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Sniper Country provides articles of interest to the readers of our site on law enforcement and military sniping, as well as long range shooting.  We invite readers to submit their works for consideration.  If you have a topic about which you would like to write an article, contact Marius Ferreira, our ( South African ) Webmaster, or any one of the other staff members, Garry Blosser, Pete Reiff and Scott Powers

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Commentary - a series of commentaries on miscellaneous subjects

• Accuracy Facts: The .308 versus the .30-06 - Bart Bobbitt
• British Sniper Training - Slugboy
• Eyeing the Sights - Countersnipers prepare for crucial air base defense role - (From Air Force News website)
• Hijacked Bus Takedown: The Basics - "Bo" Bosiljevac
• Laying The Foundations: Re-Introducing Sniping In The Kenyan Army - Slugboy
• Long Range Shooting - An Historical Perspective - Research Press website
• Personal Kit And Equipment - Slugboy
• The Saga of the M16 in Vietnam (In two parts) - Dick Culver's Shooting Page
• Selection of Sniper Personnel - John C. Simpson (Originally AntiTerrorism website )
• A Sniper's Confession: The Importance of Competitive Shooting to Sniping - Kent Gooch (No Bull site)
• Stealth Warriors - Jeff Stein (The Washington Post, March 09, 1997)
• Taking aim: Coaches improve shooting - Lance Cpl. Scott McAdam Jr., MCAS Mirama (Marine Corps News website, July 11, 2006)
• True Bravery - SGT Thomas Blahnik
• Washington-area murders:
  • Response to Mr. Daley - Dennis Muldrew
  • Sniper Country's response to the Maryland Murders
• What It Takes To Be A Marine Scout/Sniper - SGT Lance M. Bacon, MCB Camp Lejeune, N.C.

• 2nd Annual Carlos N. Hathcock II Sniper Competition (1999) - peteR
• Allegheny Sniper Challenge #1 - May 4,5 2002 - PJC
• Allegheny Sniper Challenge #3 - May 28-29, 2004 - PJC
• BadLands Tactical Training Facility Sniper Match - 26-28 April 2002 - Sarge
• Hathcock 2 (1999) - Russell E. Taylor
• Operational Tactics Inc. National SWAT/Sniper Symposium (1999) - David Marion
• A Sniper Competition - 5th Annual 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) International Military Sniper Competition (1998) - MSG William A. "Congo" Easterling
• Sniper Country at the 1997 Prairie Dog Conference - Part I - Condor
• Sniper Country at the 1997 Prairie Dog Conference - Part II - Scott Powers
• Sniper Country's SNIPERQUEST 2003 - A study in photos and quotes - Various Participants
• The Sniper Rendezvous at Storm Mountain Sept. 23 & 24, Year 2000 - peteR

• The Bullet - James R. Jarrett
• Tales of the Black Art - Jungle Stalk - Steven J King

• Accurizing An M-1 Garand (In six parts) - R. Craig Johnson
• Adjust the Trigger on a Remington - Pablito
• Adjust the Trigger on a Savage 110-Series Rifle - Daniel Chisholm
• Adjusting a Winchester Trigger - Pablito
• Barrelmaking 101 - JR
• Bedding the Remington 700 - Jared. As much of a How-To-Not as it is a How-To for bedding. (Ranch Trippin website)
• Building A Bullet Seating Gauge For The Ar-15 - R. Craig Johnson
• Build your own AR15 ( In Four Parts ) - Scott Powers
• Chambering a .50 Caliber Rifle Barrel - Daniel Lilja (Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels website)
• Choose a Proper Sniper Scope - Scott Powers
• How I built my Own Dream Rifle - Joel Avila
• How I Improved Accuracy - A basic primer by Joel Avila
• How To Camouflage A Rifle - A basic primer by Joel Avila
• How to Use a Leupold Mil-Dot Reticle - From the Leupold & Stevens Website
• Installation of a scope with Badger rings and mount on a Remington 700 Short action - From Extreme Firepower website
• Make your own Sniper Saddle - peteR
• Mechanical Zero and why it's important - Scott Powers
• Modify M14 Magazines - Andy Webber from Armament Technologies
• Painting Primer - buk
• The Remington 700 Police .300WM Project - The Latest Revisions and Upgrades - peteR
• The Remington 870 Express Project - peteR
• Rifle Testing for Dummies - Scott Powers
• Rifle Tuning - David R. Reed
• Ruger Bisley Conversion Project - peteR
• Scope Mount Selection: Tapered or Flat? - Scott Powers

