Exclusive access: Mastering marksmanship - module one of Royal Marines sniper school | Part one 

After WW2 the British army didn't believe snipers were a major requirement so cut back on training, the Royal Marines thought differently and invested heavily in sniper training going on to create the best course of its type in the armed forces. It had such a high reputation that when I served it was considered the goto course for snipers and you'd often find SAS troopers on it.

"... and effective at harassing a target out to 1500 meters" - excellent choice of words 😂

5:05 that hot brass down his sleeve… subconsciously saying to himself hmm, toasty! 💪🏼😅🫡

The sniper course was a part of PW Wing at what was ITCRM Lympstone when I was a platoon weapons Instructor there in the 1960s/early 1970s. It was, and still is, a very tough course and only the very best passed and earned the right to wear that coveted badge. My shooting was consistently graded as marksman on the range, but I never considered myself good enough to even apply for the sniper course. Respect to all that pass. Former Royal Marine.

Perhaps look at the British Army for accuracy skills seeing as they held records for a few long range kills over the years

My dad was inaugural head / in command of nz div sniper squad of eight? Italy 1944’ ww2 , and chose their missions ! 😅

1. Spin 360 degrees. 2. Shoot without using scope. 3. Shout "Yo Mamma!"

USMC sniper School 40 years ago, at least somebody else realized the value. Although we only shot at 1000 meters then.

Excellent video with lots of concise and accurate information. Well done

Yes, this is what I'm talking about. I take my hat off to you all who have served and who are serving still 🙏🏽🎯🔫

The kestrel meters even take in to account the Coriolis effect of the earth , cracking bit of kit .

Great content.

Great video. I would love to get my hands on this weapon system, I used the L96 A1 when I was a sniper. So obviously a long time ago. Well done to all these guys.

This was good I've seen the other marine sniper school doc on RU-vid which is good but this more modern and detailed.

Respect !

Hooray...The Marines

Barry Buddon ranges. Know them well. Remember dont shoot the golfers 😂😂

Briohny, (hope i spelled it correctly)always brings quality stories!

im lucky enough to own two of these rifles one in .338 and one in .308 great guns

excellent video.

Wow 🔥

Hakke looked good in this

This is the first animation that ive seen where they show the bullet dropping from the very second it leaves the barrel. Theres more people than you would ever believe that think the bullet rises above the center line of the barrel and then gradually drops as it travels, which is crazy but people really think thats what happens

On the left turret of the PM11 is parallax adjustment not 'focus' to term it focus decouples the term from the function which is to bring the reticle into the image plane in doing so eliminating eye alignment error.

Very nice. Providing of course, they dont leave their weapon on the training ground again.

Ai rifles are the best in the world, brilliant long-distance rifles

God bless America

fun fact. british army has an ice cream van. i guess they send it ahead of the news teams so people look happy on camera.

Very nice rifle and scopes, someday I'll splurge on an AI rifle.

4:29 Mad respect to the lefty sniper rockin the Casio F91W Series watch, that thing was my pride and joy back in my high school days just before graduation. I used my own $ from work delivering news papers by going house to house on my BMX bicycle at 5 AM in the mornings before heading to school like way back when in 1989. Instead of acquiring some extravagant and pricy timepiece on his wrist that would just scream 'over kill' he chose the minimalist (like a 14 dollar watch) mind set and focus his prioritizes on the primary tools at hand. Point being, you can def. learn a lil bit about a guy by the watch he wears.

Thanks for the sniper course. I feel like sniper...

When he's holding the kestrel for wind where they're shooting from, at long distances can't crosswinds be going different directions and strengths so how would you be able to make any scope adjustments for that?? This is a good documentary, the older one is good too.

Does anyone know if there's a part one?

Where are the nanomachines?

Casio F91W? Seen. Corps still paying the same old wages then, haha.

Simo said what?

We shoot foxes and crows at those ranges, foxes for pest control and crows for fun

I scored 44 out of 50 when the Chepstow Conservative Club vs the Sergeants’ Mess at Beachley Camp invited us to a rematch after we beat them in a snooker match. The sergeants laid on a night to remember. Darts, carpet bowls, snooker, crib and shooting match with the SLR. My practice was 44/50 which the sergeant said was sniper class 35 being the pass mark. Afterwards we had a British Army curry; no one does a better curry than the British Army. A night to remember and cherish.

Wait a sec.... COD taught me you were supposed to throw out 360 No scopes!!

Do officers of Royal Marines also become snipers??

it looks like a simplified version of the us marines core scout sniper course which was around approx 10 plus years ago where even then there was a further advance sniper course and has since been replaced with a better course for usa snipers

Still using mil dot reticles. That's a big oof.

I’ve used a AI scope and a Swarovski scope and I can say that for 4 grand, the AI is the best

telling enemy all...... cool vid tho

Makes me wonder why the USMC got rid of their sniper program. What a blunder.

Not using melons anymore then?

Scout Sniper? Seriously? Thats an American term, a term which is no longer used in the USMC.

I did my police rifle marksman qualifier at Deer Hill and it were reet windy. At 500, according to the flags the wind was going in 4 different directions between the target and me. I passed using a .308 with no Schmidt und Bender scope and no "shooting computer" thingy.

My dad saw an ultra Decrypt derived intel that said the German HQ was abandoning / retreat at 2 pm the next day ! As the person whom, was the head sniper, he and his squad eliminated the HQ at 2 pm !!! Intel bonanza !?

Never again did they let a whole squad be controlled and act as one ☝️ from one head sniper No # 4 T. X 8

Snipers are / were the most hated people 😮 on their own side 😢 I whiteness’ed this personally ! In 1982’ in a local historic Pub ! Helping my father move to his other farm ! Winter and my gum boots were muddy ,from preparing a dilapidated shed for move , so a local guy ( bohemian!? ) famous bohemian pub ! Puhoi ! Comes up to my dad and calls him a murder! Because he had become sniper! ( after Monti Cassino ! ) guy proceeded to say that down in the town of Monte Cassino , they were gathered around heating some food 🍲 around a fire 🔥 and one of them taken out / hit by German sniper! And that snipers were the worst! At same point in time my father and his company up the hill with nothing in the way of food! some of were being killed by friendly fire ! As parts of smoke projectiles the Indian mountain troops requested feel on them ( my father’s company) 25lb smoke shell outer casings ( could hear 👂 them for a second before as going end over end and slowish! But the iron base plug less noise and faster killed and wounded many of his company! Friendly fire ! No joke That dad and others were able to get back through German lines and not POW s was a blessing After he came out of hospital was when he was made head sniper of unique nz sniper squad! And was pay back time !

Lets face it, they need as much training as possible. With current UK gun laws no recruits join with any experience...

Warmer air makes the bullet slower cooler air makes it faster she got it the wring way round

Have to keep up skills to counter modern threats. UK cannot tolorate Britons waving British flags or posting unapproved opinions online.

കർത്താവായ യേശുക്രിസ്തു സകല പ്രശ്നത്തിനും പരിഹാരം.

Still got my “Markmanship Certificate” tucked away…🫡👌🏼😉