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To: School of Rational Thought
Nice shooting, but Carlos Hathcock didn't use a .50 caliber rifle

I think Hathcock did make some LD hits with a modified .50 machine gun....

Squantos??

66 posted on 07/10/2002 9:47:51 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy
Carlos Hathcock used a standard .50 M2 with a scope attached. That was the only mod. He did sight it in, of course, but it waa a gun he got straight from the grunts he was supporting that day. Fired single shot, it was more than capable of doing the job. When he left, he took the scope. I think it was a Unertl (sp?) scope he used...
68 posted on 07/10/2002 10:00:10 AM PDT by dcwusmc
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