A mammoth task

With all the lockdown restrictions in place, I didn’t get to compete in any Precision Rifle competitions this year. I had entered another European-based sniper comp for serving and retired Military and Law Enforcement Personnel, but this too was cancelled.

So the net was cast a little wider, and me and a buddy got chatting about what competitions were out there that looked interesting. We were looking for a challenge and something far enough away on the calendar to allow the corona pandemic time to calm. The Mammoth Sniper Challenge, which is scheduled for January 2021, seemed to fit the bill.

Most of you have probably never heard of the Mammoth Sniper Challenge, and to be honest it is something that only really hit my radar about two years ago, but when it hit, I was immediately interested. The mix of physical demand allied to shooting has always appealed to me, and during military training