Marine Scout/Sniper

Okay, I've wanted to be a marine sniper since I was about... 9, and I've learned as much as I can find on the subject of snipers, hell I can tell you the range and MOA for the windage with a mil dot scope and the dimensions of the target in hieght and width, I've even gone as far as to have built my own ghillie suit by hand just for the exsperiance of it. But I want to know more, I've read the books, Shooter, Sniper, and Silent Warrior (and planning on getting Marine Sniper pretty soon.) Do any of you know of any good web sites or books I can check out? and do you know where I can find a copy of the U.S. Marine Corpse Scout/Sniper training manual? I'm trying to learn as much as I can on the subject in an attempt to make Sniper school as pain free as possible if I ever make it...

I've built my own ghillie, quite the experience.

I have a few books on sniping, but nothing that your looking for it looks like.

It seems like to much work to make a ghille.

It is a lot of work, it took me forever, and it was really hard to keep my self motivated (i have a.d.d.) but better to do it now and know a little bit of what I'm doing then show up in Sniper school with a  look on my face, I learned a lot from that project that'll come in handy

   If you want to make STA School you better put as much time Running & walking long distances with a lot of weight as you do reading and doing Grunt Arts & Crafts. Thou just a bit of advise from a Marine.

   Make sure your a good Marine before you start to think all High Speed Scuba Snipa. After all Scout Snipers are picked from within your Battalion. So unless you make the Indoc (test) all the books and time making guillie suits wont amount to much.

   I tell the same to all the guys who sign up with dreams of Special Forces and Rainbow Six games. Make sure your the best basic Marine Rifleman you can be before you go all crazy for STA.

__sneaky__ wrote: kickinwing2010 wrote: LOL...could you imagine a sniper with a severe case of add. lol... yes actually... trust me, I've tried doin it in airsoft, I can keep myself alert as long as I know they're within range of hearing me or somthing, but otherwise i just get distracted and shoot at squirells or somthing... I'm hoping it tones down a bit before then...

Ya I have some friends with add and it is really funny to play airsoft with them. Especially if they forget to take there medication.

__sneaky__ wrote: Evil Elvis wrote:    If you want to make STA School you better put as much time Running & walking long distances with a lot of weight as you do reading and doing Grunt Arts & Crafts. Thou just a bit of advise from a Marine.    Make sure your a good Marine before you start to think all High Speed Scuba Snipa. After all Scout Snipers are picked from within your Battalion. So unless you make the Indoc (test) all the books and time making guillie suits wont amount to much.    I tell the same to all the guys who sign up with dreams of Special Forces and Rainbow Six games. Make sure your the best basic Marine Rifleman you can be before you go all crazy for STA. Ya, I've spent a lot more time working out then I used too, and I've gotten a lot stronger. Still worken on that running thing... winter and I dont get along well since I'm too stupid to wear anything but short sleaves. And dont get me wrong, I'm not one of those kids who played ghost recon or rainbow 6 and went "AWSOME! IMA DO THAT!" I know that the differance between video game snipers and real snipers is VERY differant. I've just always been fasinated with them and one day figured "hey, why not" P.S. got any tips to help me starting a running/jogging routine?

Have you ever tried the game sniper elite, its really fun because you have to factor in wind and bullet drop when you take your shot. Also it doesn't have very good graphics but its really fun.

SNIPER!

Tolgak wrote: Memory. I'm no expert, but from what I've heard and read your memory needs to be very high. They play memory games at sniper school that go to crazy extents.

 

Edited by carl_the_sniper - 09 January 2007 at 12:17am

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