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Ovenpaa wrote:I have shot alongside numerous police firearms officers over the years. The ones really that stood out were what was known as SO19 at the time. They were all hugely professional and capable shots.

Ironically I shot alongside an SO19 officer at this years Imperial McQueens match; forget his name but he was doing very well when I left.

Dark Skies wrote:Gosh! Who knew that at 100 yards my Mossie M44 was up to the job of arming a police marksmen. I was always very impressed with the old cannon being capable of this (admittedly shot from a bench and having done quite a bit of barrel floating). I'm doubly impressed now.

I was thinking the same thing of my '39 91/30......save the police a fortune if they just issued them with old Mosins!!!.

Ovenpaa wrote:I have shot alongside numerous police firearms officers over the years. The ones really that stood out were what was known as SO19 at the time. They were all hugely professional and capable shots.

Was D11 back in my day (or rather my late fathers) and it was one of the original D11 instructors trained by the Small Arms Wing of the School of Infantry in the late 60's that first taught me to shoot as a teenager. That was only 6 months after he was one of the Met's Enforcer sniper team deployed at the Balcombe Street siege.

Funnily enough, I read that the USMC scout sniper qualification shoot has changed - they no longer go for head shots and a hit on the 6" x 4" torso is enough.

breacher wrote:Funnily enough, I read that the USMC scout sniper qualification shoot has changed - they no longer go for head shots and a hit on the 6" x 4" torso is enough.

Soviet Russian/Russian Federation sniper (equivalent to Western Designated Marksman) doctrine has always been centre mass shots, has changed a bit since they have incorporated true snipers equipped with SV-98, Orsis and AI bolt action sniper rifles.