CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Detective Mike Ulrey and Agent Rodney Lockerman from the Clarksville Police Department’s Tactical Unit attended Sniper Week in St Petersburg – Clearwater, Florida on April 6-9, 2016.
Sniper Week is a unique training event for police and military snipers. It combines two days of comprehensive classroom lectures and presentations with two days of intense, job-related range training and competition.
Sniper Week is recognized as the largest and longest running police sniper training event of its kind involving teams from all over the world and culminates with the Sniper Craft Challenge. There is nothing else like it anywhere.
The Sniper Craft Challenge is not a contest or a world championship. Nor is this to be confused with your basic bullseye bench rest course. This is a competitive sniper training event without equal.
Any sniper seeking to gauge his readiness to operate in the real world of tactical deployments should stop here first. The emphasis is on training. The Snipercraft Challenge is a unique course, designed by and for police snipers.
Using actual sniper incidents as the model, each phase incorporates documented realism. The result is a practical series of intense live-fire exercises, set up to test your fitness, equipment, teamwork, problem-solving, communication skills, ability to perform under a variety of stressors – and your marksmanship. Participation is open only to active, certified police SWAT team and military personnel.