marksman/sniper tips and tricks
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Nothing takes the place of practice with your rifle. We place blue rock at varying distances from 50-600 yards and practice. Sure you need to know how your rifle will preform at 100 yards. You also need to learn to judge distance. If you have a range finder. Go out into the woods, fields, ect find a target estimate the range. Then verify with you range finder. SERE training is 90% mental and common sense. It pays great dividens to study up on various survival techniques. But unless you pratice them all the reading in the world will not mean a thing.
usmc1371
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Master the basics:
learn natural point of aim
learn to get into solid shooting positions quick like sitting, knealing, prone. get a good shooting sling and learn how to use it right. use a rest any time you can. Shoot your chosen weapon alot it will help you learn the trigger feel this in important. If your gun has a good clean trigger pull lucky you it will make accurate shots easyer. If it has an M16 type trigger learn to "stage" the trigger ie squeez all the slack you can, breath again and finish the pull when the sights are back to your natural point of aim. I like to shoot with both eyes open but thats just me. Lots of dry fire practice will help with our trigger pull and sight picture. Front sight should be clear, target should look a little blury so should the rear sight. Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, feel free to ask spacific questions.
learn natural point of aim
learn to get into solid shooting positions quick like sitting, knealing, prone. get a good shooting sling and learn how to use it right. use a rest any time you can. Shoot your chosen weapon alot it will help you learn the trigger feel this in important. If your gun has a good clean trigger pull lucky you it will make accurate shots easyer. If it has an M16 type trigger learn to "stage" the trigger ie squeez all the slack you can, breath again and finish the pull when the sights are back to your natural point of aim. I like to shoot with both eyes open but thats just me. Lots of dry fire practice will help with our trigger pull and sight picture. Front sight should be clear, target should look a little blury so should the rear sight. Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, feel free to ask spacific questions.
icebones
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+1 on the kentucky windage
how about setting up a game of cat and mouse?
like the sniper instructors do or the E&E instructors do for pilots in training?
go in the woods somewhere, and have about 5-10 buddies come looking for you. but take it seariously, and dont let it become a game.
really think about the tracks you are leaving, and your camoflauge. A small part of a snipers training is actually shooting, many, many, hours are spent on camoflauge, moving without being seen, and escape & evasion. small things, like waiting for the wind to blow across a field of tall weeds before you belly crawl across it so you wont attract attention.
same goes for moving on dead leaves in the woods.
The human eye is best at detecting movement, solid colors and geometric shapes. do your best to eliminate all of these from your person, and your gear. also remember your outline. even if its pitch dark outside, you will be seen if you walk along the edge of a hill and your outline is visible aganst the skyline.
hell i know if i tryed that cat-and-mouse make believe E&E with with my buddies i would climb in a tall tree and watch them leave empty beer cans all over my frekin woods
how about setting up a game of cat and mouse?
like the sniper instructors do or the E&E instructors do for pilots in training?
go in the woods somewhere, and have about 5-10 buddies come looking for you. but take it seariously, and dont let it become a game.
really think about the tracks you are leaving, and your camoflauge. A small part of a snipers training is actually shooting, many, many, hours are spent on camoflauge, moving without being seen, and escape & evasion. small things, like waiting for the wind to blow across a field of tall weeds before you belly crawl across it so you wont attract attention.
same goes for moving on dead leaves in the woods.
The human eye is best at detecting movement, solid colors and geometric shapes. do your best to eliminate all of these from your person, and your gear. also remember your outline. even if its pitch dark outside, you will be seen if you walk along the edge of a hill and your outline is visible aganst the skyline.
hell i know if i tryed that cat-and-mouse make believe E&E with with my buddies i would climb in a tall tree and watch them leave empty beer cans all over my frekin woods
pgeleven
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anyone else smell a Gecko?
.38 Special
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Sort of. My brain tells my finger to begin a slow steady squeeze. Somewhere during that squeeze -- at a point unknown to me -- the gun will discharge. This is as opposed to "Do It" which sounds to me like a great way to yank the gun off target.
But I know that you know that. I just wanted to use the opportunity to get in another crack about the "sniper rifle" crowd. Sorry.
Lovesbeer99
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jarheadtop.com - get his books. They are geared toward camp perry marksmenship. Great stuff.
Old Guard Dog
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Make sure that snow you put in your mouth isn't yellow snow!!
Davo
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Practice as you will compete. Shoot alot. Read. Practice at home-dryfire etc.
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