Tips???

hey im a new spotter and i was just wondering if you guys had any good tips for me to start out with

well, i have no experience, but a good exercise would be for your brother (amg sniper i believe) to place markers in a field at different distances away from you, and you, with a scope or not, try to tell him how far he placed them. this will obv allow you to be able to judge distances more accurately, and help your brother out more quickly while calculating a shot.

a tip on how to do this, is take something you know, and apply it. ex, a basketball is 10 ft high, a marker may be 3 bball nets away.

i could be way off, but i know that real sniper spotters go through this training exercise

Read the topics in this section of the forum?

Thanks thats a really good idea. My brother and I tried something like that, where he would call out a target and i would have to guess how far away it is. Surprisingly, we got very close to the same thing almost every time.

I did, and btw you wrote an excellent article on spotting. TASS.com has a great one as well. I was just looking for some tips from other people as well.

agm spotter like i told your bro practice patience cause theres notin mor anoying then a impatient spotter, they always give away your position and distract the sniper

use a semi auto mediam range rifle.. they do the job ur meant to do.. basicallty even out the sniper disadvantages in case of encounter..

yes i agree like a m14 or 16 so you can have range and still protect yer sniper with it

thanks guys, i really appreciate the tips and i hope to use them in my training . What about an AK47 that is semi-automatic and automatic, would that be good too?

as long as it has range but you also have to list they maker and the real name because there are so many ak47's out there.

You also might want to keep in mind that in case spotting is not completely for you , rifleman may be in your future .

youll want 2 use that auto wen u get bored try something with lnger range

BThoman wrote:

a basketball is 10 ft high

I've never seen a 10ft tall basketball before....

lol

Well in terms of weaponry, any full length battle rifle will do since what a spotter is essentially doing is acting as a support gunner/DM for his sniper. If it has slightly better range than your average AEG then that's perfectly adequate, and a high rate of fire is essential for when you are comprimised.

When I'm spotting, I just use my M14. I have 5 low caps loaded with .25 and 5 mid caps loaded with .2 for putting down a lot of fire (mine's upgraded with a prometheus barrel and some internal upgrades for a higher ROF that I don't really know since I don't mod my own AEGs since I have little interest in them)

Jim