Posted on 12/31/2005 3:04:24 PM PST by Flavius
The Remmington model 700 rifle is probablly the best all around rifle made.
"I believe it is the longest confirmed kill in Iraq with a 7.62mm rifle," said Staff Sgt Gilliland, 28, who hunted squirrels in Double Springs, Alabama from the age of five before progressing to deer - and then people. "
He should write a book when he gets out.
"but I don't recall anyone from my father's generation belly-aching to the point where they were unable to hold a job."
Right on, they came home and moved on with their lives. They are "The Greatest Generation"
Yes.
December 11, 2004
Ramadi Hospital Used as Ambush Firing Position
From Reuters via The Australian :
"Soldiers from the 1st Marine Division ... were ambushed by insurgents operating in and near the Ramadi General Hospital and Medical College," the military said. A statement said the attack took place yesterday.
"Some of the muzzle flashes of insurgent firing positions were observed as originating from windows within the hospital."
The military said rebel fighters had turned off all the lights in the hospital and surrounding buildings as the soldiers approached, before unleashing rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire as soon as the lights were turned back on.
"Soldiers pushed through the ambush, returning defensive fire, some of which was aimed at insurgents in the hospital," the statement said.
It said no US soldiers were wounded or killed in the fighting, but did not give any information about insurgent casualties. The US military's account could not be confirmed.
[...]
The Marines said they would return to speak with staff at Ramadi's hospital to assess the damage caused in yesterday's firefight and investigate the incident.
In a separate incident in the city, the 1st Marine Division said it had destroyed a large weapons cache discovered in a suburb of Ramadi late yesterday.
Iraq = open season, no license required, no bag limits, no tagging and no cleaning of the game...
Boom!!
Headshot!!
:)
I ran that on a conversion website. Three quarters of a mile and change? Veddy nize.
Make it sound as if he's killing Iraqis for the fun of it. Give me a break - the man did his duty.
It made a difference to the IED emplacers who met Allah in Hell
During the November battle for Fallujah, a U.S. Marine sniper made the longest range kills so far in Iraq. Reservist sergeant Herbert B. Hancock, chief scout sniper for the 1st battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, shot four Iraqis at a range of some 970 meters. The 35 year-old marine is a Texas police officer in civilian life. The shooting was done with the bolt action 7.62mm M40A3 rifle. Based on the Remington 700 short action rifle, the M40A3s are hand made to marine specifications. The rifle weighs 16.5 pounds, is 44.25 inches long and uses a 10X scope. The rifle comes with a bipod, and a rail that can also mount night vision scopes. Marine snipers operate in teams of two men, with the other man, who is often also a qualified sniper, acting as a spotter (usually with a 20X scope and binoculars.) A 970 meter shot is difficult for a 7.62mm rifle, especially in Iraq, with it’s heat and humidity (which interferes with the predictability of the bullets flight). A 7.62mm rifle rarely gets hits at more than (or even close to) 1,000 meters, and anything over 500 meters requires a high degree of skill. Shooting is easier in Afghanistan, where higher elevations provide thinner, drier air, and cooler temperatures. A Canadian sniper made a record shot (2,400 meters) in Afghanistan, using a 12.7mm rifle.Here is another one at 1050 meters:
AR RAMADI, Iraq(Jan. 02, 2005) -- Seen through a twenty-power spot scope, terrorists scrambled to deliver another mortar round into the tube. Across the Euphrates River from a concealed rooftop, the Marine sniper breathed gently and then squeezed a few pounds of pressure to the delicate trigger of the M40A3 sniper rifle in his grasp.The rifle's crack froze the booming Fallujah battle like a photograph. As he moved the bolt back to load another round of 7.62mm ammunition, the sniper's spotter confirmed the terrorist went down from the shot mere seconds before the next crack of the rifle dropped another.
It wasn't the sniper's first kill in Iraq, but it was one for the history books.
On Nov. 11, 2004, while coalition forces fought to wrest control of Fallujah from a terrorist insurgency, Marine scout snipers with Company B, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, applied their basic infantry skills and took them to a higher level.
"From the information we have, our chief scout sniper has the longest confirmed kill in Iraq so far," said Capt. Shayne McGinty, weapons platoon commander for "Bravo" Co. "In Fallujah there were some bad guys firing mortars at us and he took them out from more than 1,000 yards."
[...]" Our (company commander) told us to go find where the mortars were coming from and take them out so we went back out," remembered Han*censored*. "We moved south some more and linked up with the rear elements of our first platoon. Then we got up on a building and scanned across the river. We looked out of the spot scope and saw about three to! five insurgents manning a 120mm mortar tube. We got the coordinates for their position and set up a fire mission. We decided that when the rounds came in that I would engage them with the sniper rifle. We got the splash and there were two standing up looking right at us. One had a black (outfit) on. I shot and he dropped. Right in front of him another got up on his knees looking to try and find out where we were so I dropped him too. After that our mortars just hammered the position, so we moved around in on them."
The subsequent fire for effect landed right on the insurgent mortar position.
"We adjusted right about fifty yards where there were two other insurgents in a small house on the other side of the position," said Flowers. "There was some brush between them and the next nearest building about 400 yards south of where they were at and we were about 1,000 yards from them so I guess they thought we could not spot them. Some grunts were nearby with binoculars but they could not see them, plus they are not trained in detailed observation the way we are. We know what to look for such as target indicators and things that are not easy to see."
Han*censored* and Flowers then scanned several areas that they expected fire from, but the enemy mortars had silenced.
"After we had called in indirect fire and after all the adjustments from our mortars, I got the final 8-digit grid coordinates for the enemy mortar position, looked at our own position using GPS and figured out the distance to the targets we dropped to be 1,050 yards," said Flowers with a grin. "This time we were killing terrorism from more than 1,000 yards."
Don't try to run--you'll just die tired.
That's okay, we will make more bullets.
BUMP!
The turd in the punchbowl is more like it.
Or build your own. You can make a fine rifle out of a $80 VZ-24 Mauser, Timney adjustable trigger, and Shilen barrel.
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