JB's Guide to ultimate Sniping

Sniping is the most skillful way to play CoD 5, and most of the time give's the sexiest kill's as well. There are also many different ways to sniping. Ill cover the ones I know here. First thing's first, what sniper should I use?

What Sniper Rifle is most useful to me?

Springfield: The springfield is a very good way for a beginner sniper to start off, it's got a mediocre everything really and so it doesn't really specialize in anything. This is good for beginners because then they can find out what's annoying them (Rate of fire/whatever) and pick the relevant sniper rifle to use from there on in.

Arisaka: I personally don't like the Arisaka, it's for the people who like ugly looking sniper's and for sniper's who want to make sure they get a little bit more accuracy into their shot. So if you want to make sure you get that kill, then use this. I suppose it's helpful for no-scoping, but it's rate of fire just doesn't cut it.

Mosin-Nagent: People say that sniper rifle's have the same damage, and in fairness it probably does. Yet for some reason I seem to get more kill's with it. The Mosin-Nagent also brings in one more aspect into sniping. Don't you just hate it when you've hurt that guy but now he's ducked behind the shed wall? Well the Mosin-Nagent solves all them problems by shooting directly through it. Wall shooting, because you can.

Kar98k: This is Jimmies favourite, I love this gun, it just rocks. Its got a faster reload time so I can get right back to shooting straight away and it's jsut plain awesome to use.

PTRS: Petey, the sniper rifle that just didn't make it. You can use this as a sniper rifle, it's fast rate of fire enable you to take down a crowd of enemies fast and efficiently especially because if it's huge range. But the real use of this sniper rifle in no-scoping, the art of running around and shooting without looking down the scope.

The Secret Sniper Ok, the secret sniper rifle has a semi-automatic rate of fire, which is very handy and it wobbles less if your doing the xbox version, but it just doesn't have the damage to make it hugely useful if your playing TDM. The Secret Sniper rifle, is of course, the M1 Garand with scope.

Great, now what perks, grenades and side arms do I use?

Perk 1: Bomb squad if you would like to reduce the amount of deaths you get from running into random betties, Bouncing Betties if you want to increase your kill's and defend your sought after sniper position. Satchel Charges for increasingly funny kills and of course bandolier if your so good you happen to run out of bullets!!!

Perk 2: Stopping power if you want to absolutely ensure you get that kill, Camouflauge if your doing Hard Core, Overkill if your nervous about close range encounter's. Sleight of hand if you want to get right back into the action and Double Tap if you want to make sure he doesn't have the time to get to cover.

Perk 3: Deep Impact if you want to practice the art of wall shooting, Extreme Conditioning if you want to skidadle to your next sniper position quickly. Really this perk slot can be anything, it doesn't hugely matter

Side Arm: Magnum for power, Nambu for stealth (and just plain uglyness) and the rest are pretty much all the same.

Grenades and secondary grenades don't really matter, use any.

AM I READY YET?
Sure, to die. But you need to know the basics of sniping
-Make sure you line up your shot, if you miss your going your position away
-After 2-3 kill's, move and aim at your previous hiding place, people who got killed by you will go to your hiding place to kill you, but you wont be there and you'll kill them again. Rinse and Repeat.
-Swap your sidearm for any other gun for close quarter fighting
-For knifing, strafe and then if they charge at you, strafe again and swipe at them as they run past.
-Always be in cover
-Make sure you protect your position

Im sorry, I prefer to run and gun
Woah woah woah woah, yo, stop man. Who said there is only one type of sniping?

Traditional Sniping: Sitting around in concealed positions, with a BA with a scope, carefully aiming your shot and taking them when possible. A 1/5 difficulty rating on the Jimmy Scale

Advanced Sniping: Taking every shot possible, and hitting most of them. Moving head-shots are coming in like crap to a landfill, Quick scope too (Raise your scope and the moment it reaches your eye, shoot). A 2/5 on the difficulty rating on the Jimmy Scale

Run 'n' Gunnin: You can't believe your reading this, a run and gun sniper? You may think Im lying, but there is a dying breed of these sniper's, rare, but these people are amazing at what they do. A 3/5 on the difficulty rating on the Jimmy Scale

No-Scope Take off the scope, put on steady aim, run like mad and take long distance shots with the scope. This is a rare type of sniper. A 4/5 on the Difficulty rating on the Jimmy Scale

Master Sniper Take off your scope, never look down the sights, put sensitivity to 7 or 8 and put your button controls to tactical. This is insane and I've only ever seen one person do this, it led to some pretty awesome kill cams. I tried doing it and failed miserably. A 5/5 on the Difficulty rating on the jimmy Scale

Videos of ALL of these coming up soon

Hey bob when I have time, I will add some of my sniping tips onto your guide if you don't mind

Sure, feel free

Jim that Guide was kickass, I am a Kar man myself, though ive been debating about using the mosin, people say its a one hit kill with it, where with the kar i dont always get the kill, what is your thought on this....kar or mosin? and yeah i try the peter here and there....but i end up hating it all over again for its Naughty Word: Bodily excretion accuracy

[RoT]WEAPON wrote:

Jim that Guide was kickass, I am a Kar man myself, though ive been debating about using the mosin, people say its a one hit kill with it, where with the kar i dont always get the kill, what is your thought on this....kar or mosin? and yeah i try the peter here and there....but i end up hating it all over again for its Naughty Word: Bodily excretion accuracy

The censor is new and improved =D

I honestly don't know, Kar if you want accuracy and fairly decent power, but Mosin if you want true power. One of my only problems with the Mosin Nagent is the fact that It's a ****ing BEAST, it covers the right half of my screen on the xbox but on the wii it's alright. Whatever suits you best I'd say. Try 3 games with the mosin and 3 games with the kar and see which one you do best/ you enjoy most whatever.

I like the mosin nagent more than the kar98, like bob says it's a garunteed kill on that first shot, even in TDM so weapon you will like it. Also statistically the mosin nagent reloads faster than the kar98 so even if you miss that first shot, you can get that second shot in a few seconds before you could with a kar98. Just sayin.

Update

nice update

but 2 get the 1 shot kill w/ the mosin do u need stopping power?

@ Tafi, NOOOO! The mosin is one shot kill automatically that's the beauty of it.

The mosin is sexy, end of. No if's but's or maybe but it's. Or any other word in the dictionary apart from the following:
It
Is
Smexy
Xylophone

RaMiboi Guide to sniping:

SCOPED M1 Take the head shot. ONE SHOT - ONE KILL

Its actually quite simple

RaM RuLeZ

Personally I never like the position of the Kar or Mosin when you hold em, they are very close to the center of the screen which annoys me cause every other gun has been position slightly to the right. I personally use the Arisaka a lot. I am not a stay and snipe sniper I run around quite a lot, and only stop to snipe one guy. And on PS3 I have the sensitivity on 10 . and I never usually use the scope cause of no lag on ps3.

[CQC]Yakiboi wrote:

@ Tafi, NOOOO! The mosin is one shot kill automatically that's the beauty of it.

in tdm?

Yup even in TDM