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Hipshot
Friday, 27 March 2015, 10:32 PM

Re: The Source Of Our Usernames.
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It has been awhile since I posted.  Had to survive back to back to back knee surgeries.  Left knee replaced twice.  This actually has a bit to do with the "Hipshot" tag.  I'm an army vet.  Served mostly with the Armored Cavalry Regiments, notable the 3rd, 7th, and the 11th ACRs.  I was a tank crewman, driver, gunner, and tank commander.  Was a loader for a trip to Graf, (Grafenwhor tank range) but that was the only time.  Anyway, while in Korea with the 68th Armored, I was assigned to the Op officer's tank.  I was gunner, and Tank Commander when he wasn't aboard.  One day at the range, I was sighting in his tank and had to fire a check round in order to make sure all the sights were spot on.  Fired from gunner's main sight - Bullseye - straight through the aiming point.  Gunner's backup telescope, again bullseye.  Tank Commander's range finder again bullseye.  Three shots fired, and three shots right through the center of the target.  (Target by the way is ranged as 1200m or nearly a mile away!)
  I also carried an expert's rating for the M1911 .45 pistol, (Now, I'm REALLY telling my age!!!), M14, and M3 SMG.   
  I was also a fan of the old Rick O'Shay comic strip.  One of the supporting characters was a gunfigher who went by the name of . . . you guessed it . . . Hipshot!.  I also favored western clothes as well as a stiff, flat brimmed hat similar to the one he usually wore when I went off post dressed in civvies.  Ergo, a brother soldier, who has since made his last formation, tagged me as Hipshot. :D