Shooting Skills: Prone Position Shooting Tips from USAMU
The First Shot, the CMP’s online magazine, features a well-written article on Prone Shooting Technique by SPC Matthew Sigrist of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU). The article covers all the major points of gun hold and body position: hand position, elbow position, stock weld, buttstock placement, and sling position/tension.
SPC Matt Sigrist of the USAMU breaks down the prone position into “fundamentals” and explains how you put each element together to create a stable body position: “The fundamentals are the building blocks of a position. Much like the framework of a house, a correct application of the fundamentals ensures a solid and stable structure. Since each person’s position will depend on their particular body build and shape, there is no ‘perfect position’ that applies to everyone. Experience, practice and knowledge of the correct fundamentals will dictate the best position for you.”
SPC Sigrist also demonstrates the two basic variations of the leg position when shooting prone: open/spread legged, and bent-legged.
For any service rifle, highpower, cross-course, or prone shooter, this helpful article can improve your performance in the prone position.
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Military snipers are arguably some of the best practical marksmen on earth, do any nations that utilize snipers in combat issue special shooting jackets or gloves like those seen here to men “in the field?” Just curious.
Thats like comparing apples to oranges. The apparel a sniper uses is for a specific purpose. The jacket and glove that a competitive shooter uses is also for a specific purpose. Low crawling for a mile and half does not necessarily make an individual a great marksman.
Tony,
Your comment “Low crawling for a mile and a half does not necessarily make an invidual a great marksman”, is uncalled for and rude. It also disrespects a segmehttp://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/shooting-skills-prone-position-usamu/comment-page-1/#comment-41071nt of our military, the same people that have earned freedoms that you enjoy.
The longest successful sniper shot on record is over a mile! Most sniper shots are half a mile or less, with over a 98% completion rate. Frequently, this occurs after low crawling for long distances, then waiting for hours to take the shot, under the worst conditions.
Ever set up for a shot in the rain or the glairing snow,didn’t think so.
Competitive shooting is a great sport (been doing it for almost twenty years), but a sniper has abilities far beyond that of a competitive shooter.
Competitive shooters measure their distance from target in feet, a sniper measures in yards.
Who said that The Army Marksman Unit were snipers? being in this Unit does not a sniper make. Snipers may benefit from A.M.U. training But snipers and marksmen are different in many ways. just like bench-rest shooters may not be long range hunters