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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 503600" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>That sounds just like me. </p><p></p><p></p><p>In the original post there was a question about snipers hunting people and hunters hunting animals. I do not know anything about civilian LEO snipers and will confine my remarks to military snipers. In the later stages of the Vietnam war each Army infantry battalion had 6-10 snipers attached to it and a variety of weapons were used under a variety of conditions and terrain and a variety of tactics. One of the regionally famous snipers, Pappy Leach, shot an NVA soldier in the head at a range of 18 inches. With the current war zones including a lot of urban warfare the sniper training has begun to include a lot of urban tactics. The current Special Forces tactics is a retrogression to Vietnam tactics with the blending in of the urban setting. Most of this stuff is readily available on the internet.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/8253" target="_blank">DVIDS Publication Issues</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I seldom trophy hunt as I grew up hunting squirrels and so my philosophy is let's go hunting and enjoy ourselves and maybe we will shoot something and maybe we won't. I have killed enough animals at 1000 yards that I no longer consider it a difficult shot so I switched back to bowhunting and to an XP pistol. The last two elk I killed with a rifle were both a 450 yards and not very challenging as far as making the shot. The last deer I killed was about 350 yards or so and on the last day of the season. During that two year period I deliberately set up and passed on animals until I had managed to kill three animals each at over a 1000 yards. With a rifle expressly built for killing animals at extreme range and with the correct amount of skill it becomes routine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 503600, member: 8"] That sounds just like me. In the original post there was a question about snipers hunting people and hunters hunting animals. I do not know anything about civilian LEO snipers and will confine my remarks to military snipers. In the later stages of the Vietnam war each Army infantry battalion had 6-10 snipers attached to it and a variety of weapons were used under a variety of conditions and terrain and a variety of tactics. One of the regionally famous snipers, Pappy Leach, shot an NVA soldier in the head at a range of 18 inches. With the current war zones including a lot of urban warfare the sniper training has begun to include a lot of urban tactics. The current Special Forces tactics is a retrogression to Vietnam tactics with the blending in of the urban setting. Most of this stuff is readily available on the internet. [url=http://www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/8253]DVIDS Publication Issues[/url] I seldom trophy hunt as I grew up hunting squirrels and so my philosophy is let's go hunting and enjoy ourselves and maybe we will shoot something and maybe we won't. I have killed enough animals at 1000 yards that I no longer consider it a difficult shot so I switched back to bowhunting and to an XP pistol. The last two elk I killed with a rifle were both a 450 yards and not very challenging as far as making the shot. The last deer I killed was about 350 yards or so and on the last day of the season. During that two year period I deliberately set up and passed on animals until I had managed to kill three animals each at over a 1000 yards. With a rifle expressly built for killing animals at extreme range and with the correct amount of skill it becomes routine. [/QUOTE]
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