Sniper long range precision marksmanship course
Course training statement: “To train qualified basic snipers how to successfully engage enemy targets from medium to extreme long-distance ranges with precision small arms fire”
Course description: “The course provides the students with the essential skills, methods & techniques to produce effective mathematical shooting solutions in order to engage enemy targets from close to extreme long ranges (50-1350 metres+)”. It transitions the sniper operator from a basic level – advance level of understanding of ballistics, munitions and advance shooting techniques”
Course title: Sniper long range precision marksmanship course
Qualification: Sniper long range precision marksman
Course duration: 3 weeks
Teaching periods per day: 8
Length of teaching period: 40 minutes
Practical field exercises: Yes
Course entry standards
Rank: Qualified basic sniper (officers & soldiers)
Basic fitness test: 3.2 klm run
Endurance march: 16 klms with 15kg + weapon & fluids
Medical: Fit to attend arduous training
- Introduction to long range sniping
- Roles and responsibilities of a long-range sniper interdiction team
- The sniper team kit and equipment long range interdiction sniper team
- Internal ballistics
- External ballistics
- Terminal ballistics
- Different types of munitions
- The fundamentals of shooting
- Advance application of fire techniques
- Advance shooting stations
- Introduction to environmentals
- Wind speed & the wind clock
- Advance rifle scope
- The minute of angle, milradian & mil comparision
- Elevation tables, applied ballistics & accuracy first
- Sniper range set-up
- Mirage
- Fresh wind tables
- The scope reticle
- Moving targets
- Inclined angle shooting
- Shooting data books & the cold shot log
- Bore sighting, grouping & zeroing and slip scale procedures
- The scope line check & prediction of elevation tables
- Elementary application of fire 50-500 metres
- Advanced application of fire 600-1350 metres
- Sniper communication drills (spotter/observer & shooter)
- Detailed sniper range card revision
- Tactical feld sketching revision
- Range estimation revision
- Tactical panoramic live fire field shoot (50-1200 metres)
- The stand-off sniper ambush
- Sniper co-ordinated volley fire
- Live fire sniper ambush
- Live fire shooting test
- Low-light shooting
- Shooting battle-field obscuration & offset shooting