Training Name: | Basic Sniper |
Dates: | 10/09/2023 - 10/13/2023 |
Venue: |
Northern Ohio Tactical Training Center - NOTTC Amherst, Ohio 44001 |
Price: | $600 |
Instructors: |
Darren Smykowski Ted Morley Ian Foos Victor Hakes |
The OTOA Basic Sniper School commences with classroom instruction, covering essential topics such as equipment selection, setup, ammunition selection, and a comprehensive internal, external, and terminal ballistics review.
The range instruction component focuses on honing fundamental marksmanship skills. This includes training on alternative shooting positions, zeroing a rifle, mastering grouping techniques, and ensuring precise scope tracking.
Live-fire exercises and function drills are strategically designed to evaluate the reliability of the rifle/optic combination in real field conditions.
Students will engage paper and steel targets up to 300 yards (range dependent) using a variety of improvised positions.
The course concludes with a preventative maintenance and equipment care session, ensuring a holistic understanding of sniper operations.
Any of the following three options is acceptable:
If you are allergic to bees, outdoor plants, or animals, please bring your epinephrine pen or other medication.
Life-threatening allergies and pre-existing injuries or conditions must be reported to the OTOA training staff on day one of training.
Day 1
0800-1000 - Paperwork, Waivers, Intros, Basic Sniper Power Point Scope Theory
1000-1030 - Shooting Positions/Marksmanship
1030 -1100- Data Books/Cold Bore
1100- 1130- Ballistics
1130- 1200- Weapons Maintenance/Weapon breakdown/Explain torque specs
1200- 1230 Lunch
1230- 1245- Prone Demo/ Show Press Check/ Explain Ocular adjustment
1245- 1345- Check Rifles/ Confirm Zeros at 25 yards
1445- 1630ish (End of Day) - Range Time
Day 2
0800-0845 - MIL/MOA Range Estimation/Range Card PPT
0845-0930 - Mil-Dot Range Estimation Exercise
0930- 1030 - Sniper Deployment/Equipment
1030-1100 - Camouflage/ Urban hides
1100- 1200 - Greenside Concealment Exercise
1200- 1630ish (End of Day) Range Time
Day 3
0800-0830- ASA Data
0830-0900 - Legal
0900- 1000 - Sniper Shooting Debrief
1000-1100 - Observation/Intel/Kims Game
1100-1200- Kims Game / Observation Exercise
1200- 1630ish (End of Day) Range Time
Day 4
0800-1000 - Multi-Jurisdictional Ops and Moving Targets
1000- 1600 Range Time
1600- 1630 – TEST Review
Day 5
0800- 0900- TEST
0900 - 1300 Range time
1100- 1300 - Moving Targets
1300- 1400 - Instructor Critiques need to be completed before the Certificate will be available on the OTOA website: Present Top Gun Certificate/ Hand out Coins
The course cost does not include ammunition, lodging, transportation, and food.