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Impressive WW2 shooter

Started by The Wolfhound, March 02, 2011, 09:55:22 AM

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The Wolfhound


Hilemark

Very impressive! A five inch grouping at 1000 yards! WOW!

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sashok.privetov

More modern marksmen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8376808/Dead-Men-Risen-The-snipers-story.html

From the article: "Up to about 900 metres, they would aim at an insurgent's head, beyond that at the chest."
There's a standard we should aspire to.

"Major Mark Gidlow-Jackson, their company commander, describes Potter and Osmond as the "epitome of the thinking riflemen" that his regiment sought to produce."

"Thinking Riflemen". Now where have I heard that before?
There is a saying in Russia, a notion really--Texan Politeness:
If you know that everyone around you has a gun, and everyone around you knows that you have a gun, everyone is very polite to each other.

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The Wolfhound

Darn! Yet another book to buy and read.  I love that they call a "Two for" a Quigley.   Has anyone ever offered Tom Selleck an Appleseed?