The Complete .50-Caliber Sniper Course: Hard Target Interdiction, by Dean Michaelis (2000) is one of the holy grails of sniper and long range shooting.

Before the slew of churned-out sniper/long range manuals of the last 20 years was this book – the one that came out of the first training programme for the Special Operations Target Interdiction Course (SOTIC).

While some of the material on the weapons platforms, ammunition choices, and optics might now be out-of-date, this book is one of the few – if not the only one – to cover such topics as 50 calibre rifles, hard target interdiction, range estimation without using laser rangefinders, and more.

The book oversized at 28 x 22 cm, and is a massive 563 pages.

Photos and illustrations throughout.

Not sure there’d be many copies of this book in NZ, and copies overseas have sold for up to $1500.

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