SNIPER'S SUCCESS LIST

[tomaustin]

SNIPER LIST


Longest sniper shots:
2009 Cpl. Craig Harrison (UK) in Afghanistan 2,700 yds. L115A3 .338 Lapua
2002 Rob Furlong (CDN) in Afghanistan 2,560 yds. McMillan Tac-50 .50 BMG

2004 Sgt. Brian Kremer (USA) in Iraq 2515 yds. with Barrett M82 .50 BMG

Some of the highest numbers of enemy purportedly killed:

Lance Cpl. Simo Häyhä Talvisota/Winter War (Finland) 500+ 9mm KP31 SMG and 7.62mm M/28 rifle.
Mikail Ilyich Surkov WWII (USSR) 600+? 7.62mm 1891/30
Vladimir Gavrilovich Salbiev WWII (USSR) 600? 7.62mm 1891/30
Vasilij Kvachantiradze WWII (Georgia/USSR) 530? 7.62mm 1891/30
Vasili Grigorievich Zaytsev WWII (USSR) 242 7.62mm 1891/30
Matthäus Hetzenauer WWII (Austria/German Reich) 345 7.92mm K98k (Kar-43 too?)
Liudmilla Pavlichenko WWII (Ukraine/Russia) 309 7.62mm SVT-40 and 1891/30

CPO Chris Kyle (USA) Iraq 160? 250? McMillan TAC-.338, Mk. 12 5.56mm, M4 5.56mm
Sgt. Aldelbert Waldron III Vietnam (US Army) 109 .30-06 M1903A4, M700 and 7.62mm XM21
Chuck Mawhinney Vietnam US Marines 103 7.62mm M40
WWI
Cpl. Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow (CDN/Ojibwa) 370+ .303 Ross rifle
Trooper Wm. Edward “Billy” Sing WWI (AUS) 150 .303 SMLE

[Junk Yard Dog]

Harvesting souls. The numbers that count and the ones witnessed by others. Think how many more went unwitnessed.

[SA1911a1]

A mile and a half is really reaching out and touching someone.

[steelbuttplate]

There were many Russian soldiers that stayed in that frozen column in '39 that never saw a Finnish soldier. The Finns were in a camouflage shooting gallery of sorts, cold as blue hell and getting shot back at, bombed, but in their element. Probably the highest sniper kill ratio of any war.

[Miller Tyme]

[steelbuttplate]

A mile and a half is really reaching out and touching someone.

I got shot at from about 3/4 mi. away. The round hit a dirt bank about 3 ft. over our heads. The same guy shot/ wounded two other people the same way at other times. He did serve some time for it. A distinguished WW2 vet that never could stop shooting people, add Alcohol and pills and you get a mean ol son o bitch that might kill you. One of the men he shot in the leg found him at a juke joint in town and beat him nearly to death, him with a cast still on his leg from being shot. I think the old basturd died in the State pen.