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Author Topic: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)  (Read 294 times)

Offline Curtiss Cardinal

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Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« on: May 13, 2008, 12:01:00 AM »
USMC SCOUT/SNIPER SCHOOL 17, July, 1982
 NOTES ON STEALTH,
YOU MUST MOVE NO FASTER THAN THE WIND MOVES THE GRASS AND LEAVES AROUND YOU NOR MORE FREQUENTLY. SLOW AND STEADY IS INDEED YOUR WAY. MELD WITH THE EARTH SHE WILL HELP YOU IF YOU LISTEN TO HER AND FEEL HER AND HARMONIZE WITH EVERYTHING OF HER'S AROUND YOU. THIS IS HOW YOU WILL ARRIVE UNNOTICED AND REMAIN UNNOTICED WHILE YOU WAIT. PATIENCE IS THE ROOT OF STEALTH AND YOU ARE IT'S BRANCH. IT'S FRUIT IS YOUR SUCCESS. MASTER YOURSELF, LEARN TO BE AS PATIENT AS AN OYSTER AS QUIET AS THE PASSING OF TIME.
I found that in an old notebook/journal and thought it was something bowhunters could appreciate.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
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Offline flinch

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2008, 01:36:00 AM »
Semper Fi  USMC Feb 1966-Jan 1969
Good Squirrel Hunters make good snipers.

Offline Mike Orton

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 07:14:00 AM »
Curtis,
A very well thought out analysis for defeating a quarry that is visual reliant, like human beings.  Unfortunately most of the quarry that I bowhunt relies upon olfactory (nose; sense of smell) more so than the visual sight.

Although when hunting man a Marine sniper must contend with his quarry's greater intellect I find that hunting critters that smell better than a blood hound, despite being vastly inferior in the intellect department, is equally as challenging.  The honed survival instincts of God's critters relie more so on that sense of smell than that sense of sight that human beings have come to trust, almost exclusively.


Still, I like your analysis of taking advantage of the natural condition, moving with the natural flow of the wind.  There certainly is merit to your observation from a visual perspective.
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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2008, 08:25:00 AM »
Semper FI
Live everyday as it was your last.

Offline mike g

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 09:48:00 AM »
Semper Fi....  :thumbsup:  
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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2008, 10:00:00 AM »
Semper Fi,
6312, VMA 311, 11/97-11/02
As patient as an oyster....
Mike
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2008, 01:38:00 PM »
5812 3rd MAR DIV 80-86
Live everyday as it was your last.

Offline Roadkill

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2008, 03:29:00 PM »
Artillery, I 3/12 RVN, B 1/10, 3/11, IMEF  DS/DS
Semper Fi
I built the uphill sniper range in Hawthorne-I love sniper rifles, but adore long range accurate artillery!
Great piece of prose your wrote there.
Cast a long shadow-you may provide shade to someone who needs it.  Semper Fi

Offline Battle_shaft

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2008, 03:41:00 PM »
Semper Fi

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USMC: we provide the violence.

Offline hawgslayer

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2008, 04:41:00 PM »
:wavey:
HAWGSLAYER

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Keep your feathers dry and your nose in the wind and become the predator that we really are.

Offline BigRonHuntAlot

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2008, 08:12:00 PM »
:bigsmyl:    :thumbsup:   So True!
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Offline AndyTheCornbread

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2008, 08:23:00 PM »
Semper Fi
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Offline zipper bowss

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2008, 09:08:00 PM »
0351 1995-1999 A Co. 1/2
9916 School of Infantry 1998-1999

Offline Billy

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2008, 09:38:00 PM »
Carlos would be proud...
84-90 (2d CEB/HE Plt, HQ 1/12 EngOrd)
03-04 (B Co. 7th ENG)- 1345
as to the OLFACTORY - movement into the breeze will help, move as the grass relaxes....
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Offline Frank

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2008, 11:08:00 PM »
Semper Fi!

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3rd FSSG 84-85
4th Combat Eng. 86-89
Can't cheat the mountain,
Mountain got it.

Offline Battle_shaft

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2008, 09:40:00 AM »
I love it when jarheads come out of the woodwork like this.

We're everywhere....LOL

Offline Frank

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2008, 10:47:00 PM »
Battle,

This is for you.


 
Can't cheat the mountain,
Mountain got it.

Offline leatherneck

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2008, 05:19:00 PM »
WELL SAID BY ALL! Frank I carry that card in my wallet.

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Offline Dave2old

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2008, 08:04:00 PM »
Our wars, in my lifetime, have been almost always wrong. Warriors, in all lifetimes, are almost always heroes.

Semper Fi -- June 12, '68 to Feb 4, '74, HMM-163-164. dave

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Re: Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)
« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2008, 10:01:00 PM »
Semper Fi

3RD BN 10th Marines
2ND MAU
MWCS28 Det-A

1980-1987
Sgt USMC '80-'87

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