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the the

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the

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the impact

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we take precision shooting seriously still targets

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is one thing but when lives are

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on the line the stakes get raised

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that's never been more obvious than now

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with recent events in the news shiny

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new light on the role of the

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sniper the modern precision shooter has changed

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and become more dynamic training needs to

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reflect as much and that is happening

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at the grey

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the group security eli sniper course in

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nebraska i attended the basic eli sniper

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course headed by kp robinson and got

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to experience firsthand how dynamic precision shooting

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is merging with the role of the

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eli sniper

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my name's kp robinson and the lead

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sniper instructor for grey group security as

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my full time job as a police

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sniper team leader with a medium size

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department in the midwest we have almost

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four hundred officers roughly sixty people in

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our swat team counting snipers we've got

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eighteen snipers

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broken down into two sniper teams what

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drives me is to give people the

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ability to go out and do their

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job and come home safe and the

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way that i treat that as if

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if somebody were holding my wife or

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one of my kids hostage to give

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those people the ability to take that

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shot and may be comfortable with them

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take

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taking that shot as you might expect

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we started at the one hundred yard

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line to confirm zero and reinforced the

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shooting fundamentals

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from there we ran time drills shooting

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on command and this included shooting movers

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it is difficult at one hundred yards

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and while you might not expected we

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worked on positional shooting as well

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i think if you go back to

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when i started which is about fifteen

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years ago you went from a lot

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of inari competition type folks a lot

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of offhand stuff a lot of loop

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sling type stuff if you will the

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only thing that was out there at

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the time was you can't parry type

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competition that's that's where guys were learning

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those were the days when there was

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no communication within the sniper community everybody

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nobody wanted to give up their little

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piece of the nugget as far as

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the information goes i think we've come

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a long way we went from everybody's

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gotta have a ghillie suit to now

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we're doing urban hides vehicle hides were

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making ourselves

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more useful more valuable too

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not just our swat teams but our

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narcotics units are detectives by being able

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to go out and do surveillance and

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and being hidden in an urban divide

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environment or even a rural environment with

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those assets as a precision shooter and

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occasional competitor i wondered how the growth

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of tierra style dynamic precision shooting

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ing has affected the eli sniping community

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i'll be honest with you i think

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if we can get over ourselves i

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think the the prs community is great

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for us

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and it teaches us how to get

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in there build a position in what

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we've taught for years use your backpack

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use this use that that's no different

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than using a bag in competition and

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then now we're doing under time which

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is no different than doing it under

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duress so i think it's been great

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for us i recommend to my team

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all

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time if you can get to a

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local match or or anything like that

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i even ask him you know if

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you want to go let me know

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i'll help train you up yeah i

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think it's highly important i think some

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people still look at at at it

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as gaming

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but again as you and i have

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talked throughout the week what i don't

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think they understand is even your your

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top tier teams are bringing in

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competition shooters to teach them how to

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shoot they may not teach tactics but

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they're teaching them how to shoot we've

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never really taught precision shooting here's the

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gun here's the ammo go shoot me

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a group okay how do i do

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that how do i build that position

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how do i make myself more comfortable

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how do i

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i have good follow through on the

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gun how do i get a good

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trigger press

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we we have to be able to

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teach those things as well i think

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first of all we start with a

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good foundation i'll bring you in i'll

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do a shooting assessment day one and

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then we will go through and show

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you how to build that position how

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to shoulder the weapon i guess to

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borrow some terms from some soap some

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folks bridge that gap right instead

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of the old school

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load the bipod i hate that term

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and then we talk about the follow

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through the trigger pull a lot of

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sniper training doesn't go past one hundred

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yards and at one hundred yards you're

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not dialing turrets you're not using your

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radical you're not doing any of those

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things and you're setting them up for

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failure in my opinion

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also will do a night shoot which

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is rarely done i've i've never been

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anywhere that does a night shoot so

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we do that in the middle of

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the week one of the more interesting

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exercises was shooting from an interior hide

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and vehicle hide something i had never

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done it was an interesting and eye

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opening experience that further drove home the

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differences between us

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isn't shooting in the role of the

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sniper while reinforcing the overlap in fundamentals

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we will actually live fire from an

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urban hide from a vehicle hide we

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live fire from various positions you know

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i i teach them to use what's

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in their environment and we will use

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what's in our environment

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to shoot from ny i think we're

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head and shoulders above a lot of

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folks out there biggest challenge i think

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for for the modern law enforcement sniper

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is that we're still stuck with thirty

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year old equipment and thirty year old

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mentality of we've always done it that

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way or this is good enough that's

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unacceptable there's

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a lot more at stake now than

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there ever has been we have to

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have top notch equipment with technology where

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it's at and and i'm not talking

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electronics i'm talking barrel technology trigger technology

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bullet technology scope technology where things are

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there is absurd

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lately no excuse for not having good

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equipment it blows my mind to to

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see some of the things that come

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through here how old some of this

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equipment is and you're you're literally setting

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your folks up for failure i want

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to i want them to walk away

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not only with the ability to do

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their

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job should they go home the day

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after class a week after class and

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get called out i want them to

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walk away and know they can take

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care of that situation but i want

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them to walk away and confidence with

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themselves confidence in their equipment they know

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how to to use their turrets and

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they know what that trigger pull feel

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like they they know that that equipment

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is not going to fail them and

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they know that they are not going

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to fail themselves it's evident that the

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role of the commission sniper is changing

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as our world and it's threats evolve

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so too is a necessary skill to

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address them it's you and eli sniper

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looking for a solid relevant training gray

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group

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securities eli sniper program should be on

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your list