• ... Rules of Gun Fighting (Marines; Army; Navy; Air Force)
• Murphy's Laws of Combat - Murphy was a grunt

• Police Sniper Training - John Plaster
• SNIPERSONLINE: An Internet mailing list connecting snipers from around the country and the world - Scott Powers

• .45-70 at Two Miles: The Sandy Hook Tests of 1879 - Research Press website
• The 1860's Target Rifle - Joe Jones
• The Concept of the Modern Battlefield - David R. Reed
• First Woman - History in the making on April 14, 2001 - Master Sgt. Bob Haskell
• First woman sniper? - Not quite! - LTC John B. Fowler
• Gunny Hathcock, II:
  • Goodbye my Friend - Stuart Meyers on Carlos Norman Hathcock, II
  • Gunny, We Salute You - Sniper Country tribute to Gunny Hathcock, II
• Historic Sniper Scopes - A comparative Study - Scott Powers
  • The No.32 Mk1 (Britain)
  • The PU telescopic Sight (Soviet and Satellites)
  • The Gw ZF4-fach (WWII Germany, some post war use)
• History of the Fifty - Keith Pagel  ( Fifty Caliber Shooter's Association )
• The Lone Marksman Revisited - Gary Yee
• Meeting A Legend:  Simo Häyhä - (Mosin-Nagant Dot Net Website)
• A sniper's tale - Andrew Rule (The Sydney Morning Herald website - Australia) - The story of Ian Robertson in Korea
• Siege of Fort Meigs (April-May, 1813) - Gary Yee
• Sniper at Peace With His Duty.  LA Times article on Chuck Mawhinney
• Snipers in Bosnia - 2LT H.J. Halterman
• Snipers in Somalia - The Medal of Honor citations for Gordon and Shughart
• US Marine Corps' first formal scout-sniper school - Summer of 1977. By Thomas C. Huffman, Edited by C. Young. (AboutGuns.net website)
• War on Terrorism:
  • Avoiding the Stellenbosch Syndrome: A Strategy, Operational Concepts and Measures of Effectiveness for the War on Terror - Lieutenant Colonel David E.A. Johnson (USA)
  • War in Iraq: CNN War Tracker/Archive - A day-by-day look at the war in Iraq, archived after President Bush declared on May 1 2003 that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
• WWII - A Sniper War Story - 2Lt H.J. Halterman

• 219 reasons to want to join the Marine Corps - TheFew.com website
• I Am The Flag Of The United States of America 
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 
• We'll go forward from this moment - In response to the September 11 2001 attacks 

• Mr. Clinton
• Osama Bin Laden - Vocals by Colin Powell and George W. Bush on the Bongos (ShockWave file)
• Saddam Hussein

• All the Good Things - Well worth your time to read - Sister Helen P. Mrosia
• The American GI - the most influential person of the century - General Colin Powell
• The Average Military Man - We salute you
• Carlos Hathcock - Christopher Ziebarth
• Coming Home - What I learned serving in Iraq - By Greg Moore
• Deep within this Marine - Kevin M. East
• A Different Christmas Poem - Anonymous
• Discovered
• Every War's A Parents' War - R. Craig Johnson
• Just a Simple Soldier - A. Lawrence Vaincourt
• Last Post & Dressed to Kill - Jim Craig
• Marines' Prayer
• A Ranger Died Today
• Rifleman's Creed - "This is my rifle . . . ." - Major General W. H. Rupertus, USMC
• Sheep, But not Food
• Sniper's Regret - Patrick Johannesen, U.S.M.C.
• Sniper's Serenity - Robert W. Baird, U.S.M.C.
• The Sun Beat Me Like a Hammer
• They Are So Dang Young - Author unknown
• Today You've Married a United States Soldier - R. Craig Johnson.
• What is a Vet?
• White Feather - Jack Mergott

• Barrel Break ins - Do I do it? - Pro's and Con's of breaking in a barrel - Gale McMillan.  Originally from The Firing Line Forums page
• Barrel break in - another point of view : Off the Texas Predator Posse site
• Magnification of Sniper Scopes -- Why 10-Power? - Condor
• Ranging the Distance -- Questions and Answers - Condor and Carmen of FCSA

