'Deadly' Canadian snipers cut down enemy fighters

The Globe and Mail ^ | March 14, 2002 | DANIEL LEBLANC

[Pharmboy]

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[McGavin999]

Let's hear it for the Canucks! Thanks guys, you're great.

[Sir Beowolf]

Thanks Guys, One Shot, One Kill

[r9etb]

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Damn, but that's an awful name for a military unit.

"Ooooooh, thargent! Thereth one over there! Ssshoot him! Ooooh, you got him!"

[Black Powder]

Thanks Guys, One Shot, One Kill

Remember how bin Laden complained about the daisy cutters and claimed that 7 grams is all one needs to kill a man? The Canadians have tested his theory and happily report that he is correct.

[oldvike]

Good shootin' fellas!

[Ciexyz]

Way to go, guys. Now I'm going to re-watch my VHS tapes of "Sniper" and "Enemy at the Gates" in your honor.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Damn, but that's an awful name for a military unit.

....And I put the odds of you walking away upright from telling them that at...ohhh.....slim to none....leaning real heavily towards none...

heh heh

[oldvike]

Out of curiosity, you wouldn't happen to know (as a rough guesstimate) what the average muzzle velocity is of a standard sniper rifle?

[ikanakattara]

Strike up the band for a rousing chorus of "O Canada..."

[Tailback]

I wonder if some of those guys were at the Wilson matches last October. I might have met some of them.

[GOP_1900AD]

What was true on Iwo Jima is true now. Slogging it out with rifles, mortars, grenades and flame throwers is the way to clean 'em up.

[Tailback]

I believe the 168 grain .308 has a muzzle velocity of 2,650 fps but don't quote me on that cuz I've never been to sniper school. They might have the new 175 grain stuff over there but I don't know the velocity of that.

[usconservative]

Thank You Canada! That's a few less scumballs taking up our air.

Note to self: stop making fun of Canada's military, by insinuating a well armed Boy Scout troop could take over the entire country now will ya?

[bourbon]

While Canadians soldiers have killed people during peacekeeping missions, the last time the country's military used lethal force in combat was in 1953.

Now tell me, boys, I know it's been a long time...but don't it feel good?

[MissAmericanPie]

Go Canada, wheew. Don't you wish we could see some of this?

[McGavin999]

Note to self: stop making fun of Canada's military, by insinuating a well armed Boy Scout troop could take over the entire country now will ya?

Don't do that, if we stop teasing them they'll think we don't love them anymore.

[IncredibleHulk]

Out of curiosity, you wouldn't happen to know (as a rough guesstimate) what the average muzzle velocity is of a standard sniper rifle?

Depends on the caliber but for a 170 grain VN era 3500 ft/sec.

[KurzeHaare]

The tradition continues...