He was using my rifle (which probably wasn’t the best idea in the first place), but couldn’t get the image to clear because of a vicious glare.
On one trip, my hunting partner was having an extremely hard time. I have seen this scenario play out in combat and in the hunting landscape. How many times have you peered through your scope to see glare so bad that you couldn’t see the target? You want to shoot, but the target is moving. We need to build a position, limit our movement, bring the scope to bear on our target. That means it’s time to discuss how to fight glare. Most places we hunt, be it the elk hunter in the Spanish Peaks of Montana, or the Marine Corps sniper in the mountains of Afghanistan, we cannot predict where our target will show its face every time. You want the quarry to squint if it looks in your direction.Īs luck would have it, we can’t always have things go our way.
Instead, you want your prey to have that disadvantage. As every hunter knows, you never want to look into the sun. After crawling into place, we adjusted our position as the sun started to rise behind the target.