[Vulture6]

The rifle range is the same across the Marine Corps. For rifle qualification, you are shooting at a 6’ by 6’ target. Centered in that target is a black bullseye, shaped either like a circle or a silhouette of a torso (head, shoulders, and chest). If you hit the black, it is a hit. If you hit a quarter of an inch or more from the black, it is a miss (Chesty Puller once said “you can’t hurt ‘em if you don’t hit ‘em”). Even at 200 yards, the bullseye looks pretty small. At 500 yards, you are centering your front sight post on a speck. These are the targets that ride up and down or carriages with personnel in the butts marking and scoring your targets.

You shoot from the 200, 300, and 500 yard lines.

At OCS, you may do a FAM fire at the range – but don’t expect to get much out of it other than knowing that the M-16 doesn’t recoil much. You only shoot a handful of rounds, and for all I know, they may have done away with the FAM fire. In my opinion, pretty much a waste of half a training day. You'll go through a full two weeks of marksmanship training during TBS - the exact same program as the recruits get at MCRD... only they aren't as lenient on lieutenants who go UNQ more than once.