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Longest Sniper kill 2.2 miles !

dmoran said:
That was Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock (picture below) that your referring to.
He passed away in 1999.
It was not a kid on a bike, it was a Viet-Cong, that was brushing his teeth when Carlos laid him out.
Here is a Link to a good article about him: White Feather


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"WHITE FEATHER " is a great read.
Of the more notorious events recalled was Hathcock putting a round through the scope of the NVA sniper who was attempting to do the same thing to Hathcock.
 
Strange timing but the radio news here at 3 PM just talked about that kill. The newscaster said it was 2.1 miles and the sniper was Canadian.

WOW!

Wonder what caliber. Anyone know?
 
Somewhere I have the book with the picture of the rig and although he said in the book it was a VC he also said he was about 15 years old. Plenty of them that young over there. Was not suggesting it was a bad kill.

Bob
 
IIRC (been a long time since I read the book) there was one that was a young guy with a bicycle ferrying munitions, and another (longer) with a Ma Deuce and an 8x Lyman where the main forces were doing a sweep of a valley, and a NVA soldier (might have been VC, don't recall exactly) happened to stop and look around... pretty much standing *right* on the spot where Hathcock had just sighted the gun in earlier. Talk about someone having bad karma... yes, it was a damned long shot. And yes, he pretty much said it was some serious luck / planets all aligned involved.
 
I think the US Navy deserves credit for the longest range combat kill. Two VC's got nailed by one bullet about 14 miles away. That 50 caliber rifle had the US Navy Long Range Rifle Team logo on it. A gunners mate chief petty officer friend of mine managed the people keeping it and two others in his unit tuned up for best accuracy. There were two other units in the command that had three rifles each.
 
Zero333 said:
Just wanted shine some light about the recent Canadian JTF2 sniper kill.

3,540 Meters
3,871 yards
2.2 Miles

We have some admirable first-rate shooters in Canada and I'm proud of them.

Edited original post. Had it at 3,450 meters (3,773 yards). 3,540m/3871y is the corrected distance.
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Awesome accomplishment, you and all of us have good reason to be proud of him. He is fighting in the same war that we are.
 
Bart B. said:
I think the US Navy deserves credit for the longest range combat kill. Two VC's got nailed by one bullet about 14 miles away. That 50 caliber rifle had the US Navy Long Range Rifle Team logo on it. A gunners mate chief petty officer friend of mine managed the people keeping it and two others in his unit tuned up for best accuracy. There were two other units in the command that had three rifles each.
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Bart

What kind of rifle and sight system were used ?

Hal
 
Bart B. said:
I think the US Navy deserves credit for the longest range combat kill. Two VC's got nailed by one bullet about 14 miles away. That 50 caliber rifle had the US Navy Long Range Rifle Team logo on it. A gunners mate chief petty officer friend of mine managed the people keeping it and two others in his unit tuned up for best accuracy. There were two other units in the command that had three rifles each.
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Was that 14(fourteen) or 1.4(one point four) miles? Fourteen sounds more like Artillery than riflery.
 
rkittine said:
Somewhere I have the book with the picture of the rig and although he said in the book it was a VC he also said he was about 15 years old. Plenty of them that young over there. Was not suggesting it was a bad kill.

Bob
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Your post stirred my memory a bit. As I recall, in one incident Hancock didn't want to shoot the rider because of his youthful appearance. So he took out the (front?) wheel...
 
Turbulent Turtle said:
........I cannot believe command would use a sniper team at over two miles to take out a target that absolutely positively had to be eliminated, at all costs.
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Care to explain or clarify your comment? Are you suggesting that "command" should not have Green Lighted the AZZHOLE as civilians could have been endangered by taking the shot? And have you considered that just maybe there was intel close to the target to assist in Greenlighting that POS they blew up? "One in a million shot" comment also does great disservice to the Canadian Sniper Team and their military in general. And if you are suggesting, in any way, that shot should not have been taken, you apparently never been in combat, been shot at and only punch paper from the warmth of your safe surroundings.

Alex
 
Shynloco said:
Care to explain or clarify your comment? Are you suggesting that "command" should not have Green Lighted the AZZHOLE as civilians could have been endangered by taking the shot? And have you considered that just maybe there was intel close to the target to assist in Greenlighting that POS they blew up? "One in a million shot" comment also does great disservice to the Canadian Sniper Team and their military in general. And if you are suggesting, in any way, that shot should not have been taken, you apparently never been in combat, been shot at and only punch paper from the warmth of your safe surroundings.

Alex
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Sure. My point was that one does not build a plan to accomplish something "at all costs," relying on something as improbable as 2+mile rifle shot.

From what I read, the team identified the target and dealt with it, as they are trained to do. I do not see how my "one in a million shot" comment disparages their accomplishment in any way; in fact it praises it even more simply because it is so friggin difficult and awesome. They did as they were trained to do and performed far above and beyond what could be rightly expected. We will learn more in time, I hope, but JTF2 is pretty secretive.
 
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As the story was told, yes he shot out the front wheel while, moving no less, then the kid fell off the bike and started shooting the AK47 he was carrying and then he shot him.
 
Turbulent Turtle said:
Sure. My point was that one does not build a plan to accomplish something "at all costs," relying on something as improbable as 2+mile rifle shot.

From what I read, the team identified the target and dealt with it. As they are trained to do. I do not see how my "one in a million shot" comment disparages their accomplishment in any way; in fact it praises it even more simply because it is so friggin difficult and awesome. They did as they were trained to do and performed way above and beyond what could be rightly expected. We will learn more in time, I hope, but JTF2 is pretty secretive.
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Thx for the quick response. And you confirmed what I thought. I'm going to leave it lye and I seriously doubt anymore info will be forth coming. Only the News Media would try to sensational such a feat, as the participants are only doing their duty and were or are not out looking for glory or the infamous "look what I did." Happy shootin!

Alex
 
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