My father taught me how to shoot when I was very young, 5 or 6 years old. Flinching and closing my eyes or jerking the trigger when I shoot is as foreign to me as it is not to do it for most people. I can remember my father balancing a dime or a nickel on the barrel of the rifle and having me practice squeezing the trigger and dry firing the rifle without dislodging the balanced coin. My father was an unbelievable shot well before he joined the Army where he qualified as an expert. My uncles used to tell me about my father shooting nickels and dimes tossed in the air with his Winchester Model 74 .22lr when he was a kid. They said he could shoot glass marbles tossed in the air or place them on the mouth of a coke bottle and bust them and drop the shards into the coke bottle. I saw him in his mid to late forties shoot pecans out of the air with a little Browning .22lr that he had never shot before. He was wearing eyeglasses at the time and said his eyes weren't what they used to be, but he still made the shots. I watched him sight in a used but new to him Remington 7400 .243 win. that I bought him at a gun show. He rested against a telephone poll and put three shots on target that I could cover with a dime using open sights. He adjusted his sights, fired three more and was sighted in. I'd seen him shoot shotguns while duck hunting, but I must have been 12 or 13 before I ever saw him shoot a rifle and was absolutely amazed. He is 78 today, it's his birthday, he is bed ridden with dementia unable to even feed himself, it's just one of the side effects he has suffered from being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam in 68-69.

It's really crazy how many similarities there are in the way they taught shooting positions back then when compared to now. I guess solid fundamentals remain the same for the most part.

You have to love those old training films.

This film is the product of a time when marksmanship (as well as many other skills) were taught based on an objective, empirical approach, rather than the subjective, theoretical teaching we see today. That's why old instructional films are characteristically easier to understand than newer ones, and that's why those who learned the "old way" were able to master their skills instead of merely imitating someone else with varying degrees of success.

The narrator is Dan Tobin, born in Cincinnati Ohio. He had a long Hollywood career before the war and after. His most famous was as "Gentleman Dan" on the "Andy Griffith Show" he lured Barney into the cell and ended up with Barneys gun and keys.

Thumbs up if you reached for your " hollow shoulder"!

This was actually very helpful for me. In old times, the military knew how to shoot!

this is quite helpful for reenactors with little to no practice using a rifle

Love this videos I’m learning so much ! Thanks

The title says "Part 1", but the film says "Part 2 - Positions". So where's the real Part 1?

I like how they keep pounding it int your head about killing to make them comfortable with death before they get to the battle field which is a good thing so it's out of your head

Thanks again, NV. Keep 'em coming!

Marlin Brando, Gregory Peck, Angie Dickinson, Omar Sharif were all magnificent in this movie!

Thank you for sharing.

Those 5 manequins are amazing

@NocturnalBreather Bellau Wood 1918

It is commonly referred to as a "Mid-Atlantic" accent.

I love when you had to teach people that the tip must point forward

The M1 Garand rifle is just like a woman. You got to pull her in tight and squeeze. You take care of her and she will take care of you.

My grandpa, would say," Do it like your girlfriend, Hold it and squeeze it."

@ZerokillerOppel1 they also used to teach lefties to be righties when writing as well

@wikieditspam lmao plz do time travel before hearing my approval. 22:37 is not the way you shoot on a competition range, there is absolutely no bone support. If someone said that was a combat stance and if he bent forward a little, Id agree, but I can already imagine the sway he'd be getting from using that many muscles

Are there any sighting and aiming excise videos?

@oyvnes bullshit, nobody in the world still qualifies to shoot out to 500yds with the service rifle like the US Marines you didnt shoot with Marines on their rifle qualification because you wouldnt be allowed as a non Marine I shoot in competition and this video covers alot of valid points

@LearnToTurn7 since when did the army start teaching spray and pray?

27:09 Strike up the band!

Amazing how far we've come.

Wow, how did you get an hour length video up?

Does this training film have a Part 1 before Positions? Does anyone have the intro?

Sounds like he's from Boston or New York, somewhere from New England (but not Jersey), possibly with Irish or English descent (or both). Of course back then dialects were more pronounced.

3:45I got lost when he started adjusting all those loops and hooks.😩😭

It's weird hearing that mid-Atlantic accent on the instructor, like he's a posh Brit trying to talk Yankee.

@wikieditspam thank you for your comment, and your point is? Just watch the movie (which is old yeah so?) or stfu and go comment something else. Thank you!

