A Good Shot

This is your life, this is, this is what you're built to do, and you become one. This, you don't, your rifle is everything. You get up in the morning "Where's my rifle". You know, you gotta have it wherever you go. But when you're standing there and you're behind the sniper, like for me I found peace with it. Like for me, like it's quiet, I got a thing to do, you just conc... then the last thing you feel is your breathing. Just your breathing, because that's what you want to concentrate on, right? And then you focus and then once you get your breathing down, you focus and then you feel comfortable. The last thing is just that steady touch. And how you know you've made a good shot is that when you cannot anticipate when that round is gonna go off, that's a good shot. If you know, like if you pull and you know "ok, it's gonna go bang now". But when you touch and all of a sudden it recoils and you say, " wow, I wasn't expecting that", you can rest assured that most likely that will be a good shot.

Mr. Campbell explains the importance of a soldier’s rifle and how you know when you’ve made a good shot.

Perry Campbell

Mr. Campbell was born on August 19, 1963, in Goose Bay, Labrador. After moving to a fishing village in Newfoundland at the age of 13, Mr. Campbell tried to make it as a fisherman but unfortunately suffered from sea sickness and went back to Labrador. One day he saw a Canadian Forces ad that stated, "No life like it." Captivated by this, Mr. Campbell applied and within four months he began travelling across Canada for his basic training. After three years as an infantryman, Mr. Campbell decided to become a military police officer. As a military police officer Mr. Campbell was always in the face of danger, but none so great as when he was called upon for duty in the former Yugoslavia with the UN Peacekeeping unit in the early 1990s. Here he was a master corporal, heading up the main investigative body for all armies, managing his own shift, and being responsible for the Jordanian Armies. Mr. Campbell spent nine years as a military police officer, and if called upon today for service would not hesitate to answer the call of duty for his country and undying dedication to the Canadian Forces. Mr. Campbell has spent the last ten years in Yellowknife with his wife and children.