Beginners Sniping Guide

Prone Position
(For Right-Handed Shooter’s)

Lay down flat on your stomach.
Extend your left arm straight out, infront of you with your palm faceing upward.
Your right elbow is placed on the ground so your shoulders are level.
(Make sure that your body weight is well behind the rifle.)
Your left leg needs to be fully extended behind you (vertical with the spinal column)
With your right leg, make a 45 degree angle.
Both feet should rest naturally on the ground
Your cheek needs to be pressed against rifle stock or "butt" of the rifle to make what we like to call the "chipmunk cheek".



The 3 Elements of a Good Shooting Position

Bone Support- Your body’s skeletal structure will provide a stable foundation to support the rifle’s weight, but only if in the correct position. A week shooting position will not withstand the repeated recoil of a rifle, therefore causing the shooter’s rifle to become much heavier. The bones of your body must support as much of the rifles weight as possible, to relieve the strain on your musles holding the rifle in one position for a long perriod of time.

Muscular Relaxation- Muscular is a very important part of shooting. Muscular relaxation helps you the shooter to hold steady and increase the accuracy of aiming. This also allows you to the use of maximum bone support to build a resistance to recoil.

Natural Point of Aim- The NPA (or Natural Point of Aim) is the point at witch the rifle sights settle when bone support and muscular relaxation are achieved.



Breathing

Breath Control- Breath control is interrupting the breathing cycle just before the shot is fired to cause minimum movement of the scope while firing.

Breathing Cycle- This is the inhaling and exhaling of witch lasts about 4 to 5 seconds. Between breathing cycles, there is a natural pause on the exhale of 2 to 3 seconds. This is the natural repertory pause. During the respiratory pause, breathing muscles are relaxed and your scope should settle at the natural point of aim. The shot must be fired at this exact point!



Trigger Control

Trigger Control- is the skillful manipulation of the trigger that causes the rifle to fire without moving the crosshairs. (I no shit had to shoot 1000’s of rounds to master this skill)

Uninterrupted Trigger Control- This is after the initial slack of the trigger is taken up (the pulling on the trigger before it fires), the trigger is pulled with single, smooth motion straight to the rear with no interruption.

Interrupted Trigger Control- After the initial slack is taken up, the trigger is moved to the rear unless an error is detected in the aiming process. When this occurs, reward motion is stopped until sight picture is achieved. Then the rearward motion continues until the shot breaks.



How to Find the Wind Velocity

(This requires you to set up a small, lightweight flag or peice of cloth near the target. Or you can look around the target for something that you can improvise with)
If you don’t know, the wind velocity determin’s the bullets trajectory (or path of the bullet)and also how many "clicks" you move left, right, up or down in your scope to adjust for the wind.
To find the wind velocity, here is the formula; The appromixate angle of the flag divided by 4= And you will find the MPH (Miles per hour)



How to Find the Wind Strength

0 to 3 MPH- The wind can hardly be felt on the face.

3 to 5 MPH- Wind can be felt lightly on the face.

5 to 8 MPH- Wind keeps tree leaves in constant motion.

8 to 12 MPH- Wind will raise dust and loose paper.

12 to 15 MPH- Wind will cause small trees to sway.

15 to 25 MPH- Wind will cause large trees to sway.

Determining the Correct Windage Adjustments

(This is hard to do at first so be patiant. And believe me when I say I tried to simplify this as much as possible!)
1. Guess the best you can to the distance to target and multiply that by wind velocity (MPH)
2. Divide by the range of the wind direction
3. The total you come up with equals the clicks you need to put into your scope.
4. For ½ value wind, divide total number of clicks by two.