No Garand thumb indeed, Mr. Tenacious Trilobite

28:18...damn that guy must be ancient LOL

@semiautoriflelover more than two, they've been around since 1775, and they've been in each war they've been called to. American Revolutionary War Quasi-War Barbary Wars War of 1812 Seminole Wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Spanish-American War Philippine-American War Boxer Rebellion Banana Wars World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam War Gulf War Somali Civil War Kosovo War War in Afghanistan Iraq War Operation Odyssey Dawn And they fought harder than hard in each one.

Crazy how people didn't used any ear protection and was OK after passing the war

M1Garand won a lot of battles.Germans had some great simiautomatic but too few too late

@mgibbs88 According to statistics, I would have to say Vietnam where the troops were taught to lay down a blanket of fire (which would make sense in a jungle environment, but doesn't work so well in large open areas like Afganistan or Iraq). I'd have to say that using a 3-round burst instead of full automatic helped alot.

1:08:33 mans not get a garand thumb

instructur look like the young of col. trautmann

In the standing position, holding that rifle in position with the just the right hand/arm... ain't easy. At least, not anymore for this old man!

@USMarineRifleman0311 All those people are wrong, just because a lot of people do it doesn't make it the right way. You can become the best person in the world at doing something well the wrong way, but you'll probably never have it as good as someone who is best at doing it right. I'll time travel to bring any honored marksman who used the M1 rifle, and I bet you he would say that 22:37 is the worst way you could shoot the rifle.

Dude looks like Bill Murray in Caddyshack!

It's called M-1 Thumb for good reason.

"Keep your heads down and STICK TO YOUR TRAINING"

Is there a link to the actual part 1?

Garand thumb occurs some times when the bolt is charge to much or your running it would snap but in new condition or no on active use it wont snap

I dare say that any here not having had some formal marksmanship training may not understand what calling the shot means and why it’s important to marksmanship development. At any rate, everything important to good shooting has been known since the 1920’s as proven by review of period marksmanship training materials. Unfortunately today’s shooters appear for the most part not to have any interest in marksmanship because they think they already know how to do it. These folks would be smart to attend an M1 Garrand Clinic or the USAMU Small Arms Firing School. These programs confirm the video here is as proper today for marksmanship development as it was when it was produced.

Now get Training Films from AFTER WW2, Korea, and Vietnam and will REALLY see Differences.

This film is labeled wrong it starts at Part 2, where is Part 1?

so the sling is for your own personal preference.

@M1ASniper Where did you learn that kind of debate techniques? In a american college? Or as we call it in Europe; kinder garden?

"Spray and Pray"? Post Vietnam we removed Full-Auto from vast majority and went with the 3-shot burst to prevent just that. Waiting for a clear aimed shot is also likely to end up without firing a round. Enemy tend to be "invisible" as YOU should be in a fire fight. Unlike Hollywood or Video Games men don't just stand there and let you shoot them. A real firefight is a bunch of simultaneous little battles. Just don't freeze up. Firing in general direction is better than a cold weapon...

Damn they're some sloppy mag drills

@dizzyman67 I have spent many years in the norwegian army, and i have trained a lot with the us marines. They are awesome soldiers and great riflemen, but they are not better than the norwgians or the british, dutch or germans i have trained with.

I wonder if he lived to tell his grandchildren about it

All this is for righthanded people. Lefthanded people just have to reversre all the tips?

22:37 doesnt work? thats the best standing position, all competition shooters use it

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I think it;'s your basic, common New England accent.

I wish the army would still hold this idea of rapid fire, instead of spray-and-pray.

The men going to the Pacific were taught to fire accurately from the hip, not just spray and pray.

@LearnToTurn7 You really don't know what you're talking about.

Родной язык.. хорошо хоть инстктору яйца не отстелил

Some English actor doing the narration, me thinks.

Why was he so seductive with it at first like the way he be holdin that 😩

What a waste of time. The norwegian army learn their recruts to shoot in a much moore smart and faster way. But this was probably necessary when the us army had the learn millions of recruts to shoot in ww2.

@M1ASniper Americans are the best at everything?? You mean ENRON? Or the finance marked? Or losing wars in Vietnam, Irak and Afganistan? Agree!

@M1ASniper You seem pretty fixated on homosexuality. I'm just guessing, but are you maybe homosexuall yourself? Many homophobe are. I'm not judging you. It is your business what sexual orientation you have.

Great, now we all know how use an obsolete battle rifle, good for the zombie outbreak when it happens, lets hope no one who see's this video needs these skills.

i cant speak for rifle men , but america is not best at everything... yes, they are best at some things but not every thing. and america is not the greatest nation on earth, itis great but not the greatest...