Sniper’s 2,245-yd Sure-Shot System
Special Response Team Members T&E CheyTac’s New .408 and training facilities to sharpen their skills and develop their agency’s new program.
In mid-August, early one Sunday morning, my friend and fellow law-enforcement sniper and I boarded a flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Arco, Idaho. We had been invited to CheyTac’s factory and training facility to learn first-hand the capabilities of the CheyTac .408 weapon system. We had the same desire: to learn and experience long-range shooting.
We both have had our share of operational sniping, but to be able to shoot beyond 600 yards was a novelty. While my friend had developed and incorporated the use of big-bore rifles into his agency’s special weapons teams, and was one of the folks that helped our team establish our program, the use of these types of rifles systems for special application is relatively limited in the law enforcement special operations community. The opportunity to train with experienced long-range shooters and new weapons platforms was not an occasion we wanted to turn down.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
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