Please join me in appreciating today’s Photo Of The Day. I’m sure you’ll appreciate the photo more than these German snipers appreciated the situation, with a broken back and wet, ice-cold feet.
Here’s the description, auto-translated from German and the Bundeswehr Facebook:
Will, speed, precision and creativity – these are the ingredients that matter on the second day of the sniper competition in Munster. A tough exercise awaits the ten teams: the shooters have to hit their targets from five different positions in just nine minutes. There is often little space in the marked areas and an often creative stop must be found quickly under enormous time pressure.
In wintry temperatures, the participants in the water pond where station 3 is located have to grit their teeth and work as a team to fire a targeted shot. While the Polish comrades use the spotter’s weapon as a support surface…
The German G22A2 is an enhanced version that features an AX series chassis stock, a new monopod and bipod, a double chamber muzzle brake, and a Steiner-Optik GmbH M5Xi 5-25×56 MTC LT LPF – TreMoR3s telescopic sight. The accessory pack, in addition to spare and maintenance parts, includes a Kestrel 5700 Elite Weather Meter with an integrated ballistic calculator. In 2019, Accuracy International received a contract to refurbish and upgrade all G22 and G22A1 rifles to the G22A2 standard.
