Month: August 2018

Rifle Saddle For Tripod

This article offers advice on using a camera tripod to support your rifle whether you’re a sharpshooter or a sniper. A tripod has a lot of benefits over using cross sticks or a folding bipod. And, when it’s sufficiently camouflaged with an adapter that fits the forearm of the rifle, you’ll be hard-pressed to find […]

Choosing a Proper Sniper Scope

Whether you’re building a rifle for law enforcement, military, civilian or tactical competition, the scope magnification requirements will vary. Law enforcement wouldn’t need anything more than a 6X scope as riflemen aren’t allowed to take a shot further than 100 yards. Most are taken under 70 yards so a scope with 4 to 6 power […]

Special Ops and Basic Sniper Training

This is a high-level overview of the different U.S. sniper training courses available today. In the US military, snipers are individuals who successfully completed a formal course either in the US Army Sniper School, USMC Scout Sniper Basic Course, or the US Army Special Operations Target Interdiction Course. Snipers are highly trained to be assigned […]

Camouflage and Concealment

For a sniper to effectively approach and strike a target, he must be practically invisible throughout the hunt. Assessing the proficiency of a sniper’s concealment requires him to advance within 200 meters of a trained observer and fire two shots before withdrawing undetected. Part of the sniper’s job is being highly competent in obscurity while […]

Rules of Gun Fighting

USMC Rules For Gun Fighting Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring their friends who have guns. If you can, make friends with those on the crew served weapons. Bring them as well. Borrow money from them, it gives them an added incentive to […]

British Sniper Training

The word Sniper was derived from a term used by British soldiers stationed in India in the 1770s. The troops would hunt the Snipe, a small and nimble bird considered extremely challenging to shoot. So, those who were successful in hunting the bird were nicknamed, Snipers. Although several armies had special marksmen, it was only […]

Basic & Advanced Rifle Marksmanship

Marksmanship is the development of skills to hit whatever we aim at with certainty, at any range, within the effective range of our rifle. The skills required are numerous. It could be terrain, weather conditions, wind conditions: it does not matter. The only thing that matters is: I need to know with certainty that I […]

The .408 Cheyenne Tactical

Long-range tactical precision is being able to fire a weapon over an extremely long distance without affecting the direct surroundings. So, the .408 Cheyenne Tactical rifle was tested to confirm ballistic performance of the 419-gr. bullet and long-range accuracy. The results include information on the shoot ability of the rifle configuration and recommended modifications. Rifle […]

Snipers in History

Snipers are the most feared rifleman on the battlefield. With an average of around one enemy death per 250,000 rounds fired in the modern Global War on Terror, a sniper who only fires on average around 1.3 rounds per kill stands out as a terribly lethal soldier. The elite training and precision rifles given to […]

Ghillie Suits – Constructing your own

A ghillie suit is an outfit worn by hunters, snipers, and combatants to camouflage themselves in their surroundings to avoid being seen. The term ghillie is derived from the Gaelic word meaning “boy”, referring to young male servants who assisted during hunting excursions. While nature has taught us a thing or two about camouflage, it […]