Snipers Sniping & Countering them

[Rank amateur]

I just gotta ask what kinda girl your likely to get

Obviously, one who doesn't read The Small Wars Journal.

[Uboat509]

I just gotta ask what kinda girl your likely to get

A scottish one. In my experience they tend not to be the fragile flower type.

SFC W

[Rifleman]

I just gotta ask what kinda girl your likely to get

Hopefully, one who inherited a Highland "stalking estate!"

"Honey, can I use your rifle this evening while you're at PTA?"

[Fuchs]

...of the scope to identify a drug lord as such at that distance.

As for the shooter eliminating an obvious immediate threat, well done.

Sniper observers often use 30x spotting scopes.


The 1,500 m shot seems to have been done with .338LapMag cartridge, and it was apparently a first shot hit unlike some hits at longer distances.

[frank]

if it was with an .338 Lapua it IS/was a good shot.

[JMA]

Daily Express
8/9/09

A SCOTTISH soldier has been praised for making the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan after shooting a top Taliban fighter from almost a mile away.
Corporal Christopher Reynolds took out the Afghan drug lord during some of the hardest fighting of the war so far.

The 25-year-old, of 3 Scots, The Black Watch, kept watch on a shop rooftop for three days to eliminate the target.
But he admitted the top-level Taliban fighter – known as Musa – was so far away it took him a couple of attempts to get the aim right.

Initially Musa, who was with four men, did not even realise he was being shot at........

Why not take the guess work out of this and issue snipers with Laser Target pointers/designators for air strikes?

Oh silly me... by the time the 10 levels of authority for the air strike are obtained the Taliban would be long gone.

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Sniper Executes a Police Chief of Nuevo Leon with a .50 Caliber Rifle (Translation)

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Terrorist and Insurgent Teleoperated Sniper Rifles and Machine Guns

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Evolution of the Sniper Rifle

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[davidbfpo]

I have merged a small number of threads into this main thread, the catalyst being a recent SWJ article.

There are a few threads which refer to sniping, on a review they refer to a recent film or books and do not fit here.

There is a related thread:Are snipers and recon still valid in infantry battalions?

[davidbfpo]

Discovered this thread and six others had migrated to another irrelevant arena and so were moved back here. The Search function stills failed to find this thread.

[davidbfpo]

Via SWJ Twitter a pointer to an Australian blogsite's short book review:https://groundedcuriosity.com/book-r...tions-history/