Skill Builder: PSR Alternate Shooting Positions I (8 Hours)

Overview

This one-day class is a chance for the precision scoped rifle shooter to practice alternate shooting positions out to 300 yards. In this skill builder, students will learn how to shoot using various angles, positions, and terrain to find stability and support. Under the guidance of highly skilled long-range shooting instructors, students will better prepare themselves for the next level of training by integrating stability enhancing equipment and techniques required for shooting precision rifle systems from alternative, and often awkward, shooting positions. Whether you’re a competitive shooter, an avid hunter out in the field, or just looking to have fun, this skill builder is for you!

Experience Requirements

Students must have successfully completed Precision Scoped Rifle 101. Students must be able to demonstrate safe gun handling, weapon system familiarity, and foundational marksmanship.

Students failing to meet and maintain our safety requirements and/or who cannot meet and immediately demonstrate the minimum rifle skills required for the specific class may be removed from training. Please ensure you have read the class description and fully understand our prerequisites before registering.

Course Outline

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Practice building various alternative shooting positions such as kneeling, seated open, and seated closed with a scoped rifle.
• Assess if established alternate shooting position is stable, adaptable, and repeatable and adjust if necessary.
• Apply marksmanship fundamentals to successfully (with accuracy and precision) hit designated target(s) out to 300 yards.
• Develop understanding and ability to properly adjust scope for impact shift on demand.
• Analyze target and make necessary scope adjustments to correct shot impacts.
• Practice adjustments based on current atmospheric influences on external ballistics.
• Refine the shooter’s fundamentals of marksmanship in various alternate positions.
• Maintain correct shot “process” for each shot taken. 
• Record relative and important data in issued data book.

Equipment List

• Precision scoped rifle with sling
• Field notebook and pencils
• Hydration system
• Clothing suitable for training in any weather
• Wraparound eyewear, polycarbonate lenses or non-shattering prescription glasses
• Earmuffs and earplugs

Optional Equipment:

• Spotting scope 
• Rangefinder
• Backpacks, rear bags, bipods, shooting sticks
• Rifle cleaning equipment
• Sunscreen and bug spray  
• Hat with a brim  

Tuition includes free loan of SIG SAUER firearms, holsters, safety glasses and hearing protection at the Epping, NH, New Smyrna Beach, FL, and Centennial, CO locations. 

Ammo

• Estimated round count: 200 rounds match rifle
• Lead core ammunition to be used on steel only
• No green/brown tip, armor piercing, or surrogate rounds to be used on steel at any time
• Ammunition is available for purchase from the Epping, New Smyrna Beach, and Centennial facilities only