Something I wrote in the Corps(bowhunter appropriate)

[Curtiss Cardinal]

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.

[flinch]

Semper Fi  USMC Feb 1966-Jan 1969
Good Squirrel Hunters make good snipers.

[Mike Orton]

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.

[nonose]

Semper FI

[mike g]

Semper Fi....    
0351 C 1/7 B 1/5 75-78

[elk ninja]

Semper Fi,
6312, VMA 311, 11/97-11/02
As patient as an oyster....
Mike

[nonose]

5812 3rd MAR DIV 80-86

[Roadkill]

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.

[Battle_shaft]

Semper Fi

Comm 2841 4th AAVbn B-

90-96

USMC: we provide the violence.

[hawgslayer]

[BigRonHuntAlot]

      So True!

[AndyTheCornbread]

Semper Fi
0352
1993 - 2002

[zipper bowss]

0351 1995-1999 A Co. 1/2
9916 School of Infantry 1998-1999

[Billy]

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....

[Frank]

Semper Fi!

1st Recon 82-84
3rd FSSG 84-85
4th Combat Eng. 86-89

[Battle_shaft]

I love it when jarheads come out of the woodwork like this.

We're everywhere....LOL

[Frank]

Battle,

This is for you.

[leatherneck]

WELL SAID BY ALL! Frank I carry that card in my wallet.

0311 1/6 HARD! 87 to 91

[Dave2old]

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

[MikeBurns]

Semper Fi

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

1980-1987