Real Men Use Iron Sights

Luo Chong pulled the bolt action again, then fired one shot each at the three targets 200, 230, and 250 meters ahead. Only after emptying all five rounds in the magazine did he pull back the bolt action and begin inspecting the magazine.

The people beside him who were holding telescopes quickly swept their gazes over the range. Once again, they saw three targets swaying after being hit, and the corners of their mouths twitched involuntarily.

Two hundred meters, three hundred and fifty meters—those shooting distances were nothing unusual. Everyone present was one of Luo Chong's Personal Guards. Although they did not serve in frontline combat units, they were extremely skilled with long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows. They could be said to know them inside and out.

For bows and crossbows, such shooting distances were not entirely impossible either. However, that was their maximum range. They could only be said to be capable of sending an arrow that far. As for accurately hitting a target... well, that was another matter entirely.

The Han Tribe army's standardized archery assessment required soldiers to shoot at eighty meters with both longbows and shortbows. Seven hits out of ten counted as passing, eight as good, and a perfect score as excellent. Even that only tested whether they could hit the target, rather than evaluating their ring scores. Anyone who could hit the bullseye every time could be called a Marksman.

In Olympic recurve archery, competitors shot at a distance of seventy meters and were judged by their ring scores. Athletes basically hit the target with every arrow; the only difference was how high their scores were. The Han Tribe army's shooting assessment only required hitting the target from eighty meters away. This was because it was actual combat. No matter where on