Canadian sniper makes record shot

Canadian Press via Globe and Mail (Toronto) ^ | July 9, 2002 | Stephen Thorne

[Fixit]

Just wanted to make sure you didn't miss the exploits of this excellent Canadian sniper team.

[Travis McGee]

I think the stories got better with each retelling before they were finally passed on to the SOF reporter.

[Squantos]

LOL.......it happens in every war and now it's their turn :o) I'm just happy they got out alive with their tales that will surely impress and hopefully get em some tail.

Stay Safe !!

[Travis McGee]

It is most surely their turn to strut.

[Entropy Squared]

This Canadian is grinning with pride at his betters.

[RLK]

This is where we need to go in military training. Our people don't know how to use rifles and don't even have any of serious quality. When I was in, using an M1 Garand, iron sites, and poor eyes, anything 300 yards away was hit dead center. Even a four power scope means anything is ausgespielt at 1,000 yards. Today's American military can't shoot and lack basic combat skills. The enemy has been getting away with murder in recent skirmishes.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Today's American military can't shoot and lack basic combat skills.

You obviously haven't spent much time recently at either Edson Range or Parris Island.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

BuMpS for canadian snipers

[School of Rational Thought]

Nice shooting, but Carlos Hathcock didn't use a .50 caliber rifle.

What kind of idiot kicks a bomb that didn't go off?

[Shooter 2.5]

Add a Leupold scope and you're correct. I have a 6.5-20X that a company called Premier bumped up to 18-40X just for giggles. There is absolutely nothing like shooting an accurate rifle with a fantastic scope and dialing exactly to less than a minute in order to hit the target.
My problem is the math. Ok, I missed by 17 inches at 500 with a scope that has 1/4 minute clicks. That's uh,... carry the...divide by 5....multiply by 4... Oh, nuts.

[BluH2o]

Excuse me, but this sounds like propaganda, to make our neighbors to the North feel like they are a part of things.

The Canadian military is small, but well trained and highly professional. They are well paid with a high percentage of those who join the Canadian forces making a career of the military. This high retention rate develops strong experienced leadership, both in the NCO ranks and officer corps. Unit integrity, meaning low turnover is the norm. Company commanders, for instance, may serve in that capacity for three or more years. Here in the U.S. a typical line company commander might serve a year, perhaps eighteen months at the very most.

[CWRWinger]

The Canadians are good shots. It would be interesting to know if they learned to shoot before joining the army.

[jsraggmann]

With the exception of the Spec Ops troops, you are probably correct. I was talking to a Marine Lt a couple of weeks ago and he said that they didn't have the ammo to practice, even if they wanted to. Sad state of affairs!

[Constitution Day]

Out-f*ing-STANDING!!

[dd5339]

Actually Gunny Hathcock did you the .50 cal rifle. The fact that it was a M-2 on a tripod in a sandbagged position still makes it a .50.

Semper Fi!

[RLK]

When I read of taliban throwing rocks at our military and our neding to call in air strikes to deal with it, it tells me what I need to know. Were it me, about the second time some jackass bent over to pick up a rock, he's have a new 30 caliber asshole. In the accounts of the middle east operation consistently show lack of tactical and marksmanship ability.

[Wm Bach]

"It landed 15 metres from the B company (U.S. 101st Airborne Division) trenches. A guy got up, walked out of the trench and kicked the thing."

A potential "Hold muh beer" moment.

Bump for Canuck marksmanship!

[RLK]

I was talking to a Marine Lt a couple of weeks ago and he said that they didn't have the ammo to practice, even if they wanted to. Sad state of affairs!

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Shooting skills begin early as a civilian. Back in the 40s when we were kids the NRA put us through a rifle shooting class with the cooperation of the local police department and their firing range. I was a crack shot long before I went into the army. We have wimpy civilians going into a watered-down military.

A sniper can be trained quite well with 22 rifles. The skills acquired transfer to 30 cal. Even with a single action 22 cal handgun nothing gets away from me at 100 feet at my age.

What we have is a nation of people frightened of, and unable to use, firearms. It affects our military capability.

[headsonpikes]

"What kind of idiot...?"

Well, not a Canadian idiot apparently. ;^)

[RLK]

I might add that at the age of 70 my mother could hit a pack of cigarettes at 150 feet with a single action pistol firing freestyle combat.