GPS Sniper School

Sniper School Featured on ‘DVD on TV’ on FX during “Next” with Nicholas Cage

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:55:49 +0000

During the behind the scenes explanations of the movie ‘Next’ with Nicholas Cage on FX’s program ‘DVD on TV’, Dave Holmes visits our very own Sniper School!

Stay tuned for footage of Dave’s experiences at GPS Defense Sniper School. Dave learns the basics, produces some very funny footage, and and helps Bill explain some movie myth sniper mistakes.

GPS Defense Consulted for Washington Post Article

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:34:17 +0000

We were recently contacted for sniper related information for a Washington Post online article at Slate.com. With all of the talk about snipers in the news recently, they came to us as the subject matter experts to help them discover what considerations are made during a sniper mission.

More Courses Added!

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:55:59 +0000

Thanks to our recent feature on the Discovery Channel, we have to add even more classes to our training schedule to keep up with demand! We have added the following classes to the calendar and they are already filling up fast. Check out our course descriptions and calendar for details.

Sniper Experience May 16-17

Warfighter Sniper Course June 01-11

Warfighter Sniper Course July 27-Aug 06

Sniper / Counter Sniper Oct 05-09
Advanced Sniper Oct 11-12
Sniper Instructor Oct 13-14

Warfighter Sniper Course Oct 19-29

Sniper Experience Oct 31-Nov 01

Our Sniper Training Featured on Discovery Channel!

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:10:52 +0000

Judging by the 3000 visits to our site during the first airing, and the 5000 visits during subsequent airings, of our school featured on Wreckreation Nation on the Discovery Channel, many of you already have seen the segment where the host attends our school during an actual sniper class.

If you have not seen the episode yet, you may see the viewing schedule on Discovery’s site BY CLICKING HERE, or you may view the video of the segment soon BY CLICKING HERE.

Sniper Rifle Performance Package

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:16:39 +0000

Our rifles are custom designed based upon our school’s 11-year experience teaching hundreds of students in 12 to 15 sniper courses per year - not by sitting in an office discussing ideas.

Why are we selling 18″ and even 16″ sniper rifles? Because we actually shot these rifles with our students on the range and saw and recorded the results. Why aren’t other manufacturers? Obviously they never went to the range and tried it. We feel our students performance is more valid info than a computer ballistic program and lots of discussion - and apparently so do our students who requested we build these rifles. Let’s all wait and see how long it takes until other manufacturers come up with their “new and great idea”!

See the new Sniper Rifle page on our website.

New Shirts and Fleece Added!

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:34:29 +0000

Check out the Apparel Section of our Sniper Gear Store to purchase one of our new T-Shirts or GPS Defense Fleece today!

82nd Airborne Sniper Students Clearing Village

admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:29:48 +0000

Check out this video of 82nd Airborne Sniper Students assaulting our village during one of our courses.

After the 360 degree stalk and live fire exercise, the sniper support element approached and assaulted the village as the snipers stayed in position and over watched their movement.

Camouflage and Concealment

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:11:20 +0000

In this fun little video, you can see a preview of what it takes to employ proper sniper camouflage and concealment techniques. Watch the video and see how well a little bit of natural vegetation works on a sniper without a full ghillie suit.

FOX News Coverage of GPS Defense Sniper School

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:56:54 +0000

Here is a video we found in the archives of FOX News covering our school. The footage was filmed in 2003 while we had HS Precision Rifle Co. as our sponsor and before we had moved to our new facility.

November Sniper Class Shooting 1200+ yds

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:43:19 +0000

Here is a picture of our November Sniper Course shooting over 1200 yards. Anyone that has been through one of our courses can attest to our desire to focus on technique and skill over distance alone as a measure of ability. But, it is still nice to see our students shoot over 1200 yards across one of our valleys on our sniper training facility.

Look closely in the picture and you can see one of the students shooting 5.56! Yes, 77 grain 5.56 did hit reliably at over 1200 yards. Now, we know that many self proclaimed internet ballistics experts will call this impossible. We, and the students that shot and spotted the rounds, can say with real (not theoretical) certainty that not only is it possible, it was reliably repeated. The students shooting .308 (both 168gr. and 175gr.) were able to reliably hit the target with an average of 55 minutes of angle (100yd zero) on their scopes. Many of these .308 rifles have short barrels that many people believe ruins the rifle’s ability to perform at distance… this shows that this is just not true.

The student shooting the 5.56 was only able to hit the target by coming up the 55 minutes of angle that his scope would allow and then holding over an additional 4.5 mils for a total of 70 minutes of angle. This data was used in our very next class for some more 5.56 shooters and it worked for them just as well.

Come on out and we’ll let you shoot it too.