Worlds Deadliest Sniper - British Royal Marine with 173 Confirmed Kills

[fire hazard]

I love these murderers! Awesome!

he said behind his desk.

so brave.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1fZHoHkoRo

 

[brainhulk]

I think you have to frame these kills in the context of the quality of the victims. Were they just dumbass russians that just ventured out into the open field like lemmings? Or were they elite republican guard iraqis like what the USA had to snipe...

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Indeed, look at the circumstances: Did he have nice weather and a superior sniper rifle with a scope like that US soldier had, or was he lying in the snow and did he have an M28/30 without scope (as a scope would slow him down and freeze anyway)?

If you want to look at the quality of the kills you can always fall back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev instead, although I'm sure that, just like with White Death, you know exactly how hard each one of Zaytsev's kills were.

 

[pcgeek11]

IMO the most impressive of all those shots in the chart is the Confederate Sniper December 5, 1864 shooting a Whitworth Rifle Hex Barrel .451 Caliber Bullet at 1,390 Yards at Fort Sumter, SC. That is one shootin SOB right there.

 

[JTsyo]

Funny, but growing up and for most of my adult life, I never once ever heard of snipers being revered by the typical never-served military geek. Not up until maybe 10 or 15 years ago. Nowadays, the idea of systematically taking out people from hundreds of yards away seems to hold some kind of huge fascination for the Xbox generation.

Changing world, I guess.

After playing XCOM, I truly appreciate how useful snipers can be in engaging targets others can't. Not like the useless ones in FPS.

 

[DesiPower]

iddqd for sure

 

[kage69]

A lot of talent on that list, but I don't think any of them can hold a candle to that Confederate sharp shooter listed. Precise fire at 300yds with a muzzle loader would be something to crow about. Killing a man out past 1,300yds using black powder and no scope? Holy shit! Imagine what that guy could do with a .300 Win Mag and good Leupold!

I hadn't heard that Furlong lost the record, but whatever, not a contest. I respect the fieldcraft just as much as I do the marksmanship involved. I've never thought Hathcock's use of the ma deuce all that amazing. The solo mission where he spent days on his belly being eaten alive by insects on his way to plug a NVA general, where he didn't have a spotter or the luxury of a ranging shot - that is what makes Carlos Hathcock a complete badass in my log book.