Several days ago, I was at our local shooting range playing around with a 223 bolt gun. At the 300 yard range, another guy at the far end and I were the only two shooting. I needed to check several targets down range and walked over to the other shooter. As I approached his table, I notice he was shooting several different hand guns.
I asked him if we could go cold on the range and after I asked the question, we started talking about guns. I told him I was playing around with a 223 but I do have an xc for target competition, and that's when it started to get weird. He starts going off about how he wish he could use his rifle he used when he was in the service. I asked him what rifle he was talking about and he said was part of a special opps sniper team who were trained to capture Saddam Hussein. He tells me this special rifle he used was based off a Russian sniper rifle the U.S. government stole and renamed it the A1 Sniper rifle that was chamber in 7.5 mm and not the 7.62 mm.
He was telling me he went on special missions around the world where he worked as an undercover assassin. He was telling me he could shot anyone in the eye through the scope up to a mile away with that A1. Since the government has retired his A1, he wish he could use the A1 in long range shooting and beat everyone but he can't use a classified weapon. All I said was "Cool," and walked down range.
Just tonight I thought about looking into what that guy said and googled "A1 Sniper Rifle" and was shocked to came across the USMC M40A1 sniper rifle. The M40A1 was built in the 70's and used until the 1999. I then looked up when Saddam Hussein was captured and this was in April 2003. So was I just talking to a hero or a nutt job? Could it be a possibility what he said is true since both time periods are close? I'm bad at guessing age but he looked in his late 60s and was in good health.
I asked him if we could go cold on the range and after I asked the question, we started talking about guns. I told him I was playing around with a 223 but I do have an xc for target competition, and that's when it started to get weird. He starts going off about how he wish he could use his rifle he used when he was in the service. I asked him what rifle he was talking about and he said was part of a special opps sniper team who were trained to capture Saddam Hussein. He tells me this special rifle he used was based off a Russian sniper rifle the U.S. government stole and renamed it the A1 Sniper rifle that was chamber in 7.5 mm and not the 7.62 mm.
He was telling me he went on special missions around the world where he worked as an undercover assassin. He was telling me he could shot anyone in the eye through the scope up to a mile away with that A1. Since the government has retired his A1, he wish he could use the A1 in long range shooting and beat everyone but he can't use a classified weapon. All I said was "Cool," and walked down range.
Just tonight I thought about looking into what that guy said and googled "A1 Sniper Rifle" and was shocked to came across the USMC M40A1 sniper rifle. The M40A1 was built in the 70's and used until the 1999. I then looked up when Saddam Hussein was captured and this was in April 2003. So was I just talking to a hero or a nutt job? Could it be a possibility what he said is true since both time periods are close? I'm bad at guessing age but he looked in his late 60s and was in good health.
