Thread: : Snipers vs. Competition Shooters

A couple of notes to take into account from someone who has operated with the US military on a regular basis for over 10 years back in the 1980s-2000s The Navy Seals who everyone is told are the greatest thing since sliced bread actually get a lot of their training from the Brit Royal Marines and Note the regular marines not the SBS as they were until combined with the SAS or any of the other specialised units. The US military has tended to rely on its massive budget for toys that in the right hands are exceptional tools however they have tended to let the technology take over from basic military skills as an example for those of use who were in the various services during the first Gulf war the US army and marines were just introducing GPS publicly and what was found out is that due to the use of GPS the vast majority of their troops could not navigate by basic compass techniques as they had either not been taught or had forgotten due to the new toy, this led to all sorts of chaos when batteries died and there were non available to replace them. Now for the sniper v s Target shooter thing the longest kills recorded were 1: Brit Sniper about 2-3 years ago at approx. 2450metres I can't remember the exact number but that is within +_ 15m and the second longest was by a Canadian sniper in Afghanistan about 7 or 8 years ago at 2350-2400m using a Harris .50cal issue sniper rifle. The biggest issue is the BS that Hollywood displays as all snipers including Police are trained not to shoot for the head at ranges longer than 3-400m as the risk of a miss could get the innocent people you are trying to save killed a civilian target shooter does not have this to consider when trying to kill a disgruntled piece of paper. There are a few locations in the world where a hunter can get some impression of the stress involved in sniping Africa where the game may well be hunting you and in North America where this may also occur. I have hunted in bear country in British Columbia and when you see fresh bear tracks in your tacks in Grizzly country it get a little hairy or fresh cougar tracks.