Thread: : Snipers vs. Competition Shooters

yeah interesting. but lying in your own piss in the snow or bull ants biteing your goosh desert ...then some goose saying that target and comp shooters are better. cant compare the to. if you do your a dreamer.

Originally Posted by 6MMBR

yeah interesting. but lying in your own piss in the snow or bull ants biteing your goosh desert ...then some goose saying that target and comp shooters are better. cant compare the to. if you do your a dreamer.

Dead right. I still wouldn't fuck with a sniper.

its such a misconception about snipers being great shots -they better intelligence gatherers that can and do hang out in all sorts of shit situations if needed me thinks and very proficient shots .The way to become a better shot is to shoot all terrain -listen to others who may be better in different situations .I have shot a few contest and done ok but hit the big south island valleys and didnt -I need mountain practice calling wind !!!

ASRA or any of the other service rifle clubs will get you started. Needs lots of practice to be up in the top placings, as they say, practice more than everyone else for a better chance of beating them. I think the army team spent at least the whole week prior at the range and it showed in their scores.

Only a week.HAHA The Army team started end of march to go to the service shoot in ozzy mid june.

the two groups in question are worlds apart and I don't even know why they would be compared IMO.target shooter's are just that.snipers arnt just targets shooters the shooting part makes up only a 3rd of what there about.

Originally Posted by Neckshot

the two groups in question are worlds apart and I don't even know why they would be compared IMO.target shooter's are just that.snipers arnt just targets shooters the shooting part makes up only a 3rd of what there about.

10% Ive heard it said from a US sniper !

Originally Posted by el borracho

10% Ive heard it said from a US sniper !

so whats the point of them being compared then?.

Originally Posted by Neckshot

so whats the point of them being compared then?.

Keep your pants on solider
All the article said was they where similar in shooting ability.

Originally Posted by BRADS

Keep your pants on solider
All the article said was they where similar in shooting ability.

Ah just get sick of this sort of shit really.im over it now

Originally Posted by Neckshot

so whats the point of them being compared then?.

Think they were just seeing how often the best of the best missed so they could build some type of self aiming dohickey and accidentally showed that competitive shooters were better shots than Snipers

Doesn't really mean shit as both are experts in their chosen fields so there is really no competiton.

Be good to see a LR or HP guy belly crawl 2 km carrying their kit then take good shots haha

Would be a pretty interesting piece of kit. Bet the boys wanting to develop it were a bit pissed when the results came out.

"So as you can see here from our test results sir, we could spend millions developing some new equipment then millions more deploying it. OR.... we could just train our shooters better"

When the US snipers took three consecutive head shots within 5 seconds at 800y on those ''pirates'' off West Africa a couple of years ago, from one rocking boat to another rocking boat...well that restored all my faith in the ability of (some) the US's top snipers.

But as already said, the skill sets are completely different. I'd say both Target shooters and snipers are head and shoulders above the rest of the general shooting population in accuracy, but then snipers have to be battle fit and be able to lug all of their gear around the hills, something a lot of the target shooters I've observed would struggle with - in fact most of them are puffing just walking from their car to the shooting mound

I guess this comparison could be used with pro hunters or cullers etc... just because they hunt for a living doesn't automatically make them a good shot with a rifle. A lot of the guys I've worked with were pretty average shots with a rifle at best, but they were still very good hunters.

kj

Originally Posted by kimjon

When the US snipers took three consecutive head shots within 5 seconds at 800y on those ''pirates'' off West Africa a couple of years ago, from one rocking boat to another rocking boat...well that restored all my faith in the ability of (some) the US's top snipers.

But as already said, the skill sets are completely different. I'd say both Target shooters and snipers are head and shoulders above the rest of the general shooting population in accuracy, but then snipers have to be battle fit and be able to lug all of their gear around the hills, something a lot of the target shooters I've observed would struggle with - in fact most of them are puffing just walking from their car to the shooting mound

I guess this comparison could be used with pro hunters or cullers etc... just because they hunt for a living doesn't automatically make them a good shot with a rifle. A lot of the guys I've worked with were pretty average shots with a rifle at best, but they were still very good hunters.

kj

I thought it was actually only 30 metres, not 800.
From wikipedia
U.S. Navy SEAL snipers, reportedly from the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group,[25] on the Bainbridge's fantail opened fire and killed the three pirates remaining in the lifeboat with a simultaneous volley of three shots. The SEALs had arrived Friday afternoon after being parachuted into the water near the Halyburton, which later joined with the Bainbridge.[8] At the time, the Bainbridge had the lifeboat under tow, approximately 25 to 30 yards astern.[26]

Originally Posted by stug

I thought it was actually only 30 metres, not 800.
From wikipedia
U.S. Navy SEAL snipers, reportedly from the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group,[25] on the Bainbridge's fantail opened fire and killed the three pirates remaining in the lifeboat with a simultaneous volley of three shots. The SEALs had arrived Friday afternoon after being parachuted into the water near the Halyburton, which later joined with the Bainbridge.[8] At the time, the Bainbridge had the lifeboat under tow, approximately 25 to 30 yards astern.[26]

Thats the big tip off there, DEVGRU aka Seal Team 6, if you go by how well trained they are- we are led to believe