I absolutely love how all these celebrities are belittling Chris Kyle and the movie American sniper! Highly doubt I ever watch a Seth rogen movie again! I also like how everyone knows soon much about snipers all of the sudden while Chris Kyle does have the most confirmed kills (160 out of 255 probables) here are some other great marksman and a (marks woman) you probably do not know about and deserve just as much credit for being beyond excellent marksman for their time when the science of long range shooting was still not figured out yet - chuck mawhinney *109 confirmed kills with an additional 216 as probables in just 16 months of active duty *holds the record for most confirmed kills by a marine corp sniper * served during the Vietnam war * Valentines Day 1969 chuck and his spotter single handedly took out 16 Vietnamese soldiers every shot was a head shot with an M14 rifle -rob furlong *holds the record for longest confirmed sniper kill @ 1.51 miles with a McMillan tac-50 50bmg with an A-max bullet -vasily zaytsev *242 confirmed kills from October 1942 to January 1943 out of close to nearly 500 probables *one of the most well known snipers was made famous by the movie enemy at the gates *ran a sniper school and is estimated that the snipers he trained killed nearly 3000 enemy soldiers *sniper dual with Erwin Konig, a well known sniper sent to assassinate zaytsev the dual took place over the course of 3 days in the ruins of Stalingrad after which zaytsev came out victorious with konigs rifle scope as a trophy -Lyudmila Pavlichenko *309 confirmed kills in 10 months 36 of which were enemy snipers * 1 of nearly 2000 female snipers of the soviet army * used a mosin nagant bolt action rifle with a 4 power scope -Francis Pegahmagabow *378 confirmed kills during WWI *300+ captures *a message runner on the front lines -Adelbert F. Waldron *109 confirmed kills (Chris Kyle broke his record) * took out a Vietnamese sniper with a single shot at over 900 yards away from the perch of a moving boat -Carlos hathcock II (white feather) *93 confirmed kills during Vietnam * killed an enemy sniper that was sent to assassinate him after a several day battle hathcock caught a glimpse of the reflection of the sun on the other snipers scope and squeezed off a round that went through the scope into the other snipers eye at roughly 900 yards being considered as the most precise shot in history! It was later discovered that at the angle and distance the only way hathcock could have seen the reflection is if the other sniper was aiming directly at him and ready to fire *carlos volunteered for a mission that required him to crawl 1500 yards into enemy territory it took him 4 days and 3 nights to crawl inch by inch with no sleep he was nearly stepped on by patrolling enemy guards he set up and took a shot on a Vietnamese general shooting him in the chest and killing him and had to crawl all the way back undetected as the enemy soldiers searched for him * fitted a browning 50 caliber machine gun with a scope and landed a confirmed kill at just over a mile with it * basically trained and set the standard for the United States military sniper schools (the grand daddy of them all) -Simo Häyhä *705 confirmed kills out of 800+ probables in only 100 days of service!!! * used a bolt action rifle without a scope only iron sights!!!!!!!! *from finland was just over 5 feet tall *nicknamed white death for wearing all white camouflage and putting snow in his mouth so his breath would not give away his position * worked alone for 3 straight months day and night with standing sub zero temperatures * used iron sights to make a smaller target for the enemy so he didnt have to raise his head to look through a scope
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:48:39 +0000
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