Bill Pastore, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, September 20th, 2006: part of the Saving the legacy project

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JA : H w? BILL: With a rifle. You've got 200, 300 and 500 and all different p ition . 100 i ff­hand and prone and the marine match is 300 yards rapid fire standing to sitting. Y u' got 50 seconds to put 10 rounds in a bulls eye. And I've never missed cleaning to that Cleaning means you have two times you do it, ten rounds each. That's a clip that's eight rounds and two loose rounds. So you put the two loose rounds in, fire them and then load them, clip them, and I've never missed cleaning that target [earning a perfect score]. In fact, I took the state tournament here at the 300 yard line. That's called the marine range at 300 yards standing to sitting. JAS: That's impressive. BILL: Rapid fire, yeah. With open sights, just receiver sights, just military sights. Then your 500 yard line. Then sniping we had a 1903 Springfield, a .30-06, you know, an 0.3 with a four power scope on it. But we never got one. I mean, that's what we trained with. And then they had another one, a .30-06 with an- oh, I forget the name of the scope now (it's a strange, European, big, long, ten power). But they had sniping platoons and those were trained special. Scout sniper, we had ten seconds to live if we were put out as a sniper. J AS: That was the life expectancy? BILL: Yeah. JAS: Wow. BILL: They used snipers extensively in the First World War. They used snipers extensively in Vietnam- both sides- because the sniper is really a beautiful weapon. 21