Ultimate Sniper III: The Video Is Now Available

Paladin burst onto the sniping scene in 1993 with the publication of John Plaster’s The Ultimate Sniper book, which was completely revised and updated in 2006, but it has been 15 years since we had released a new sniping video. Given the advancements in sniping technology and tactics, and the more prominent role of sniping on today’s battlefields, it was clearly time.

To document the state of modern sniping, John Plaster gathered three of the world’s most accomplished military snipers—Rob Furlong, Jim Gilliland, and Steve Reichert— and brought them to Iron River, Wisconsin, for the filming of Ultimate Sniper III: The Video.

Rob Furlong, a former Canadian soldier, held the world record for the longest .50-caliber sniper kill. While on Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan in 2002, he was credited with dispatching a Taliban fighter at 2,700 yards – or 1 1/2 miles. Sergeant First Class Jim Gilliland, U.S. Army, is credited with the longest conventional sniper rifle (7.62mm) kill in the Iraq conflict, having eliminated an insurgent sniper at a confirmed distance of 1,367 yards. Jim and his “Shadow Sniper Team” were credited with more than 200 kills in Iraq. Steve Reichert, a former U.S. Marine sniper, is cred)ted with the longest confirmed kill during Operation Iraqi Freedom, using a .50-caliber sniper rifle. Decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor, he also came to the aid of another Marine patrol by firing his heavy rifle directly through a brick wall to kill several lurking gunmen.

With the premier historian of sniping and these three decorated sharpshooters, we had very high expectations. But the finished product is even better than we dared hope. Ultimate Sniper III: The Video takes sniper training to a whole new level, with state-of-the-art equipment and proven experts. As an added bonus, these amazing snipers tell you in their own words about their record shots, the single most-important trait of a sniper, and what it was really like on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.