I had something a little different in mind for this post, but there seems to have been some confusion about an element of the BZO post below. Some individuals seem to have thought that I was creating, in one FB commenter’s words, “a trumped-up version of ‘I don’t want to wear my kit.’” Nothing could be further from the truth. You have to train in your kit. You should get to the point where you can perform any task you may have to in the field in kit, as though it wasn’t even there. The point I was making in the BZO post is that zeroing a rifle is not training. It is maintenance. Zeroing in kit is simply counterproductive. Once the rifle is zeroed, then you should do all your shooting in your kit. There’s a little more to it, and I’ve seen examples of this. Somebody sets SOP for gear, even knowing the requirements in the AO, and you train for several months with that SOP. However, the SOP isn’t the same as the requirements in the AO. In the last month, you start training with all the stuff you are required to have in the AO, and