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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A mouthful of chewed up bacon bits in the face might distract a terrorist enough to give me a little edge.
I’ll take any and all edges I can get!
The worst he can do to me is kill me.
I can send him to Hell.
Looking at the circumstances, I would say Hathcock was under much more difficult circumstances. Hathcock was not authorized to shoot every adult male in his AO.
Great attitude, love it....
True. He also had his time cut short by the injuries he incurred from the fire where he rescued people.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.