USMC Snipers - VFW Magazine

[Mike Haas]

I don't know how well this is gonna work but these are Pix's of Pictures in my latest VFW magazine 6/7/2009 Credit given to VFW and author John Plaster. An excellant article on American Snipers:

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[Mike Haas]

I don't know how well this is gonna work but these are Pix's of Pictures in my latest VFW magazine 6/7/2009 Credit given to VFW and author John Plaster. An excellant article on American Snipers:

Forgot a step for the pictures - Note the scope on the 50 Cal...

[goo]

i think carlos hathcock used a similar righ to bag a viet cong at about 2500 yards



GySgt. Calos Hathcock was credited with
93 confirmed kills while serving in Vietnam
Un-Officially, his body count exceeds 300
GySgt. Hathcock made a confirmed shot that
all snipers talk about to this day, a shot that most experts
would say is impossible




At approx. 2500 yards, with a .50 caliber M2 machine gun
and with a Unerti scope mounted on it,
GySgt. Hathcock took out the target with one shot
In simple terms, the distance was 1.42 miles
...
Carlos Hathcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[sdkrag]

Hathcock also made the shot of all shots. Took the top NVA sniper though the eye by putting a round through the optics of his scope without damaging the outside of the scope.

[goo]

after that shooting, hathcock said said that gook was keeping an eye out for him.

[gunner]

I think he was the best sniper you ever had. And not only his shooting experiences are are exemplary for us. Also his sense for fairness and the guess when it is better not to shoot (although the target is very interesting)
when the shot can be dangerous for his comrades. He was a great marine.

Regards

Gunner

[Jeff L]

Here is a tribute to him written by Dick Culver.

https://www.milsurps.com/sea_stories...s_hathcock.pdf

[Chuckindenver]

Hatchcock was a true hero,
however,
his record has been broken by current snipers in Iraq, though done with modern equipment,
on my old PC i have a pic, or a dead guy, taken at over 3000 meters with a .50. and a headshot to boot.
also have some footage of Canada,s snipers taking out Taliban at some extreem ranges.
nothing sounds like a sniper rifle accross the mountain ranges...

[Griff Murphey]

Considering that Hathcock's rifle was a pitted barrel ex-special services hunting rifle (according to Jim Land in his AMERICAN RIFLEMAN article) he did damn well. Every book and article about those guys shows that it was very much an improvised program. Hathcock came to the Regionals at Camp Bullis, Texas, in the Spring of 1969 and as a college boy I was introduced to him by S/Sgt John Stanfield who was the platoon sergeant of 4th USMCR Recon Bn Sniper Platoon. I thought he was remote and kind of stuck up until years later when I read Henderson's book and learned he had just received unexpected orders to Vietnam which cheated him out of the NRA regional. I am very grateful that I had this opportunity although it was many years before I truly appreciated who I had met. It was his unique combination of fieldcraft, fitness, stamina, nerve, and marksmanship that enabled him to do what he did. Another book I recommend is Ed Kugler's book from the standpoint of a much more typical USMC sniper, DEAD CENTER.