Advanced Sniper & Instructor Program

This innovative program teaches advanced sniper tactics and operational marksmanship skills. A strong emphasis is placed on urban sniping, the construction of urban hides, engagement of moving targets and targets at unknown distances, cold bore stress shots, fieldcraft/stalking, deployment skills, scenarios, establishing a sniper training matrix, and sniper instructional methods.

There are no prerequisites to attend this program.  However, attendees seeking Sniper Instructor Certification must have successfully completed the OpTac International Police Sniper Program and possess instructor certification (in any area) from their own jurisdiction or state training commission.

Subject Areas:

• Operating in an urban environment
• Construction of urban hides
• Establishing a sniper training matrix
• Proper shooting positions
• Effects of shooting through glass
• Positioning and camouflage/concealment techniques
• Sniper coding/reporting systems
• Tactical diagramming
• Fieldcraft/stalking
• Overcoming the environment
• Engagement of moving targets
• Low-light/nighttime live-fire
• Target identification exercises
• Range estimation and range estimation exercises
• Command-fire exercises
• Guidelines for sniper utilization and deployment
• Safety training standards and protocol
• Pedagogy
• Instructional techniques
• Live-fire shooting exercises used to simulate actual emergency response operations
• Scenarios