As a former Marine and Distinguished rifleman, I have never understood the military abandoning the KD course. Is the KD course the be all to end all in training? Nope. But it is the be all to end all in refining the basics. As was stated in the post and I have heard in matches from Army folks. The wack-a-mole targets are ones that you hit, or dont and dont know where you hit. I have also heard that a lot of them are in such bad shape that to score a hit you are better off shooting the berm on front to get enough coverage on parts that are not holes to score a hit. A pulled paper target will (mostly) have a hole somewhere so that you can adjust or train from and a repair is a paster.
As a former Marine and Distinguished rifleman, I have never understood the military abandoning the KD course. Is the KD course the be all to end all in training? Nope. But it is the be all to end all in refining the basics. As was stated in the post and I have heard in matches from Army folks. The wack-a-mole targets are ones that you hit, or dont and dont know where you hit. I have also heard that a lot of them are in such bad shape that to score a hit you are better off shooting the berm on front to get enough coverage on parts that are not holes to score a hit. A pulled paper target will (mostly) have a hole somewhere so that you can adjust or train from and a repair is a paster.
All true! The "that you can adjust or train from" part is critical to learning and completely lost on pop-up/wack-a-mole ranges.