Posted on 07/29/2006 12:58:46 PM PDT by traumer
Hathock and his spotter took out an entire VC company in the course of three days, over a hundred men, leaving only one survivor. Sergeant May, like all of us interested in such things, thought/assumed those kills were confirmed.
Sergeant May (now retired) is a DSC winner. I'm sure one could look up his record, if one was so inclined.
In order to find out what the rifles themselves can do, you have to eliminate yourself as the factor. In other words, you have to literally put the rifle in a vise with a good machine rest and like I said, put one heck of a magnified scope on it. Anything over twenty five power is probably overkill.
Using the suggested velocity and bullet weight can shrink the groups a little bit but not as much as the rest and scope.
According to his book Hathcock was extremely frustrated in how a countersniper kept well out of range while using a valley's dense forest and bowl features to his advantage. One day he was told that the sniper was boldly moving about a high terrain feature confident that he was out of range. Seeing a troop-carrier with a 50 caliber machine gun mounted on it nearby he was inspired to modify it to single-shot with improvised sighting. Using that Carlos was able to kill that bothersome bug at two miles distance, more or less.
It was tragically ironic that he was on a similar troop carrier when it caught on fire under bobardment and gave him injuries severe enough to take him out of the war effort for good. Hathcock, as usual, rose above his personal self interest and sustained more damage than necessary while rescuing a fellow occupant from the vehicle.
"The sixth man dived off a 3-story building just as Wilson got him in his sights, and counts as a probable death."
LMAO.. better chances jumping off cuz facing a Marine Sharpshooter is a one way deal.. LOL
I agree. It was myself and a non-involved hobbyest friend on range-supplied sandbags. Results were consistent but if you're telling me that the German's product has a crappy lifetime I'll take your word for it.
I'm thinking of sharpening archery skills now that I learned that the county I moved to (Tennessee's Wilson Co.) hosts one of the national competitions. Can you believe actress Geena Davis came milimeters from qualifying for the Olympics in that field? True stuff. Keep keen!
Tell that to the jihadists he's sent to the demon called allah.
on the origiinal M-16, the cross-carrier pin was configured like a cotter pin. The side of the carrier that the head belonged in had a deeply chamfered opening to insert the pin into, burying the looped end of the pin below the carrier O.D. The length of the pin kept it from protuding beyond the carrier on the opposite side.
With the loop end of the pin on the wrong side of the carrier, you could easily get the assembled carrier into the receiver, but it only fired once. This prob was widely known by the time I got there Jul 67, but those there earlier learned the hard way sometimes......some names are on the Wall due to this :(
The new carrier and pin fixed this, as you simply cannot get the carrier into the receiver if the pin is placed into the carrier from the wrong side.
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Americans and Taiwanese were using Boys anti-tank rifles--- modified to use Ma Deuce barrels and ammo---back in the '50s to shoot at Red Chinese soldiers. They popped away at one another between little outpost islands that lay between Taiwan and the mainland.
There was also a lingering airwar going on, noteworthy for instance in the loss of a dozen or more U2s with Taiwan pilots.
The P5 Amtracs had gasoline engines and fuel tanks for a couple hundred gallons under the floorplates IIRC. Anyway, we lost quite a few to mines and that's why you'll see a lot of VN pictures with the Leatherheads riding on the roof. Plus the gravel crunchers could see and shoot back and also un-ass faster from the roof than having to wait for the front ramp to drop and get out that way.
Wow, are you smoking crack high speed?
Nice tip Fatuncle, I will keep that in mind when the moops come back for more.
Just wait until he goes through the Marine sniper school. He might be dangerous then.
You didn't kill twenty people. You killed twenty terrorists.
I remember reading, long enough ago that I cannot identify the source (a book on special ops, but I can't say which one) of a sniper in 'Nam, using a specially modified M-14, one with a silencer and a night scope, picking off most of a VC foot patrol that was walking along the top of a dike in a rice paddy. He started at the back and worked to the front, dropping them one by one, and none of them knew about it until one well up in line dropped a weapon as he went down and one in front turned to caution him to silence. I have no idea if any escaped.
I believe that particular article was about the silencer, come to think of it.
Why sure...they put their heads together...
Can't get a thought out of one so they bunch up.
Not crazy about seeing his picture posted or his name mentioned in the article..
2,500 yards with a 700 grain boattail bullet.
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