This is Part 3 and the last series of pictures from Europe’s Best Sniper Team Competition 2018.

You can find Part 1 and Part 2 here, as well as a photo of two Dutch snipers involved in a pretty strange shooting position.

Part 3 – The winners

The winning sniper team came from the Swedish Air Force (Flygbasjägare), and you can see the spotter’s war face to the right. If you scroll down you can see the rest of the top performers.

I find it interesting that while we spend three posts looking at the most advanced sniper rifles, calibers and rifle scopes, it’s the team that has one of the lowest specifications that wins.

It’s the Indian, not the bow or the arrow – as the saying goes?

Here is a video of the winning team from Sweden. They managed to get a nice camouflage pattern on that AI AW.

Here’s an example what the Ak4 can look like with the Spuhr upgrades.

It’s hard to dig out firm details, but the Aimpoint CS is used for the Ak4 B and C versions.

However, some Ak4 B:s is using the ”Kikarsikte 09/Hensoldt” (as pictured directly above). Suddenly the Swedish Army has so many variants of an older service rifle. The original stock is still used, as well as the HK collapsible stock, and the Spuhr upgraded one.

Ammunition – very little is known, but we have some details.

Here you can see one of the two Swedish sniper teams.To the left you see one of the AK4C:s described above and the sniper is shooting his PSG 90, AI AX, in 7,62 NATO. Looks like a Hensholdt spotting scope.

Considering the results I and other were thinking that they were using the UKAL ammunition, basically a .308 sub-caliber ammunition with a very high velocity. I don’t think the owners of the steel targets would love them, so to speak.

But according to good sources, the Swedish Army is using the GGG ammunition in 147 gr. in this competition  It’s the same ammunition that TFB tested very recently, among a lot of other GGG in .308 Win. Check that test with GGG out here. In out test the GGG 147 didn’t perform as well as some other GGG types, but then again we didn’t use a PSG90 either.

Note the M90 camouflage to identify the Swedish snipers.

And now over to some of the other Sniper Teams.

That’s a lot of nice equipment lined up.

Below: Heckler & Koch in the use of Bulgarians.

Below: Looks like a Barrett MRAD in .338 LM. Note the cover over the suppressor and the mirage band.

Below: Dutch sniper with a Accuracy International AXMC, which can be configured in .338 Lap Mag, .300 Win Mag or .308 Win.

 

So after 36 sniper teams from 19 nations spent five days shooting from helicopters and boats, under stress, using medical skills and shooting at night the results were:

First: Sweden (Team 1 Flygbasjägare = Air Force Rangers)

Second: Slovenia 

Third: Germany 

Fourth: Sweden (Team 2 Airborne Rangers)

Fifth: Canada

To the best of my knowledge there were no US snipers in the competition, as they were hosting what looks like a great event.