I have a game...theyt said they wanted more

[Mango]

the feather in the boonie is a dead giveaway. :) I knew who it was as soon as I looked at the picture. My dad was stationed at his base while in Vietnam. He's met him many times.

[-J�ker-]

and i thought it would give yall a challenge! glad im not ther only one who knew who it was

[manike]

The book about him makes stunning reading.

He was known as the 'white feather' and used to snype with a 50cal anti aircraft gun fitted with a scope at times!

Some of his shots and actions are legendary. Kind of a hero of mine when I grew up shooting airguns, where ballistics and aiming points are very important.

I used to spend a lot of time with a high powered air rifle as a kid, driving drawing pins at 50-60 metres (bloody good for an air rifle). I once used the ballistics of an air rifle pellet to cleanly dispatch a bunny that I couldn't even see :) I knew at the distance I was shooting that the pellet would go over the rut of mud in the way which was blocking my line of sight (I could see the top of it's ears just) and get to where I wanted it. A friend who was holding a lamp for me was stunned by the shot :) he says he saw the pellet arc through the air and over the rut to a perfectly clean shot. (you can see the back of pellets shining under the lamp when fired at night, it's almost like tracer).

Although paintball has now spoilt my trigger finger and shooting technique, I'm actually toying with the idea of getting a new air rifle... and maybe adding cocker pneumatics for quick recocking... :) possibly on a seperate button activation not the trigger pull... almost like the biathlon weapons... hmmhmm

manike

[-J�ker-]

thats crazy manike... what type of pellet gun was this manike?

[manike]

It was a 'Theoben Rapid 7'... with a few extra special 'manike' tweaks I miss it and wish I had never sold it. Time to get another one and 'tune it up'.

manike

[Mango]

wow thats incredible manike!! My dad has an amazing Walther air rifle. Gorgeous rifle. He uses it to practice for his high power rifle matches. I shoot it just for fun. :)

[manike]

Back when I was younger and had time to waste I used to spend hours practicing my shooting. I'd take different positions and think nothing of putting 500 shots down range in a single session.

I'd get annoyed if 5 shots didn't create a single hole. :)

Firearms are not legal (or at least easy to own) here so I could only ever really shoot an airweapon. Some air rifles deserve serious respect though. You know it wasn't that long ago that they rivalled firearms and were even used to hunt deer!

manike

[RobAGD]

As i refall from the book the m2 50 cal shot was at 2500 yards or something insane like that. The VC happened to stand just where Gunny had sighted the gun in a few days before.

The book makes great reading, and the VC had a silly bounty on him.

I actually at some point made a windows back ground that featured him and several sniper rifles and what not. Lost it to a HD hickup :/

-Robert

[mykroft]

World Record is 2463 Metres, set in Afganistan by a Corporal from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, using a Barrett Mk82 .50BMG rifle.

Gunny Hathcock is a legend in that community, and one of the reasons the .50BMG is used as a sniper cartridge today.

[manike]

That distance is just obscene! Wow.

EDIT: Oh and I remember talking to a friend in the forces and he was saying how a lot of soldiers were anticipating the gulf war because with the long open distances they were looking to see if they could break sniping records!

manike