Category: sniper tactics
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How to : Counter Sniper
Sparked by a question, put to a sniper, on a recent podcast. “How do we take you out?” (risky question to answer). If I was in that seat, I don’t think I’d be giving any secrets away. Certainly nothing useful. However, it is a situation that crops up quite often at skirmish – getting rid…
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Epic Sniper Fails
This isn’t one of those compilation YouTube videos, don’t worry. What I want to do with this article is highlight a lot of common mistakes, both with kit selection, camouflage, and tactics, as opposed to all the articles online about how to do things right. It should be equally as useful to talk about what…
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Concealment and Cover
Staying hidden is the key to staying alive as a sniper. I keep reinforcing that idea through all the articles I do. If you’re alive, you’re still able to cause the enemy team problems. If you get spotted and get hit, it’s a long walk back to respawn and then all that effort put into…
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The Role
What it isn’t, and what it is… For some new snipers, there is the assumption that they have in their hands some kind of game-changing super weapon, able to score headshots from the other side of the site, with which they will pick of the entire enemy team single handedly wearing an invisibility suit, and…
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Movement and Positioning
How you move around the site, and how you position yourself, will ultimately dictate whether you are spotted or not, and also whether you’re able to cause the enemy problems and losses. Sometimes, either from arriving early, extended lunch breaks or technical failures ruling you out of a game, there is opportunity to walk around…
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Kitting Up
Turning up in jeans and a shirt might be ok for a trip to the shops, but if you want to be a sniper, you’re going to need the kit to do it. It’s usually thought of as the most expensive role, but really isn’t if you know what you’re looking for. Your kit should…
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Airsoft Sniper Tactics
There are lots of guides out there for rifles. As many again for making effective camouflage. But simply standing there at a site in a nice ghillie suit taking pot shots with your shiny new rifle isn’t going to get you very far. You need to know what to do. And you want to be…
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Shot Selection
Ultimately, we’re not just here to look and act like potted plants. We still want to shoot people, and there’s a lot more to it than just pointing the gun and pulling the trigger. I’ve always advised players to build their rifles up from scratch so they get a better understanding of how it works…
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Snipers vs…
2019 has drawn to a close and in the last blog (link), I talked about a few ideas myself and the Sniperworks team are looking at for 2020. And it’s not just to keep busy. The Airsoft field, in my time in the game, has changed dramatically. Once upon a time, gun upgrades weren’t really…
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The 7 S’s of Camouflage
(featured image – Raw War, Carlisle) Can’t remember how many there are to be honest, so I’ll go with the 7 that i can remember/may have made up. These are the things you need to think about in the field. Having a good ghillie suit or camouflage system is only half of the battle. You need…
