Camp Perry rifle question

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

I got this newsletter from the CMP the other day.

Check out this photo, of a person shooting an M1 Garand at the rifle range at
Camp Perry, OH (the targets are on the edge of a cliff overlooking Lake Erie, so a special cordoned-off area of the lake is the "backstop" in use here).

The person's rifle looks elevated 30 degrees above horizontal.
Yet he just fired a shot-- the empty case just ejected and is only 2 feet away, flying thu the air.
Even from the unsupported standing position, an M1 doesn't have that much muzzle rise due to recoil, and maximum recoil movement wouldn't have happened this quickly anyway-- the shooter's mass would mean that the fired case should be a lot farther away by the time his body was rocked back to the highest point of muzzle climb.

Is this pic photoshopped, do you think?

Did they snap a pic of a shooter about to settle into a firing stance, and then add the shell case later to "fake" a photo of what they wanted to portray?

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

P.S. I assume he's shooting from 200 yards (I don't know any longer distance where you shoot from the unsupported standing position, except in metallic silhouette matches). So from 200 yards, he doesn't need much elevation to account for bullet drop. Less than 1 degree, surely.

 

[palmettomoon]

Standing slow fire, so he's allowing the recoil impulse to expend all energy upon firing. I do the same thing. He'll reload at the hip before returning the rifle to his shoulder to again find natural point of aim.

 

[Shrek926]

Standing slow fire, so he's allowing the recoil impulse to expend all energy upon firing. I do the same thing. He'll reload at the hip before returning the rifle to his shoulder to again find natural point of aim.

Yep. Nail on the head.


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[GAgunLAWbooklet]

I guess skinny Army-athlete guys recoil more.
Put an extry hunnert pounds on him, and even his "riding the recoil"
won't get his muzzle up that high.

 

[palmettomoon]

Perspective has a lot to do with that image. If the photographer had been standing at the same height as the shooter, the angle of his rifle wouldn't appear so severe.

 

[10thmountain]

Riding the recoil....