I must interject here, my very dear FRiend, Major Jim Land, The Father of USMC Sniping and Carlos Hathcock; the founding fathers of modern sniping.
Cool.
The pos never saw/heard it coming.
Very impressive. Hopefully, he keeps his name and face unknown, unless this is someone who wants the attention, fame and infamy.
Wow. Talk about hitting the enemy when he least expects it....
Hail to the Princess Pats !!!!
That’s over two miles
I must interject here, my very dear FRiend, Major Jim Land, The Father of USMC Sniping and Carlos Hathcock; the founding fathers of modern sniping.
Under the misrule of Baby Doc, Canada has pulled less than its weight against ISIS.
One of the first things Truedope did upon taking office was to pull out Canadian bombers.
So it’s good to see that the JTF operators were able to help out.
TAC-50 apparently has a max range of 3750m so even longer shots are possible !
Not to brag, but, as a father of an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, in on March 20, 2003, here’s what I learned of his second job. First job was in a bridging unit - construction, boat-driver, and truck transportation of equipment (750 miles on their first combat run).
As his sergeant said, “The boy likes to shoot” so when my son was qualifying on the M249 SAW (light machine gun), he gave him 6 box clips (250 rounds each) instead of 3 and let him fire at will.
My son qualified as a sharpshooter for targets at 1,000 yards. I’m impressed at 300 feet, not just at 3,000. Anyway, he got several kills of fedeyeen snipers or assault troops who used women and children as human shields. Fired when he could, didn’t fire when he risked hitting the civilians.
THe one he didn’t get, which I have written about before, was a good Iraqi sniper who was in a multistoried abandoned building. He would shoot and then move to another window or even another floor.
My son would try to anticipate where he might pop up next and put a 3 shot burst into that window. Kept missing him but he was getting a feel for how this guy thought.
Unfortunately he never got the bastard as one of our Abrams tanks came by, saw what was happening, and blew up the building with one shot. End of sniper. My son was pissed. That was his target, but everyone was safer, earlier.
I think Hitchcock set the American record in So. Vietnam at over 1,500 yards, or perhaps more. I’m sure it was at least half a mile away. A VC or NVA Colonel or General who stepped out onto the porch of his hut and BLAM, worm-food.
Jungle sniping is a lot different than desert sniping but our guys who do this are outstanding and deserve our total respect, Americans, Canadians, Brits and Aussies.
Very nice.
golux
RHR
I talked with a guy at our range who had a tack driving M1-A with a 5x22 NightForce scope. He bought the setup with the idea of learning what went into developing the abilities of a sniper. He is into military history.
He gave a stream of conscience presentation for 5-10 minutes, and ended by saying that as far as he was concerned he was still at the bottom of the learning curve these many months later.
Serious sniping.
Are they going to ask him to shoot Canadians who doesn’t use the correct pronouns?
If Carlos Hathcock had a McMillan Tac-50 well who knows?
bkmk
CRACK!
SPLAT!
cool.
Glad he’s on our side.
TALLEY HO!
All terrorists are "civilians".
Here he is serving is country by killing Islamists, and back home his government is welcoming Islamists through the front door.
Sigh.
