[Snowyman]

Germans were the most accurate

So we'll forget about Lyudmila, justified or not, and use Matthias Hetzenauer(345) or Heinz Thorvald (300). Perhaps Sepp Allerberger(257),Gefreiter Meyer(180) or Oleh Dir (120). All good German snipers. Scores weren't my point. All snipers dealt with environment. Each, if he lived , used it to his advantage. As good as Hatcock was in hs environment the others , German in the case of WW2 , were as good in theirs. They lived. Would Hatcock have survived on the fields of Flanders or the rubble of Stalingrad ? Or our good Germans the jungles of Asia? We'll never know . There is no best.

[yarddog]

Obviously it is impossible to know who the best sniper really was. Even trying to judge by number of kills is impossible since there is no way to verify most of them anyway.

I read the book, about Carlos Hathcock, I think it was titled "Marine Sniper" and his accomplishments were spectacular. I recall one incident in which he and his spotter just about wiped out an NVA company. (His spotter was using an M14 and may have got more than Hathcock.) I don't think any of these were counted as confirmed kills.

Shooting Russians in the rubble of a burned out city is different than stalking individuals in the jungle. Who knows? I do know I wouldn't want any of them after me.

[US Does it the Best]

Hatcock and his partner Corporal John Burke held a company of 300 NVA regulars for five days and then finished them off with artilery. These WW2 snipers may have been good at picking off people on a battlefield, but there's no way they could have done that.