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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

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

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

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.

SA1911a1 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 2:34 pm 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.