Page 34 - Bugle Autumn 2014

Sniper firing Match 43 at the AOSC
competitors from the Special Forces of China, Jordan, Armenia, Russia, the USA and Pakistan all against the elite 1 RIFLES pair.
Two of the four made it into the Army 100 with LCpl Stanton coming 10th
Canadians. However the snipers were happy that we still managed to defend our title for having the best Sniper number one and best sniper pair in the British Armed Forces.
Sniper pair setting up for their first shot
‘Send it’ Sniper and Spotter ready to fire
Shooting
Ex GOLDEN OWL is an annual sniper competition held just outside the city of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. This is the second year 1 RIFLES has entered the competition having also competed in 2011. This year a last minute transport issue denied the team the ability to take their own weapons and they had to therefore compete with weapons provided by the Kazakh Army.
Arriving, the international element of the competition was evident with all sorts of uniforms and languages
present. There were
perform again this year! The competition is shot from ranges of over 1000m all the way down to 3m on a mix of gallery ranges and field firing areas; the snipers used all the weapon systems they would deploy with on operations; .338 sniper rifle, SA80 rifle and Glock pistol for the number 1; 7.62mm Sniper support weapon and Glock pistol for the number 2.
We won best sniper number 1 and best British sniper pair, only losing out on the silverware for best sniper pair to the
The pair from 1 RIFLES were sufficiently happy with the result - 3rd behind only the local team and the team from China, both of whom were firing their own weapon systems.
Back in the UK the Battalion has had another strong year. The first competition we entered was the Tri Service Shooting Competition (TSSC). Having won best sniper, best sniper pair, 2nd best sniper number 2 and a number of 1st and 2nd places in the individual shoots at last years TSSC we had a lot of extra pressure to
Two of the four made with LCpl Stanton
it into the Army 100
coming 10th. We won a trophy for the highest combined pistol score as a team, LCpl Stanton was selected for the Army
8 and keeps his place in the British Army Combat Shooting Team for the 2014/15 season and the remaining 3 were all selected for development or reserve teams in a number of shoots.
Capt Jo Murray, Platoon Commander, Reconnaissance Platoon & By Sjt Josh Seemayer, Platoon commander, Snipers.
32 FIRST BATTALION
THE RIFLES