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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

if you like snipers, see also carlos hathcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock

the movie trope of a sniper's shot going through another sniper's scope into his eye--hathcock did that

[–] P00ptart 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun.

His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Is he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder..?