Thread: Sniping in the beginning

Read an interesting article in The American Rifleman on-line magazine:
https://www.americanrifleman.org/art...niping-part-5/
The article outlines some of the equipment problems that the snipers had to overcome, e.g., using standard issue ammo in a SMLE with an off-set scope (off-set so that the rifle would fit the regulations requiring it to be ready for charger loading). Despite the problems, in the trenches in WWI, the time for a sniper to locate the target aim and fire a shot was about 3 seconds and the distances were up to 300 yards.
There is also info about a book (Sniping in France, with notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers
by Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh) written on the subject which is available as a free download from the net:
https://archive.org/details/snipinginfrancew00pricrich