USMC Sniper stops insurgents from 950 yards

http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/m...58?opendocument ^

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Texas Marine PING!!
Ms.B

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good story.

However.......

"INSURGENTS" my ass!

They are "TERRORISTS" and "THE ENEMY".

I hate it when Political Correctness even infests itself on the webpage of the United States Marines.

[alpha-8-25-02]

SNIPERS MOTTO!
"YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU WILL ONLY DIE TIRED"
SEMPER FIDELIS!
GODSPEED!
SGT. SANDOVAL,THE LORD AND YOUR GRANDFATHER ,THE WHITE FEATHER ARE WATCHING OVER YOU!

[mylife]

Hooahh! You Go Marine!

[elhombrelibre]

That bullet didn't start at 3,000 feet per second. It probably started at 2600 - 2700.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The driver probably didn't see anyone close and couldn't understand what was happening to his buddies. I've picked off grackles on a cable, one after another, shooting .22 minicaps, and the 2nd, 3rd, etc birds don't seem to be alarmed.

[ArrogantBustard]

[if you have to ask, ask a Marine scout sniper!]

If you have to ask, Read the Book!!!

[MHGinTN]

(+) ../ Good work, Marine.

[NYTexan]

I was wondering about the spotter myself.

Maybe he was ignored. (1/2 of the team!)

[TexasCowboy]

"It probably started at 2600 - 2700."

We have no idea how they're loading those sniper rounds, but probably hotter than anything we can buy.

They'll be interested in keeping that slug supersonic for as long as possible.

[Radix]

Give that Marine a cigar!

[Radix]

Loved your post nbr. 27, but your name Mercy somehow seems inappropriate upon reflection.

[ApplegateRanch]

Are you SURE?

It doesn't LOOK dangerous!

It does have an awful bayonet lug;

and a dreaded pistol grip;

BUT it doesn't have one them horrid, gazillion round clipper thingies hanging out of the bottom.

And doesn't that long thing with the little handle on it at the back (Boot? Belt? Bolt? Anyway, the bullet pusher-remover-loader whatsamajinggy) mean it isn't even a semi-automatic?

How can that be what he used?

[DuncanWaring]

Where do you see a bayonet lug?

[Ready4Freddy]

4 shots, 3 kills. Took 2 for the driver apparently.

4 shots 4 kills.... I like that score!

[JamminJAY]

Sweet. Cleanup on isle 4...

[HP8753]

I've picked off grackles on a cable, one after another,

Now Eric,we know you meant to say Starlings.

"Picking off" grackles would be a violation of the Migratory Song Bird Act. ;-)

[ApplegateRanch]

Where do you see a bayonet lug?

You mean that isn't what that deadly looking flat piece of black metal at the front of the wooden part is? I thought they put it back there so it wouldn't interfere with the bullets spitting out of the barrel.

What do y'all expect from a publicly educated, intellectual liberal journalist... knowledge?

[DuncanWaring]

You mean that isn't what that deadly looking flat piece of black metal at the front of the wooden part is?

I'd call it a folded-up bipod.

And the "wooden" part is probably some sort of plastic or carbon-fibre composite. ;-)

[jimthewiz]

Deadeye! 4 shots 4 kills....

Now, that is what I call gun control.