RE: Bringing out the big guns

It's not the bullet one sees folks, it's the bullet-trace...

The night i saw the bullets...
I remember as if it were yesterday, even though more than 20 years have passed, when I was in the army.
A truck drove us to the parking lot of the shooting range, and we walked for kilometers to the shooting position, in full military gear, on uneven and dusty terrain...
A helmet on my head, a backpack on my back, an M70 AB2 rifle (a Yu copy of the AK47, with a collapsible stock) over my shoulder, and a bag full of ammunition hits my thighs. 3 full cartridges...
It's dark. that's why they gave us glowing bullets.
In a magazine that holds 30 bullets, we packed 3 then 1... 3 ordinary, one luminous...
Yes, let's go to night target shooting at 100, 200 and 300 meters...
They arrange us in the trenches and show us where our knockdown targets are.
The task is as follows: with single fire, the first bullet being illuminated, follow the path to the target and shoot down the target with single fire.
Both the one at 100, as well as those at 200 and 300 meters.
It shouldn't be difficult... But right before the command to fire, they give us the command "Battle poisons".
Put gas masks on the face.
Helmets are already enough trouble for shooting, and the gas mask totally kills the hope that our shooting will be accurate and successful.
But still, by the end of the first round, almost all the targets had been shot down.
We took off our masks with the command "Poison passed".
The command followed, "Burst fire, free target shooting at 300m".
Oh, what a firework the trajectory of the luminous bullets was, 12 of us at the same moment thunder from long pipes and send light beams into the field at 300m...

I understand you when you say that you can't wait to go shooting... Snd I would if I were you...
I don't like weapons, I know what their purpose is, a pile of metal... But the feeling of hitting a target, along with the sound of thunder and the smell of gunpowder, is what raises adrenaline...