Sniper Central Blog

To all those that have and are now currently serving in the Armed Forces, thank you and happy Veteran’s Day. For those that are now serving, your service does not go unnoticed and for those that served in the past, your service will not be forgotten.

MEL
“Why is the sky blue? Because God loves the Infantry”

The 9th annual International Sniper Competition was conducted at Ft Benning in October with a 31 team field including US Army Rangers, USMC Snipers, National Guardsmen, UK Snipers, several Law Enforcement teams and Special Operations as well as some others from around the world. A team from the USMC took first followed by a teams from Ft. Knox, Special Forces, and then 82nd Airborne.

For those of you that have not noticed, we have started making durable and high quality ballistic cards for various rounds. You can see them here:

http://www.snipercentral.com/shop/index.php?cPath=133

We just added the Federal GMM and HSM 30-06 Springfield 168gr match loads and are getting ready to add a few more 30-06 loads and the HSM 308 168gr AMAX load.

The cards include range and wind data in both MOA and Mils as well as comeups between each range in both MOA and Mils. Something unique we put on the cards is a mil BDC chart as well. What this does is give you the range at which the mildots will be right on at if you were to zero at the provided range and then hold over for each dot. The idea came from there being so many scopes out there with mildots I figured I would go ahead and provide the holdover ranges for those dots.

I specifically am looking for feed back on these cards as well as which cartridge loadings to do next. I want to make these cards as useful and beneficial as possible so please let me know what you think. Email is probably best:

mele@snipercentral.com

thanks!

MEL

The Sniper Central server will be going down for maintenance on the morning of Halloween, 10/31/2009 at 0700 MDT for security and hardware updates. The expected down time is about 2 hours.

sorry for the inconvenience

MEL

This popped up on the Military.com website…. not bad

Military.com video

MEL

The Sniper Central site will be down for about 3 hours starting at 22:00 Mountain Time for server maintenance and upgrades. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Remington has purchased Dakota Arms, maker of the longbow and perhaps more importantly, makers of the steel bottom metal on the M24SWS. I did not see any reference to the terms of the sale.

It is with sadness that we announce that Walter Birdsong, the creator of the Black-T and Green-T firearms finishes, passed away this morning. Our condolences go out to his family and we wish them all the best. Thanks Walter for everything you did and for the many years of support you gave the firearms community.

MEL

According to the Defense Industry Daily, the US Army has ordered 38.4 million rounds of 300 Win Mag sniper ammo and is in the process of converting the M24 over to 300 Win Mag. It appears that the US Army will deploy both the 300 Win Mag M24 SWS in conjunction with the 7.62 NATO M110 SASS. This will provide a formidable duo and make the sniper teams very effective in many environments. I like this arrangement and it extends the life of the already purchased M24 rifles. It is a stop gap measure, but one I think should work well. The 300 WM will not have the range of a 338 Lapua, but it far exceeds the 7.62×51 NATO and M118LR ammo.

MEL

Tactical Operations has just recently announced that they have made their titanium suppressors available to the general public. TacOps has been making titanium suppressors, at about half the weight of steel suppressors, for the LE and Military markets for a number of years but now they have made them available to the general public. To find out more about these cans, you can contact TacOps directly.

TacticalOperations.com

We will be reviewing one of these cans along with a XRay-51 in the next few weeks.