Hunting a Sniper!

[Sage]

And I'm really angry nobody has mentioned Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock yet. That guy is the true embodiment of SNIPER word. 93 confirmed kills is just a starter, noting that in Vietnam a third officer beside 2 men sniper had to confirm the kill witnessing live on the spot who wasn't with them when behind enemy lines, where they mostly operated. Hathcock set the world record for the longest sniper kill at a range of 2286 m which held till 2003, killing a VC guerrilla with this ( nothing close to a sniper rifle ) :

Don't you watch History Channel Americanized Documentaries ?

 

[IrbiS]

Don't you watch History Channel Americanized Documentaries ?

A few from youtube.

 

[Oldman1]

So how can one be considered a sniper in today's battlefield if he can't carry a .50 caliber and handle it on his own
Current longest sniper kill record and the one before it were set by two men team operating on their own in hostile environment and Afghanistan's high altitude mountainous humid terrain

That kill didn't involve a .50 cal rifle. It was a 115A3.

And reason why they don't usually carry it.
American Sniper Rifles: 5 of Chris Kyle’s Favorite Sniper Rifles | PrecisionRifleBlog.com

American Sniper Rifles: 5 of Chris Kyle’s Favorite Sniper Rifles

The .50 Cal
This may come as a surprise, but Kyle was not a fan of .50 cals … at least not most of them. He said, “The fifty is huge, extremely heavy, and I just don’t like it. I never used on in Iraq. There’s a certain amount of hype and even romance for these weapons, which shoot a 12.7x99mm round. There are a few different specific rifles and variations in service with the US military and other armies around the world. You’ve probably heard of the Barrett M-82 or the M-107, developed by Barrett Firearms Manufacturing. They have enormous ranges and in the right application are certainly good weapons. I just didn’t like them all that much.”

He goes on to say, “Everyone says that the .50 is a perfect anti-vehicle gun. But the truth is that if you shoot the .50 through a vehicle’s engine block, you’re not actually going to stop the vehicle. Not right away. The fluids will leak out and eventually it will stop moving. But it’s not instant by any means. A .338 or even a .300 will do the same thing. No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.”

But, Kyle did explicitly make one exception to his comments about the .50 cal rifles, saying “The one .50 I do like is the Accuracy International model, which has a more compact, collapsible stock and a little more accuracy; it wasn’t available to us at the time.” Here is the Accuracy International .50 caliber model Kyle was referring to, the AI AX50:

Here is something nice to look at. Anzio 20mm.

 

[Levina]

Sniper Pinned Down By Heavy Taliban Fire
first published on October 5, 2015 by Will

A U.S. sniper team kills a Taliban fighter, giving away their position, and angering the insurgents. The team then has to endure 20 minutes of accurate, high volume fire on their position, and then exfil before enemy reinforcements arrive.

The following is an interview with the “No Slack” cameraman:

Q: How did this engagement begin?
A: It all started when my sniper team saw 5 guys crest the ridge line 1450m away, holding PKM’s, RPK’s and AK’s. We hit one of them and they were pissed off, so 5-6 PKM and RPG teams engaged us. We had about 20 line company guys with us with built up positions and THEY were the ones to get spotted.

Q: How close were the rounds landing?
A: A dozen or so PKM bursts landed inches from my spotter’s foot, and the vegetation next to us in the video was eventually all gone from being ripped apart by rounds. The RPG’s (loud explosions you can hear at 0:37 ) were landing within feet from our position.

Q: What was your distance to the target
A: They were concave, surrounding us, with the closest targets being roughly 400-600m, and the farthest being 1400 – 1500m

Q: What type of weapons were being fired at you?
A: PKM, AK, RPK, RPG’s, and mortars.

Q: How long did the accurate fire last?
A: Very heavy volumes of accurate fire lasted roughly 10-20 minutes, followed by sporadic bursts and accurate single shots from AK and PKM.

Q: What happened after the attack?
A: After the attack we received ICOM chatter that 400-500 more fighters were moving from deep in the Waturpur to engage us the next morning at sun up. We already had RTB’s and had a 7 hour trip back to the COP under 0 loom. We incurred a broken ankle on the way down that required medevac.