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Can you spot the snipers?

In most of them I can, but I had a great teacher who taught me shooting and camo skills, which gives me an advantage.
 
lizzie said:
In most of them I can, but I had a great teacher who taught me shooting and camo skills, which gives me an advantage.
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Wow, Lizzie, that's awesome. I pity the fool who's targetted by one, though. He'd never even hear the shot that killed him.
 
I got him on 4 and 2 others had the wrong side of the right hide.

The one in the rocks was scary because I wouldn't even have been looking for him.
 
Lutherf said:
I got him on 4 and 2 others had the wrong side of the right hide.

The one in the rocks was scary because I wouldn't even have been looking for him.
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I wonder if companies/groups/whatever have "Where's-The-Sniper Spotters" . . . Oh, wait, they could use heat signatures . . . Hmmm . . .
 
Wow- I got 3 out of the 4!
 
pretty cool
 
MaggieD said:
Wow, Lizzie, that's awesome. I pity the fool who's targetted by one, though. He'd never even hear the shot that killed him.
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that's why one of my rifles has a thermal imaging scope on it. as technology increases, snipers are going to become less and less valuable since they will be easier and easier to locate and take out with "smart munitions" such as proximity fused shells
 
joG said:
I think I had better keep out of situations, where my life depends on spotting the sniper or get myself some training.
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I'm with you. I sucked at Where's Waldo, too.
 
MaggieD said:
I wonder if companies/groups/whatever have "Where's-The-Sniper Spotters" . . . Oh, wait, they could use heat signatures . . . Hmmm . . .
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The school I used to work for did a lot of 'spot the sniper'. Also put the senior instructor out there in jeans, blue shirt and red ball cap with his scoped rifle. The students couldn't find him as he radio'd what we were doing and the cards I held up. Eye opener when a guy not 'rambo'd' up can melt away. Movement is the killer, a bush moving is wrong. This is why still pics are more stunts than tools. There were times I spotted the sniper not because I saw him, I didn't, I saw his camo didn't move in the wind like the rest of the veggie.

Thermal imagining is great but not fool proof. Fatigue from constant operations and eye fatigue on the scope can severely limit effectiveness. There can be quite a few false heat sources that distract and masking can distort the heat signature so the operator thinks it is just another critter. I had a student sneaking up on the 1K known distance range. I could see his feet and calves under the steel 700 yard target but since they were a glowing spot it looked like a critter to me. He was good at using terrain to mask his signature, and when he moved into his firing position he was again just a head facing me, the cooler scope and barrel helping to distort that. Only the blank's over dramatic flash gave him away. Given that in most environments there will be all manner of critters out at night, it would be difficult to shoot them all, not to mention give your position away for a nice brace of mortar rounds. (most bad guys have more than rifles on their side)

That said one of the most effective sniper/arty spotter is a Cobra laser detector. It signals when you are being tagged by a laser, either range finder or target designator.

You can make them directional so you have a zone to check out if a detector goes off.

Art and science with some imagination. :peace
 
TurtleDude said:
that's why one of my rifles has a thermal imaging scope on it. as technology increases, snipers are going to become less and less valuable since they will be easier and easier to locate and take out with "smart munitions" such as proximity fused shells
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Aircraft use(d)(may be something similar but different now) FLIR, Forward Looking InfraRed. We had a blast playing with those, and seeing how you could see people through things.
 
I think maggie is training us to take over the world :P
 
Couldn't spot a single one but I'm guessing none of them could see me either! :)
 
If you can spot a sniper, he's **** at his job. Jus' sayin'.
 
DVSentinel said:
Nope. If she was, she would not be helping you learn to spot the sniper. She would be on the side of sniper and want him/her to stay hidden.
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There are many dumb things a sniper can do to end up dead. leave a snail trail, flash glass (some use an ARD), snore or think you are the only sniper out there.

Never think you are alone, never think you aren't being hunted by someone who knows what they are doing. Much of a sniper's job is counter sniper. Being bad at finding Waldo can turn a sniper into a hero for his country.

One big bozo no-no some of the guys in the pics did was getting out on a island. Foolish he be to not have a covered or at least concealed way out of the FP. Foolish he be to think one or two bad guys will wander into his kill zone and die in place. Foolish he be to think a company size element won't move up his throat on patrol.

The ability to slink away to snipe another day is as important as the ability to read mirage.
 
TurtleDude said:
that's why one of my rifles has a thermal imaging scope on it. as technology increases, snipers are going to become less and less valuable since they will be easier and easier to locate and take out with "smart munitions" such as proximity fused shells
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Whats the range on a Thermal? Haven't really looked at them because, at least for deer, you cannot hunt at night.
 
The bushes below the tree's in otherwise clear grass were a giveaway. No other trees had them.
 
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