Posted on 01/02/2012 9:19:03 AM PST by Baynative
In north-central Texas, Kyle grew up dipping tobacco, riding horses and hunting deer, turkey and quail — a cowboy at heart.
The son of a Sunday-school teacher and a church deacon, Kyle credits a higher authority for his longest kill.
From 2,100 yards away from a village just outside of Sadr City in 2008, he spied a man aiming a rocket launcher at an Army convoy and squeezed off one shot from his .338 Lapua Magnum rifle.
Dead. From more than a mile away.
“God blew that bullet and hit him,” he said.
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I believe a Finn holds the record. Simo Häyhä - the White Death - had 505 confirmed kills of Russians in the Winter War. Some accounts say he had 700 kills. His tally ended when the Soviets shot off half his face, but he survived and lived to be 96.
The solution you refer to was chosen by Al Qaeda. It backfired pretty badly. It’s easy to scare hajis, but they’ll only stay scared for so long before brutality steels them against you.
Carthage it is, then.
I didn’t enjoy Wasdin’s book as much as I thought that I would. It was a good book but not excellent like I expected/wanted/thought.
Will have to check to see if Library has Kyle’s book to read that one.
Ever read Marucs Luttrell’s Lone Survivor ? now that is *excellent* if you havent read it yet.
Oh, and FYI, AQ applied “it” equally to women and children, non-combatant civilians, schools, hospitals, coffee shops, historical artifacts, artwork, musicians, doctors and teachers on and off the battlefield, 24/7/365.
Maybe that’s what you thought I was advocating, but it’s not, not even close.
there job is to take out the enemy. there have been several good shows on our snipers on TV lately. They work as a team one gives coordinates, wind etc so the sniper can make necessary adjustments to where to shoot. they shoot where the target will be when the bullet gets to him. very interesting. Actual film as its going down.
Yup. My point is that they are not DISCOURAGING the ones not actually killed, they are EMBOLDENING them.
I want Abdul to quit the battlefield after seeing what happened to Achmed.
I do NOT want Abdul to think Achmed was lucky to die in jihad and get his 72 virgins and 28 young boys like pearls to (self censored)...
“Yup. My point is that they are not DISCOURAGING the ones not actually killed, they are EMBOLDENING them.
I want Abdul to quit the battlefield after seeing what happened to Achmed.”
Do our servicemen quit after they see their brothers maimed by IEDs and bullets? Not even close.
" Its true I was involved in an attempted carjacking where I was presented with no other alternative but to use deadly force."
Made me smile.
I’m OK with the Carthage solution you advocate.
That's the retail version of the "modulated conflict" concept that the "Ten Wise Men", the "Best and the Brightest", brought to the Vietnamese War.
They were the ones who chickened out in the end, leaving LBJ sitting there holding his **** in his hand and mumbling to himself, "Somebody poisoned the well."
Fight to win. Kill the enemy.
BINGO! I 100% agree. I've been an instructor for a very long time but I credit my dad for making me understand that shots have to count by buying me a single shot Mossberg .22LR bolt action for my first rifle. I was so little, he had to have the stock sawn off to make it fit! Of course, I was never allowed to just take off (toddle off?) on my own unless he or another skilled adult was with me, but I joined the NRA at about age 5 and the rest is history. When I remember being the XO of the Division Pistol Team, (soooo long ago) I also think of my dad.
Corporal Simo Häyhä had 0ver 500 kills in only 98 dyas. Some seem sure the actual number was closer to 700+.
He did it with iron sights on a Moisin-Nagant rifle.
I learned to shoot with a single-shot (well - even a single “load”) Ithaca .22 rifle. It had a lever-action - but the lever only ejected the shell, and then you loaded by hand another one.
It was great though - and real accurate. My friendss with their semi-autos couldn’t come close. We used to throw stuff in the creek and shoot them. It was soon apparent that I had to be the one to toss the stuff in just to give them a chance to hit it first. (Which was still rare!)
Yes, this is an interesting story...
Like when someone asked me why I bought a Barret .50
When I could have purchased the .416 Barrett that supposedly has a better ballistic coefficient...
I said, “Well, I could have, but when people asked me that I say, I could have had (purchased) a .416 Barrett, they go, hmmmmmmm, ok...But when I say I have a Barrett .50, they go Ahhhhhhhhh, nice!!!”
It’s a psychological things I suppose...;-)
But that .338 Lapua is a really nice system though...I have to give them that...
But that would be politically incorrect..the ACLU would sue on their behalf..
Sadly, yes. Gotta work with what we have.
(Whenever I travel, I carry bacon bits)...
Yeah, but even if I could afford the .338LPM rifle itself (any brand), I'd never be able to feed the durn thing with ammo costing about $100 for twenty rds. Even the big .50 you have comes in cheaper than that I think. Something like $3 a round? Maybe a tad less? Plus, the BMG round is probably easier to come by in just so many ways. Be much easier for the gubmint to choke off access to the .338LP if they so desired.
Now that is funny, I am getting this picture in my head of you throwing bacon bits at some muslim...I think I’ll start to carry some, just in case........GG :O)
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