Customer Reviews

Sniper/Counter Sniper

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I agree with the sniper instructor. This book is excellent. It has many pictures and diagrams to show and explain the topics discussed in this book. Some topics include weapons, concealment, training, and scopes. The book gets down to the point with no BS and is easy to understand. Mark V. Lonsdale in my opinion is a great aurthor and his other books are just as good as this one. I would highly recommend this book to snipers and anyone interested in the art of sniper/counter sniper.

There are quite a few other books on sniping that you need to buy before this one. I do not know about the background of the other reviewers but to call this a good book on sniping is BS. A very, very light introduction, maybe, but the book does not cover ANYTHING in detail. It is at best useful for a wanna-be sniper and maybe not even so: If you include so little details, but still manage to explain where to shoot a man in the head it is at best missguiding.
I am sure that mr. Lonesdale knows his stuff, but this book is lightweight.

We continue to use Sniper Counter Sniper as a textbook. It is still the most concise training manual on the subject of urban and police long rifle operations. Packed full of great photos and diagrams. Highly recommended

Personally I am more interested in military sniping, but still Sniper/Counter Sniper gave a lot of good tips on the subject of long range shooting and especially in how to train yourself in the art of becoming a competent sniper.

The reason I bought this book was the title: Counter Sniper. As a former rifleman, counter sniper is the most difficult task. This book has zero info about counter sniper. However, the info about sniper operation in this book is very basic; at least nothing new for me. That just total waste my time. Some other sniper experience history books would be better reading material if you are into this subject.

These comments are based on the first edition.

This is an entry-level guide for law enforcement use of snipers. It very briefly mentions some sniper rifles and scopes in common use or available at the time the book was first published (1987), and gives basic advise on how to train and deploy as a SWAT sniper. The author followed this with Sniper II in 1992.

SNIPER COUNTER-SNIPER is better than ever. This book has been fully revised and up-dated for 2005 with new text, chapters, images and equipment.