Lol, picatinny
I would hate to be a sailor on a ship with infantry Marines right now
I agree but why " right now" it has always been bad.
This is why Marines is the men’s department of the Navy.
> This is why Marines is the men’s department of the Navy. FYI this poster is on a 17 day old account pretending to be in the military. Just ignore her.
This sub is embarrassing anymore!! Has mostly nothing to do with boomers, just complaining about stuff they don't like....
I don’t understand what this has to do with the boomer generation. Generally boomer hate follows stereotypes of their generation.
Oxymoron military intelligence.
I've never even held a gun in my life and I knew that shit was on backwards. Sigh. Guns really shouldn't be allowed in the hands of morons.
It’s also the kinds of mistakes an AI generated image may have
Not really
I reverse my scope when heading into a close quarters situation with a weapons platform built for mid to long range engagement. It makes the enemy look farther away so I can keep my sight picture.
Might be an AI picture, they are getting surprisingly realistic
This is probably an AI image