[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Top Ten Snipers in History
10.Thomas Plunkett
9.Sgt, Grace
8.Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney
7.Rob Furlong
6.Vasily Zaytsev
5.Lyudmilla Pavlichenko
4.Corpral Francis Pegamagabow
3.Adelbert F. Waldron
2.Carlos Norman Hathcock II
1.Simo Häyhä

[balch3]

Simo was a bad, bad man.

[bobby.223]

no. 2 is no. 1. (case closed as archie bunker would say).

[Lancer_N3502A]

Fantastic read.

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[DaveTesla]

#1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock

[P8riot]

I have a rifle named for #2

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Why isn’t Conneticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on that list? : )

One other note, Chuck Mawhinney actually has more kills than Hathcock, but like Waldron never wrote a book, was not a career military man and stayed pretty much to himself. I think he has the most kills of any Marine.

Hathcock’s shots were simply amazing. I think that his greatest contribution though is probably the Marine sniper school at Quantico and the creation of Sta platoons.

[backwoods-engineer]

Vasily Zaytsev

Mosin Nagant ping! from a guy who can pave his driveway in hot 7.62x54 brass!

[dfwgator]

No love for Lee Harvey?

HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was? Private Snowball?

SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!

HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?

SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!

HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot? Private Joker?

JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!

HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!

[archy]

The Top Ten Snipers in History

10.Thomas Plunkett
9.Sgt, Grace
8.Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney
7.Rob Furlong
6.Vasily Zaytsev
5.Lyudmilla Pavlichenko
4.Corpral Francis Pegamagabow
3.Adelbert F. Waldron
2.Carlos Norman Hathcock II
1.Simo Häyhä

There's some pretty room for variance here based on definition- not all of some shooter;s hits may be logbooked, and there's a legitimate line of thought that fatally taking out an enemy with a single round is not as efficient asa really serious wound- which removes him from active service, as well as those who evacuate him for medical treatment, uses up medical supplies and ties up the services of top-quality medical persionnel; surgeons and surgical staff.

Too, kills are not the only criteria, or a sniper with a radio may never fire a shot but may destroy a battalion or more by calling in an airstrike or directed artiller fire. And at least one on that list used a machinepistol in semiauto-fire mode almost as much as he did his long rifle. It was simply the better choice of weapobn for the conditions and close ranges involved, particularly at night.

If we're talking about truly great, numbers of kills is certainly not the only criteria. Which should remind us of this guy....

YORK, ALVIN C.

Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company G, 328th Infantry, 82d Division.

Place and date: Near Chatel-Chehery, France, 8 October 1918.

Entered service at: Pall Mall, Tenn.

Born: 13 December 1887, Fentress County, Tenn.

G.O. No.: 59, W.D., 1919.

Citation:

After his platoon had suffered heavy casualties and 3 other noncommissioned officers had become casualties, Cpl. York assumed command. Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machinegun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machinegun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns.

[PIF]

#1: Paul Tibbets.

Single plane, single bomb, ignored by the japanese as — what damage could one bomber possibuly do?

Surprise!