Posted on 12/10/2009 2:37:34 PM PST by tired1
103 Confirmed Kills
Was an avid hunter as a kid and joined the Marines in 1967. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during Vietnam and holds the record for number of confirmed kills for Marine snipers, exceeding that of legendary Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock. In just 16 months he killed 103 enemies and another 216 kills were listed as probable’s by the military, only because it was too risky at the time to search the bodies for documents. When he left the Marines he told no-one of his of his role during the conflict and only a few fellow Marines knew of his assignments. It was nearly 20 years before somebody wrote a book detailing his amazing skills as a sniper. Mawhinney came out of anonymity because of this and became a lecturer in sniper schools. He was once quoted saying “it was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me. Don’t talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don’t fight back withrifles and scopes. I just loved it. I ate it up.”
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Take it to them Gunny!
Don’t let their Souls rest.
Deny them the Pleasure of their Virgins.
God Bless our Troops, Especially our Snipers.
Thank You for your Service, White Feather.
Don’t try to run. You’ll only die tired.
— source unkown.
lining up a rifle shot]
Private Jackson: Be not Thou far from me, O Lord.
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I am sure I read somewhere that the most successful sniper of all time was a Finn with several hundred, maybe a thousand kills against the Russians.
BTW from an article I read years ago by two American researchers on air to air victories, All nations tried to keep accurate records except for one. Any thing the Russians claimed was basically unsupported by facts. I would guess the same would hold true for their snipers tho they obviously had many air to air victories and had snipers who killed.
These “Top” whatever pieces rarely list the criteria by which selection was made.
Yeah.
He made that list.
The top sniper in Vietnam was US Army.
Just sayin’.
Carlos awarded my son his Hog’s Tooth last year. And Carlos is still regarded as the best sniper ever.
Just checked. I stand corrected. It was a later sniper. But he was from Vietnam. Carlos died in 1999.
Over 700 confirmed dead Russians, 1940. Took a bullet in the jaw, which didn't kill him, but really messed up his face.
In temperatures between −20 and −40 degrees Celsius (−4 and −40 degrees Fahrenheit), dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers,[2][4] and 542 if including the unconfirmed deaths.[4] The unofficial Finnish frontline figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä's sniper kills over 800.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha
Really?
Last year?
He’s been since 1999.
If he really awarded your son LAST YEAR, I’d agree he’s the best sniper since Jesus Christ.
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