I'm surprised they're still using .308 for such distances. The Secret Service counter-sniping team switched to 7mm mag and 300 Win mag awhile ago. Amazing as it is, there were a few 1000 yd confirmed kills in WWII and Korea with those old optics! (See the book One Shot One Kill.)

A reservist too. Kick ass.

Oh, and go figure I get a link from Michelle Malkin right at the beginning of my vacation, one that I don't even notice for about 5 days after it happened. *sighs*

Thanks though Ace for the hat tip that led to her link!!

As amazing as it is, get a load of this: Marine super-sniper Carlos Hathcock scored a confirmed kill in Vietnam from 2,500 yards away.

2,500 yards.

Bob Dole's cock was quoted as saying "Oooh Rah!"

Thank Playstation, X-Box, Nintendo...

Anyone interested in Carlos N. Hathcock owes it to themselves to read Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills by Charles Henderson.

Thank the NRA, Boy Scouts, Explorers....

Now THAT'S hot.

Later,
bbeck

This one was quite impressive.

http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/KillingShot_2430Metres.asp

http://www.riflebarrels.com/articles/50calibre/50sniping.htm

Wow. So that's what you can accomplish when you field a +7 Rifle Of Infinite Justice.

Very impressive.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

No wonder the islamabaddies are sticking to blowing up Iraqi policemen nowadays.

Not to denigrate this Marine's shot, nor to equate combat sniping with target competition, but some may not know that 1000 yard shooting is not all that uncommon. See...
http://www.palma.org/USA/basics.htm

Nice that the Marines are skilled at long-range shooting, but the number of insurgents has grown in a year from 5,000 to 25-30,000 by Iraqi Interim Gov't estimates. Most are well-trained ex-Iraqi military, evidently whiling away their unemployment time.

Now, the snipers are great and bless 'em, but better than a marine sniper squad would be just one reliable informant....

Maybe the military should hire you to give them advice about how to do their job.

Here's a moving tribute to "The Man".

http://www.marinescoutsniper.com/sniper%20pages/Carlos.html

To Allah: That 2,500 yd kill by Carlos Hathcock was done with a single .50 BMG shot, not a .308. As .50 sniper rifles are becoming more common so are 1 mile shots.

If sniper stuff floats your boat, you might like Stephen Hunter's "Time to Hunt." It's kind of Ramboish, but I thought it was quite enjoyable and interesting.

A Canadian sniper team in Afghanistan made a kill at over 2600 yards.
The first shot blew a bag from the hand of their target, an Al Qaeda fighter walking on a road.

"He didn't even flinch," said Bill, who spoke on condition that his real name not be used.

"We made a correction and the next round hit exactly where we wanted it to. Well, a bit to the right."

The kill, one of more than 20 unofficially accredited to Canadian snipers during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley, beat the 35-year-old record of 2,500 yards, or 2,250 metres, set by U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock in Duc Pho, South Vietnam.
http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/KillingShot_2430Metres.asp

It's nice that he nailed a Haji from a distance but, who was the idiot who decided to publish this story?
It's garanteed that he has a price on his head now.
Why do think we remain anonymous when we take our shots?

The Marines published it. I guess they figure they can defend their own.

"Most are well-trained ex-Iraqi military"

....that's funny.

Moose, that's incredible. Don't they real;ize what these animals will do to that man if he were captured?
The stinkin Corp continues to amaze me.

It doesn't matter to the enemy if captured personnel are marine snipers, or whatever.

That lady they found disemboweled and delimbed in Fallujah was an aid worker loved by the Iraqis.

So from the Marines' viewpoint, why bother keeping the secret?

No lauraw, disemboweling is nothing compared to what could be done. You have to remember that these people have gone by the Koran so far.
Eventually, they're going to get creative. Gut cutting, loping, burning people alive.
Unfortunately, the list is endless. They haven't even begun to get ruthless yet.