The sniper must know how to render medical aid to his partner (spotting the wounded place on the body of the partner and putting a tourniquet) because often, there are just two of them in the firing position.
When the tourniquet is put, the sniper has to evacuate his wounded partner from the battlefield. He should be very careful and not to reveal himself while doing it.
Shooting exercise.
Snipers are considered the elite troops in the army and it is very important that those who train to be a sniper were self-interested, apart from disciplined and skilled. Best snipers are decorated with a chevron, a pride of each sniper.
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They are obviously very tough, skilled and determined men.
The psychological testing is probably a very important aspect of their training. They must be able to fire at an enemy from what must seem to be close range through their telescopic site, and that enemy might not be firing back at the time. A hard thing to do I think, and the risk is letting your side down. Different if an enemy would be shooting at you, then it would be clear cut, kill or be killed…………Or am I completely wrong.
No, you are right.
But the most important part of marksmanship training, is judging when to fire. If a complete amateur picked up a sniper, looked through the scope, and so a enemy soldier, his first instinct would be to squeeze the trigger.
But he might not know (at the moment), that in doing so he might have just given himself away for the enemy to return fire. Or that the enemy soldier might actually have been a dummy, set up by an enemy sniper to draw fire (thus giving himself away).
There are so many factors to contemplate before the actual shot, that the actual process of holding your breath and squeezing the trigger is just the final 90% of the job.
One thing many people do not realize about snipers is that killing is very personal for them they can thanks to optics see the face of the person they are about to kill most soldiers they my fire weapons at the enemy but most of the time they only see a human from a distance often you may never know for sure if you killed someone or not or at least you often will not know if it was your bullets or anothers that hit because regular troops tend to fight using massed fire against an enemy target.
A sniper must also have very good discipline and patience many times their job is as much about observing as it is killing.
I know my father he was a LRRP with MACV in Vietnam.A member of his unit went through sniper training and passed with flying colors but he only killed one enemy solider after that he said that he just could not kill a person that he could see so closely so he went back to being a regular recon.
One of my seniors (a training instructor), was a veteran from Afghanistan. He has atleast 8 confirmed sniper kills to his name.
But he never had any problems killing anyone. Guess is all boils down to individual personality.
That’s cool about your Dad, yojimbo! I used to work with a guy that had been a LRRP. They were some bad dudes!
The only thing a sniper feels when killing is recoil.
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You are right, geoff. Not everyone is cut out for that.Have you read any of the books on snipers? they make for good reading, especially some of the accounts of the soviet female snipers like Lyudmila Pavlichenko, or Roza Shanina. or even sniper stories from the American civil war.
no, you are not wrong. snipers are in a different position because their doing is not really self defense and so more likely to cause psychological problems.
Nope, you’re pretty close.
At that range, that’s not very good shooting. I don’t know if they’re just starting out, or it’s the rifles they’re using.
But seriously, at that range, every single shot should be in at least the “8″ ring. If that had been a body standing there, a lot of those shots would be complete misses, not even a wound.
What is that, 100 meters? About three hundred yards? That’s nothing.
At 100 yards, I shoot a little .17, at dime sized objects, about the size of your thumb print or smaller. And pop it almost every single time (wind plays hell with it).
This being only three times that distance, and a helluva better rifle, every shot should be dead on.
At what range? Where did you get the figure of 100 metres?
You sound like you shoot in that class where you use a .22 or .17 or other small caliber rifle and the largest target is 25meters the mid size target is 50meters and the farthest and smallest target is 100 meters away.
If so I am surprised that you expect such perfection.Here is some news every record breaking range sniper kill more than one round was fired to get the kill.The reason is because at such great ranges 1,500 meters plus way past the max range for a Dragnov the bullet has slowed to subsonic speeds and the intended target will likely not even hear the bullets that miss.
Why is it that the Dragunov was adopted as a sniper rifle? –It would seem that further developing the old Nagant design, (heavier/longer barrels, differant chambering for more powerful rounds than the 7.62×54, differant stock, etc) would yield a sniper rifle with greater range and accuracy than the Dragunov.
No not really. The Mosins are great for what is today, short and mid-range shots, but are relatively hopeless at longer ranges.
Plus, the Dragunov, in the right hands is a far more accurate rifle (atleast for military use, if you were going hunting a Mosin is good).
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