Marine Scout Snipers

[Monsterlover]

I came across these on youtube and thought they were really good.

I have a lot of respect for long range shooters.  These are a good watch as you get a great overview of the history of the sniper.

USMC Scout Snipers part 1

USMC Scout Snipers part 2

USMC Scout Snipers part 3

USMC Scout Snipers part 4

USMC Scout Snipers part 5

[DRKWNG]

Just finished sponsoring a Marine Sniper at work through the Wounded Warrior program.  He had his ankle and foot messed up pretty badly while out at RC West, in Afghanistan.  Kid was super sharp; it was great being able to swap stories from our different "sides" of the stick.

[Monsterlover]

Im too civilian to get your codewords, but you get a anyhow

[sno_duc]

I've read two of the books mentioned in this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock

The guy was unreal 

[Buckethead]

Before shipping to boot camp, my recruiter took a bunch of us DEPers from Long Island down to Staten Island to tour the ships during fleet week. One of those ships was the LPD-17 USS San Antonio, the flagship of its class of Gator Freighter.

The tour consisted of a series of stops, each of which hosted some of the toys that the embarked Marines used to wage war with some poor duty section schlub standing by to answer questions. First stop was a 155 howitzer, second stop was a turret-equipped deuce-and-a-half, etc, etc. The most memorable stop, to me, was as you walk up a loading ramp and turn the corner around a bulkhead, you're greeted by an assortment of small arms laid out on floor mats atop the non-skid. Among other goodies (automatic 40mm grenade launcher, tripod-mounted M2) there was a scoped M-16 with silencer and flip-up iron sights, an M-40A3 bolt-action rifle, and a Barrett M82-A1, all on bipods. Some random LCPL was giving the presentation for this section of the tour, but standing kinda off to the side was this small, wiry, heavily tattooed guy wearing chewed up, old school "woodland" trousers, a green t-shirt, and a ghillie suit bottom held up by suspenders.

LCPL So'n'so tells the group "Go ahead, pick em up, pull the trigger, see what they're like. These are the tools we use." While the housewives and kids in the group were pawing all over the standard-sized rifles, I took advantage of the opportunity and, after getting the nod from the guy in the woodlands, dropped to the prone behind the Barrett. After watching a series of women and children put the stock of his rifle over their shoulder so that they could get their eye RIGHT UP TO the ocular lens on either of his other rifles, his first words to me were "You've shot before, haven't you?"

I sat there for a good half hour and talked equipment with the guy. My recruiter finally pulled me away so as not to split the group of us. His biggest pregnant dog: "I hate working with the SEALs. They get all the cool toys."

The thing that I remember most about that, tho, is that the Barrett was painted in desert camo colors, but along the right side of the mag well, written in black Sharpie, was a singe word: "Jessica."

[Kopfjäger]

Got the MOS, trained the job for a year. Now I teach it to SOF.10yrs.

[Goat_Herder]

Cool videos!

[redxblack]

I knew a girl who's dad was a marine sharpshooter. He shot through a dime at (I think) 600 yards. His daughter wore it as a necklace charm. That's one way to keep douchebags from dating your daughter.

[Kopfjäger]

I call bullshit on that, unless he used drill press.

[DRKWNG]

I call bullshit on that, unless he used drill press.

Yea, that's what I was thinking.  A dime is pretty flipping small.  Not saying that he could not hit it, but there really wouldn't be much left of it if he did, and it definitely would not be in any condition to be able to wear as a pendant. 

[Kopfjäger]

Crosshairs st that distance would complety cover the coin. You couldn't even see it.

[DRKWNG]

Like you know anything about this stuff.   

[ducpainter]

posers

[Kopfjäger]

I saw a movie once. 

[Kopfjäger]

posers

where is that address?