Snipe hunters therefore needed to be stealthy in addition to being good trackers and marksmen. The name sniper comes from the verb to snipe, which originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India in reference to shooting snipes, a wader that was considered an extremely challenging game bird for hunters due to its alertness, camouflaging color and erratic flight behavior. In training, snipers are given charts that they’re drilled on to ensure they can make last-minute calculations when they are in the field. They also need to have the skill set to use data from their scope and monitors to adjust their aim to hit targets that are extremely far away. Snipers need to have complete control of their bodies and senses in order to be effective. In addition to long-range and high-grade marksmanship, military snipers are trained in a variety of special operation techniques: detection, stalking, target range estimation methods, camouflage, tracking, bushcraft, field craft, infiltration, special reconnaissance and observation, surveillance and target acquisition. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics, and often also serve as scouts/ observers feeding tactical information back to their units or command headquarters. A sniper is a military/ paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities.
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