Here we look at the obstacles that stand between a sniper and their target, and how they adjust to land the shot. Gravity At short distances, up to metres, a shooter can line a shot up, pull the trigger and, all other factors accounted for, can hit what appears in the crosshairs.
The shooter then has to aim above the target in order to hit it. The further from your target, the greater the elevation. Keith Cunningham, a marksmanship instructor in Minden, Ont.
This lets the shooter look straight at the target and still have the bullet fire above that. He estimates the shooter would have had to holdover—a term for aiming above the target—by about 70 metres on top of adjusting for elevation on the rifle. Wind As soon as the bullet leaves the barrel, any movement of air causes it to drift. Like a canoeist fighting a current, you need to aim beyond the destination in order to compensate for the forces working against you.
Some snipers may have the hand-held anemometer that calculates the wind speed more accurately, but only in their own vicinity. Spindrift When a bullet is fired, it spins like a drill-bit towards its target, and depending which way it spins, the bullet will drift left or right.
The amount of drift also depends which way the wind is coming from and how much distance the bullet is traveling. For example, at about 1, metres, with no wind, a bullet with a right-hand spin will drift about a metre to the right.
If the wind is coming from the left, you have to add an additional metre two metres total per 1, metres of range to compensate for that wind pull. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal - John F. A sniper can wait up to 72 hours without sleeping. Share on Facebook. Edit Delete. Facebook Disqus. Permalink: A sniper can wait up to 72 hours without sleeping. Added: October 09, Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. Part of the reason for this may be that snipers can see their targets with great clarity and sometimes must observe them for hours or even days.
She studied attitudes to killing among 30 Israeli snipers who served in the Palestinian territories from to , to examine whether killing is unnatural or traumatic for human beings.
She chose snipers in particular because, unlike pilots or tank drivers who shoot at big targets like buildings, the sniper picks off individual people. What she found was that while many Israeli soldiers would refer to Palestinian militants as "terrorists", snipers generally referred to them as human beings. Snipers almost never referred to the men they killed as targets, or used animal or machine metaphors.
Some interviewees even said that their victims were legitimate warriors. This justification - which was supported by friends, family and wider Israeli society - could be one reason why the snipers didn't report any trauma after killing, she suggests. She also noted that the snipers she studied were rational and intelligent young men. In most military forces, snipers are subject to rigorous testing and training and are chosen for aptitude.
In the UK, they complete a three-month training course, with a pass rate of only one in four. Research in Canada has also found that snipers tend to score lower on tests for post-traumatic stress and higher on tests for job satisfaction than the average soldier.
But both the Israeli and the Canadian studies only spoke to snipers who were still on active duty. Neta Bar suspects many of them could experience problems in years to come, after they return to normal society.
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