@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 months agoSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.worldmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1222cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months agoif you like snipers, see also carlos hathcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock the movie trope of a sniper’s shot going through another sniper’s scope into his eye–hathcock did that
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•2 months agoHe was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun. His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoIs he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder…?
if you like snipers, see also carlos hathcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock
the movie trope of a sniper’s shot going through another sniper’s scope into his eye–hathcock did that
He was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun.
His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.
Is he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder…?