US Soldier Explains Why He Uses a Rifle Stock to Shoot Photographs

[Muzzle]

http://i.gizmodo.com/5142970/us-sold...yline=true&s=i

Pointing a long lens mounted on a stock is indeed a recipe for getting shot if you're not careful. In fact in training at Fort McCoy, Wi., I was "shot" by Soldiers on practice missions.

I was not where they expected me to be... i.e. mixed in with the opposition who happened to be shooting at them at the time. Thus, I was "shot" at with blanks during the training even though I was in uniform. They *saw* what they assumed was a rifle in an area where bad guys were shooting at them..

Links to 2 flicker albums at the end of 2 Para and The Afgan National Army

[Turkey]

I have a dim memory of a photographer being shot somewhere[Norn iron?] while using a Zenith photosniper mounted camera.
The bullet passed thru the camera and hit him below the eye..................