• .243 WSSM – The Long-Awaited 6mm "Answer"? - Bill Prudden
• .408 CheyTac - Trip Report, Shooters' Observations and Test Results - Test report from Dean Michaelis
• .50 BMG Replacement Cartridges: FASCAP Enterprises, Inc. - Letter from Gene Ramirez
• A-191 Cartridge Development - Press release from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane IN, in 5 pages
• Air Density and Bullet Performance - Daniel Lilja (Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels website)
• Ballistic Effects of Altitude, Temperature and Humidity - Daniel Lilja (Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels website)
• Detachable Magazines, Plague or Pleasure? - Scott Powers
• Effects of Altitude and Temperature on Rifling Twist - Daniel Lilja (Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels website)
• First-Shot Variance in Semi-Auto Rifles - Marius
• Green Ammunition Program - Off EnviroGlobe.com website
• Guided Bullet - US Patent number 5,788,178 - Off US Patent Website
• Infra Red Detection and the Sniper - Paul Mickey
• Long-range Shooting & Hunting - Daniel Lilja (Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels website)
• M24 SWS Letter, "Sniper Gripe," - Armed Forces Journal International
• M24 SWS Letter, "Sniper Gripe" -- The Response - Rick Boucher, SOTIC Instructor
• Mil Dots
  • Mil-dots and Minutes-of-Angle, From a Technical Perspective - Jay Williams
  • The Real Truth About Mil Dots - Rick Boucher
• Objective Individual Combat Weapon - A rifle with integrated electronic fire-control
• Parallax, and how scopes work
• The Real Benefits of Barrel Fluting - By Joel Avila
• The Remington 40-X Rifle: A legend in it's own time - Pablito
• The Romanian PSL Sniper rifle - A collector's perspective - Scott Powers
• Scope Bases for Long-Range Shooting - Daniel Lilja ( Fifty Caliber Shooter's Association Website )
• Slam Fires:
  • Slam Fire: a Parable... - Walt Kuleck (Fulton Armory website)
  • Slam Fire: The M16 Story - Walt Kuleck (Fulton Armory website)
  • Slam Fires, Mags & SLEDs; Clint speaks out! - Clint McKee (Fulton Armory website)
• Smart Bullets - You can run, but... - New Scientist
• The Springfield M1903 - R.O. "Dick" Culver
• Thoughts on Shooting at Extreme Ranges - Jack D. (JD) Martin
• US Optics SN-12, Tomorrow's USMC Battle Rifle Scope - Mike Miller
• USMC M40A3 - An Upgraded Sniper System - Mike Miller
• What makes a rifle barrel accurate? - Daniel Lilja (Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels Inc website)

• Bolt Actions Speak Louder Than Words (Afghanistan 2002) - Rob Krott, Soldier of Fortune
• Cool under fire, snipers don't miss (Afghanistan 2002) - Stephen Thorne, The Canadian Press
• Killing shot made at distance of 2,430 metres (Afghanistan 2002) - Stephen Thorne, The Canadian Press
• Rooftop Execution - NCIS report provides details of sniper deaths - From Marine Corps Times
• Sniper shot that took out an insurgent killer from three quarters of a mile (Iraq 2006) - Toby Harnden in Ramadi (Telegraph.co.uk website)
• Sniper uses skills to save life; 1-9 feels fire (Panama 1989) - Mark Wonders, 5th Public Affairs Division
• Sniper's skills in demand in Iraq (Iraq 2003) - Matthew Cox, Army Times Staff writer
• Snipers are army's invisible killers
• We were abandoned (Afghanistan 2002) - Michael Friscolanti (Macleans.ca website)

• Rec.guns - An excellent firearms newsgroup, maintained by an overworked moderator!
• Rec.hunting - Snipers are hunters! There's a lot of good information in this newsgroup!

• Ballistics Basics
• So You Want To Be A Sniper
• "Tics" - That is, "Optics" and "Politics"
• Sniper Practice . . . Using LIVE Targets!
• Gadgets and Gimmicks
• .308 vs 30-06
• Don't Make an "Arse" of Yourself
• There's Always One More Thing
• Now That You're Here...
• New Kid on the Block - the Sniper Pistol