Shooting from the stalk:
Dave: I agree, there is little point in employing a sniper under 400
yards unless to repell an
attack. Law enforcement of course has different goals and 70 yards
is the norm. The
question I pose comes from having to stalk to within 200 yards or less
(sometimes a lot less
depending on terrian) on a designated observer. This is typical of
most military styled
sniper schools. To test your field craft you have to stalk unrealistically
close to the
instructor/observer. You fire a round (blank) and he searches the area
for you. If he can
not see you, a walker moves in your general direction and so forth
and so on until the
observer/instructor has a pin point location on you. If he still can
not see you, you take a
second shot. The idea here is, as stated above, that if you can do
this up close and personal,
you should therefore be able to do it from afar. Getting this close
can really tax your
camouflage as a ghillie does not make you invisible. As well, through
a bino or a scope it is
easy to pick out the disk of the snipers scope or the muzzle of the
rifle, as well as muzzle
flash and dust being kicked up by the blast. So I suppose me question
is more geared
toward how to "fool" the observer. You'd not catch to many of us in
an open field 150
yards from a platoon of AK equiped troops, looking for a fight! Can
you spell death wish?
Scott <xring@voicenet.com>
USA - Friday, September 25, 1998 at 15:32:52 (EDT)
On the stalk to 200 meters of an observer - The reason seems to have
been lost with time.
The reason is because an objective deploys OP/LPs and you must stalk
to within shoot
range. Ideally (for the defender) an OP is placed 150 to 200 meters
from the perimeter
and your objective may be 100 meters inside the perimeter. Thus when
added your stalk to
with 200 meters of the Observer (OP) is just to get within 400 to 500
meters of your
target.
Rick <RBowcher@aol.com>
Fayetteville, NC USA - Friday, September 25, 1998 at 21:33:14 (EDT)