How to use a gun
Bookworm on Feb 21 2009 at 11:11 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
A friend sent me this amazing video, which is a few years old. As my friend said, it’s a reminder that a gun is a tool, with its functionality dependent on the user:
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Great video!
Greetings:
Control yourself;
Control your weapon;
Control your target.
I have a cousin in Texas who’s an ex-Green Beret. He sends me a constant stream of videos and jokes, most of them pretty light-hearted.
Recently, however, he sent me a video of Canadian sharpshooters in Afghanistan. The Canucks roam the mountains at will in three-man teams looking for Taliban ambushers and scouts. Two men carry standard military-issue carbines to protect the third man, who carries a 50-caliber rifle. He’s the sharpshooter.
A couple of years ago, a Canadian sharpshooter set a world record when he dismembered a Taliban from 1.4 miles away. Dismembered is the word: When a 50-caliber round hits a soft target, splatter and body parts go flying into the air. It is about as nasty and messy a way to die as there is.
The sharpshooter who set the record had exactly one day to enjoy his fame. Twenty-four hours later a fellow Canuckian sniped a Taliban from 1.5 miles away.
I take back what I said above. I did some poking around and found that the video I referred to was a hoax. The flying body parts were varmints—marmots—and it seems this video makes the rounds from time to time.
Can’t say that the sniper distances are fake, though. I recall that a Union sniper popped a Confederate general from a shade more than a mile away, so there’s no reason why a high-powered modern rifle couldn’t reach a bit further.
I’m catigating my cousin and lashing myself with a giant noodle even as we speak.
Charles as the info I found on Wikipedia. it’s probably true. Carlo Hathcock USMC held the previous record of longest sniper shot confirmed. Here’s the info at the wiki site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Furlong
He was attempting what’s known as “suicide by police”.
That is AWESOME!!!!
I just love watching shows on TV about sharpshooters. They are better than athletes. Sharpshooters aren’t on steroids – they are the real deal.
You can tell a classical liberal from a fake liberal by how they view guns.