Well I'm a long way from that distinguished badge but I'm learning. Mainly learning I suck at the standing position with a whopping 38. We did it last and by that time I was soaked to the bone with the heat and humidity with my wet feet sloshing around in my boots (should have taken them off). Combining that with no breakfast and not really enough sleep the night before, I was pretty well done in. I just read Mr Kepler's thoughts on standing in Jeff's post. Thanks for the advise. There is an Appleseed starting here soon, I'll try that out.
The best thing I did was build a lot of confidence in my rifle. As I fired the slow prone I finally started hitting 10's and X's and I came into my groove and wound up with a better score on the rapid prone percentage wise, than on slow prone as a result. I beat all the other Garands but those black rifles do shoot well. The winner was the only one there that was a serious shooter with the A2, stool, jacket, etc. The rest of us were just playing around. John Fisher (JohnF on Jouster) built my M1 and I can't say enough good things about it. It's like a brand new one.
I had no idea I was being photographed until I saw it on the web earlier.
Link to todays shoot with more pictures