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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3181738
08/01/20 07:25 PM
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My high school principal was a sniper in Vietnam and apparently a lot of confirmed kills there and in other parts of the world post Vietnam. He was a cool guy. He didn't have to tell you he was a badass, you just knew it by his presence.

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3181820
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You aint never been snipe hunting? If so, you too are a sniper.


Is it Hunting Season Yet?
Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3181826
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I know one and he ain't right in the head as a result of his profession. My father is a Vietnam vet and spends a good bit of time involved in Veterans affairs. He tells me that it is S.O.P. to ask questions about where someone served and what they did because so many try to take advantage of veterans programs, etc. Gun shops and sporting goods stores are full of "Heroes".

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3181864
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I’ve always laughed at the confirmed kill rate and used to give them crap that women are better snipers than they are. Its how you defend your territory and folk should NEVER forget this. 309 confirmed kills vvvvvvvvv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

There are a few career fields in the Military I give credit to not because of their particular skillset but because that skillset requires them to be exposed to the worlds critters, vermin, insects, terrain, and weather, from days to weeks on end. Sniper is one of those jobs.

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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3181904
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A while back our local FBI agent was when he was in the Marines. He got out and joined the FBI. Great guy. Completely unlike the political hacks in the agency. He was also an instructor for the FBI swat team. His name is Fred. Retired from the FBI and took a job at FLETC, the federal law enforcement training center in New Brunswick GA.
I also had a joke of a chief that claimed to be a Army Special Forces Ranger, whatever that is, and said he was an assassin in Nicaragua. Fred and I were going hunting one day and laughing about this when Fred asked if I knew the best indicator Chiefie was lying and replied “other than the fact his mouth was moving?”. Fred looked dead serious and simply said “Because when you’ve done those things you don’t talk about it.” I knew then that Fred had done things in the Marines that I knew not to ask him about.


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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3181972
08/02/20 07:58 AM
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just like Green Berets, you'd think from the number of those claiming to have been Green Berets in Nam that they made up the majority of folks fighting over there.


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Re: Snipers [Re: JohnnyLoco] #3182055
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Originally Posted by JohnnyLoco
I’ve always laughed at the confirmed kill rate and used to give them crap that women are better snipers than they are. Its how you defend your territory and folk should NEVER forget this. 309 confirmed kills vvvvvvvvv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

There are a few career fields in the Military I give credit to not because of their particular skillset but because that skillset requires them to be exposed to the worlds critters, vermin, insects, terrain, and weather, from days to weeks on end. Sniper is one of those jobs.



If I remember right I saw something honoring her at WW2 museum in Kiev.

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182196
08/02/20 12:47 PM
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Your mom’s house
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I know one. He is a good friend. He was a marine sniper and is not a sheriff’s deputy and that departments shooter. He has never once discussed his military time or deployments around me.

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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182281
08/02/20 02:24 PM
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I was privileged to meet and talk with Carlos Hathcock at his home back in '83, and some years later, as an LEO, attended a 3 week FBI sponsored Scout/Sniper school at Camp Shelby with a group of guys from the 11th Special Forces.


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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182456
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I know a few, and like others have stated, they don’t talk about it.

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182474
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I had the honor of serving with two school trained Marine Corps snipers while serving in Fallujah, Iraq. Both were very humble and professional.

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182627
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I was in the marines and in Nam and I meet 2 snipers and both of them were bat-shucks-crazy

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182662
08/03/20 08:12 AM
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I have only met one that I believe in and he leave here in Alabama I have shot with him at matches a good many times. He has been written about in a very popular sniper book most of you have read.

Re: Snipers [Re: deerman24] #3182666
08/03/20 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by deerman24
I meet 2 snipers and both of them were bat-shucks-crazy

That's pretty much a requirement for snipers.


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Re: Snipers [Re: jwalker77] #3182668
08/03/20 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by jwalker77
Originally Posted by FurFlyin
Originally Posted by foghorn
Met one from the corp that was legit even wrote some books on shooting! Cant remember his name though. Usually meet the seal/spec ops guys! LOL



The "Marine Sniper" that I met yesterday told me that with subsonic ammo, my 22 bullets should "be nearly done dropping" at 200 yards so only go up one more click for shooting at 300. I bet he was a sniper teacher at sniper school.

Ive got some subsonic 22lr that are so weak they wont cycle through a semi auto. Im not saying they wouldnt kill somebody if you hit them just right, but I could also see them bouncing off a good field jacket. Probably wouldnt pierce a skull at 300yds


Of topic but as an interesting FYI. I have talked extensively to a guy who uses noting but subsonic 22lr and even SS shorts to shoot wild hogs in the head at a feeder. He says the lower velocity penetrates the skull much better because the hyper stuff just shatters on impact or glances off.

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182681
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That would make some sense RH. African professional hunters have long known that long heavy bullets at moderate velocities penetrate deeper and stay on track through the target better. 2200 - 2400 FPS seems to be the sweet spot.


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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182685
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Most calling themselves snipers were actually designated marksman or SDM. Lots of those in the sandbox. Thats the guy with the M14 of Mk 12


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Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182702
08/03/20 08:56 AM
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I don't know any, but I myself was a delta force, seal team 7, marine marsoc, and green beret sniper and I served with Chris Kyle and John Rambo.

Get some.

Cept I never talk about it.


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Re: Snipers [Re: AlabamaSwamper] #3182715
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Originally Posted by AlabamaSwamper
Good friend of mine was. Three deployments

He’s out now and resides in Alaska.



The only one I've met lives in Alaska too.

Re: Snipers [Re: FurFlyin] #3182753
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I know several.


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