GPS Defense Sniper School

These rifles are available in our online sniper store as well as for rent in one of our sniper courses. While we do have 6 of these specific rifles for rent, we encourage you to contact us and rent them early due to their popularity, low rental cost, and overlapping sniper courses. Or, get your very own now and be able to take it home with you.

Our Custom Sniper Rifles come with a very unique guarantee. Many sniper rifle manufacturers slap a bunch of match grade parts together and claim an accuracy guarantee on the rifle. These "parts" rifles are overpriced and rarely produce shot groups consitent with their guarantee. This is not due to the rifles being sub-standard, it is due to the ability of the person shooting the rifle.

Bolt Face and Lugs Squared and Trued Return to Diagram

Bolt lugs from the factory are not always trued leading to inconsistent contact within the receiver when a round is fed into the chamber. We often see evidence of this with uneven wear on the bolt lugs after moderate use. In order to solve this problem, we square and true all contact surfaces on the bolt face and lugs to ensure consistent contact within the action of the rifle.

The interaction of the bolt, chamber and cartridge must be consistent to ensure accuracy. We often see un-evenly cut actions resulting in barrels tilting from the receiver and inconsistent headspace with the bolt face. We square and true all of our actions to negate the potential problems with fit and accuracy of the rifle.
 

Barrel cut to 18" and Target Crowned Return to Diagram

26" barrels on sniper rifles are unnecessary. We have pioneered our 18" sniper rifle after seeing numerous students through many classes use our shortened barrel sniper rifles. Not only are our shorter barrels able to keep up with longer barreled rifles in terms of accuracy, they actually surpass them when practical use is considered. Our decision to use 18" comes not from ballistic theory, but rather much trial on the range.

Recoil Lug Squared Return to Diagram

The recoil lug is responsible for proper retention of the action within the stock. When we see un-even recoil lugs, the actions do not sit squarely within the bedding block and the action can twist as it recoils causing barrel and action strikes and inconsistent shot placement. We see uneven wear on the recoil lug showing inconsistent surface to surface contact
 

Heavy Duty Extruded Action Screws  Return to Diagram

The action screws that come with rifles from the factory are too soft and too small. These factory screws have been known to strip when being properly torqued into the action and the rear of the two screws has actually been known to stretch due to the weak metal used. We replace these screws with hardened and larger steel screws that provide a strong and secure hold, with larger and easier to use bolt heads.
 

Action Glass Bedded into Bedding Block  Return to Diagram

Although the stocks we use have full length aluminum bedding blocks, there is still a large variation in fit with all of the inconsistencies that exist. This allows the action to move within the stock during firing as seen by wear marks on the stock. To provide a perfect mating surface for the action within the stock, we skim bed the aluminum bedding block with bedding fiberglass and create a truly custom fit for each action and stock.
 

The factory trigger is the most reliable and consistent trigger we have ever seen for practical sniper applications. Fancy aftermarket triggers may work well on the range, but are famous for malfunctioning once in harsh and realistic environments. We custom tune each trigger to a crisp 3 lbs since any lighter risks safety issues in tactical environments and any heavier makes proper trigger control difficult.

Excess Finish Removed from Bedding Block  Return to Diagram

Factory finish on the rear of the bedding block causes the entire barreled action to tilt forward within the stock. This allows the barrel to be far enough away from the stock to appear free-floated from the factory, but close enough to strike the stock during firing. We see obvious wear marks where the end of the stock is repeatedly struck by the barrel on rifles that have this build up. We remove this build up and allow the action to sit in the stock as it was designed and allow the barrel to be truly free-floated.
 

Internal Magazine Capacity Increased  Return to Diagram

With a bolt action rifle with an internal magazine, the shooter is limited to the number of rounds that fit inside of the rifle. We modify the internal magazine to increase the capacity from four to five rounds.

Tactical One Piece Base  Return to Diagram

What makes a base tactical? Well, we only use bases made from the best quality material and machined to the highest tolerances for consistency and stregth. Our base is a one piece base for durability with 20 minutes of angle already added in. This elevation is very important since your zero setting on your scope may not allow you the thirty plus minutes of elevation needed to engage targets past 900 yards.
This is just one more example of what is standard for us, is not for others. We know you will need a quality base despite what scope and rings you prefer so we give you one.
 

Tactical Scope and Rings *NOT INCLUDED*  Return to Diagram

Quality rings are crucial to achieving accuracy out of a rifle since they are machined to maintained perfect surface to surface contact out of quality metals. Tactical Rings are those that can serve a sniper in harsh tactical environments such as sturdy non-quick detach rings for durability.

The best sniper rifle in the world is useless without a quality optic. Having good enough glass to identify targets and consistent tactile adjustments that return the reticle to the same setting each time it is desired are crucial.