The normal Ballistics Training Day covers everything but we can focus in on areas of particular interest and relevancy to you - we have all day and we're here to help.  However, if you wish to have extra focused training in one particular area, which is very popular for repeat customers seeking to build on the initial improvements made on Day 1, then please look at these other packages on offer for you:

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Marksmanship Training:

This focuses on crucial techniques for accuracy and consistency. Whilst we don't seek to bully you out of your tried and tested methods or insist on the latest craze from the States, we can pick up on unseen flaws in your technique and correct them so your shooting improves. At long range these little things add up.

 

We will look at NPA (Natural Point of Aim), Recoil Control and Follow-Through. Bag Riding and Trigger Control. Plus body setup and positioning. The crucial Bipod Loading vs Free Recoil. We will discuss the merits of the various front rests and bipods available to you, and also the rear options: bags (leather ears or synthetic?), and the pros and cons of monopods....There are also Allacritas Innovations Fortis micro-adjust rear rests to try out too. 

 

You will gain a new understanding of what is achievable from various quality rests when your "fundamentals" are in order.

Your shooting is guaranteed to improve- both your pure accuracy but just as importantly your consistency.

An experienced shooter will fine-tune the technique.

A less experienced shooter will gain an understanding of why the "fundamentals" are so important and learn them for the future. 

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Wind Reading, Plotting and Analysis/Reverse Engineering:

Especially if you've completed the Ballistics day, you're now focused on your wind calls as the elevation side of things is no longer a problem, your app/Garmin/kestrel having been properly set up and trued (and trued NON-destructively according to the latest ballistics developments, not bodged to suit a few ranges)   

This day concentrates on the process of analysing the wind through the day and using the real shot data ("The bullet tells the Truth" - Todd Hodnett) to inform the ballistic app and reverse engineer/true our ongoing wind speed and angle calls.

Plus ascertaining which level of wind to dial out - the lull? the steady? the gust? Should we use averages?

Waiting for the corrected shot or holding off using the ret. How much is needed for x or y lull or gust?

Real-time wind monitoring and its application in long range precision.

Reading topographical updraughts and downdraughts and factoring them out.  

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This will switch on the next level of your marksmanship - that magic mix between the science of applying ballistics and the "feel" of advanced wind reading.

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Garmin 901/GPSMAP 67/ Garmin Watches etc Applied Ballistics setup and familiarisation course 

These excellent tools have the full Applied Ballistics loadout, notably the essential Custom Drag Curves that allow first shot hits right into the transonic and subsonic ranges. This can be paired with remote ammunition temperature monitoring and also the Vortex/Leica/ Sig Kilo/ Vectronix rangefinders. This is the new state of the art. Come and have it explained in detail and then perhaps try it out on the 1 mile target, or the 2000y... 

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Kestrel / WeatherFlow/ ultrasonic windmeter setup course:

This day concentrates on the configuration of the excellent Kestrel Elite standalone tool, or the cheaper but fussier alternative, the WeatherFlow WEATHERmeter (via bluetooth in to apps)

Real-time wind monitoring with these devices - when it is useful and when it is flawed, and how to configure this correctly, including compass calibration. DoF adjustments in app and in device. Multiple target layouts can be pre-stored in the Kestrel (inc varying angles) for preparation for a PRS competition.

All other config required for first shots and then the truing procedures for ongoing accuracy improvement with every shot fired.  

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 THE MILE AND FAR BEYOND

Permanently set up at SharpShootingUK are 1760y/1600m/1mile and 2053y/1875m/1.17miles

targets which can be shot from day2 onwards. In 2023 there are also new targets from 2100y out to over a mile and a half. In 2024 I added 2200, 2300, 2339, 2565, 2800, 3006, 3180y targets.

I trained dozens of people to shoot half MOA strings at a mile, some with their Creedmoors! Plus those pushing in to ELR were coached out to and including 3000y, where several committed marksmen achieved long string half MOA strings.  If you don't have an appropriate rifle, you can use a selections of demo rifles, just paying for ammo.  

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Become a TOP GUN ! 

Yearly the Staniforth Memorial plaque is awarded to  the marksman or woman who holds the best vertical string of the season at the longest range. A few years ago, this was 5 consecutive hits on the 7inch 1mile target, with under 0.2mil vertical dispersion. This gentleman had come to me as a complete long range novice two years before. Things move rapidly on though and  last year it was awarded to a chap, a novice a year or two prior, who now easily and always shoots half MOA at the mile, often including first shot cold bore impacts and went on to deliver a half MOA string on all targets out to and including 3000y. This is where you can get to by training here. With a committed training plan, with my help all day in every session in every possible area, be it ballistics, marksmanship, reloading, kit advice,  you too can achieve these amazing goals. 

​Of course, not every shooter wants to shoot over a mile! You may be an ethical hunter wanting to maximise your skills in, say 20mph winds at 500y - something achievable with such ease these days that you'll laugh - I get most folks there within two days.  You may be a target shooter looking to cross train to improve your wind analysis without the aid of flags, you may be Military, looking for the latest training in a sport where the technology evolves very very fast. Whatever you skill level, the courses are tailored exactly to you and you will develop very rapidly.

  

All packages are the same price and require a second day to complete after the initial Ballistics Training Day. Things can be mixed up too - a 2 day package will always include the initial Ballistics course and on Day2 any of the above subjects can be included, along with any other topics of benefit to you: Here To Help!

Most shooters do two initial days to learn the ballistics, the truing and to practice with their newly-sorted and trustworthy solver. Then they jump in to repeat session throughout the season, where they are paired with very small groups of people with the same experience and goals. This is cheaper, there's lots of cross-pollination, great fun and often great friends are made too. 

Each session you will become more accomplished in whichever areas you wish. It's also a fun break from work, away in a lovely part of the world, with like-minded people.  ​

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More and more folks will spend some time playing with long range rimfire or air. This is really developing these days and we have a lot of fun on these days.  The principles are much the same, with a slightly revised workflow/priority list and remarkable results can be achieved these days with the smaller, quieter and cheaper weapons. There is a dedicated rimfire range for this purpose.    

  

Book in for the initial Ballistics course, then after that come back and train toward whichever goals you wish to achieve  

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