06-08 June
03 GRANDFIELD, OK - SFC Pete Carpentier Jr. and
SPC Alan K. Donaldson shot the Sniper
Country Sniper Quest match that was held at the Badlands
Tactical Training Faculty in Grandfield Oklahoma. There were a
total of 24 teams at the match. The teams were made up of former
Military snipers, Civilian shooters, SWAT Snipers and a team from
the Israel Defense Force. SFC Carpentier and SPC Donaldson finished
4th team in the match. In the individual standing, SFC Carpentier
finished 11th and SPC Donaldson finished 15th out of 48 shooters.
The match
tested the shooters Marksmanship skills and Field craft skills.
On the marksmanship part, the teams shot from 100 yards all the
way out to 1000 yards. They did cold bore shots, speed drills,
shot movers, shot from different positions, shot targets at unknown
distances, shot at night and also did some pistol shooting. As
for the Field Craft, they did a KIM’S game, Stalked, Range
Estimate and Target Detection.