A very Scottish take on cupid.
Note the scoped Enfield. IWM image colorized by Doug Ralston
A sniper from “C” Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch, 51st (Highland) Division, in position in the loft space of a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14th February 1945
Edwin Sarkissian brings the heat with a Serbu BFG-50A against a surplus ballistically-protected vision block from a main battle tank.
It looks like a commander’s coupla block from an old M60, but from just a single .50BMG hit, its worthless– though it takes a few to actually drill through it to the other side.
![A Canadian Armed Forces sniper rifle sits ready to fire during Exercise IRON SWORD at General Silvestras Žukausas Training Area in Pabradė, Lithuania on November 10, 2015 during Operation REASSURANCE. Photo by: Corporal Nathan Moulton, Valcartier Imagery Section Canadian Armed Forces. [ note the old-school stock sock, which is made in this case, literally, from a Canuck army sock]](https://i0.wp.com/laststandonzombieisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/c14-timberwolf-sniper-rifle-in-this-photo-a-canadian-armed-forces-sniper-rifle-sits-ready-to-fire-during-exercise-iron-sword.jpg?resize=519%2C345&ssl=1)
A Canadian Armed Forces sniper rifle sits ready to fire during Exercise IRON SWORD at General Silvestras Žukausas Training Area in Pabradė, Lithuania on November 10, 2015 during Operation REASSURANCE. Photo by: Corporal Nathan Moulton, Valcartier Imagery Section Canadian Armed Forces. [ note the old-school stock sock, which is made in this case, literally, from a Canuck army sock]
The 14.5-pound C14, adopted in 2005, is built from Prairie Gun Works’ commercial .338 Lapua Magnum (8.6mm) platform chassis with a McMillian stock, fully adjustable trigger package and 26-inch heavy free-floating spiral fluted Kreiger barrel with a threaded muzzie for quiet time. Effective range is 1,500m and the gun’s USO SN-3 EREK 3.2-17x power optic is capable of pulling that off.
Canadian sniper teams also use an AR-10T (designated the C7CT) in .308 as a backup gun when downrange– which is always a good backup to have.
When the balloon went up on what is now known today as the Second World War, the Allies of the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union found themselves facing perhaps the best military machine of its day. Their enemies, that of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany, were equipped with some of the most advanced sniper rifles in the world. Moreover, the Allies had to play catch-up fast.
Marine Sniper with a Springfield 1903A1 and Unertl 8-power scope. Note the length and size of the objective lens.
Feral hogs across the country have over the past few years become big news. This is because these invasive aliens have exploded
in population and are on the verge of crashing the eco-system in some areas. With this threat growing at such a rapid pace, they
have called in the cavalry in Texas. The air cavalry.
Centuries ago, European colonists brought over from the Old World stocks of animals. These included of course chickens, cows, horses, and pigs. Some of these pigs escaped captivity and quickly became feral. Over the past several hundred years, these feral pigs, intermingled with Russian boars that escaped from hunting preserves, have taken over their environment. They are shown to carry as many as 30 diseases, have caused more than $1.5-billion (with a B) in crop and property damage per year, and are taking their toll on native species. According to information in a study done by Texas A&M University found that the number of feral pigs is likely to triple in five years in the state of Texas if serious efforts are not made to reduce feral-pig populations.
Texas, along with many other states that have wild pig problems, has few limits on how these creatures are taken. Unlike most game that has to be harvested in rigid seasons and are subject to limits, quite often wild boars, Javelina and the like can be taken year-round by almost any means short of nuclear warheads.
One of the most popular means of doing this is by helicopter
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Back in 2011 the Scout Sniper Platoon of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. was lead not by an officer but by a career Senior NCO, SSG (E6) Joseph Chamblin.
Scout/sniper 3/2 did a lot of revolutionary stuff on their Afghan deployment that year. They had more than 223 confirmed kills including high value targets. They did a lot of doctrinally different things, like being a main force engager rather than a supporting arm. They were the evolution of ten years of marine sniper in the war on terror lessons learned.
By January 2012, Chamblin was up for promotion to gunnery sergeant and set to re-deploy to Afghanistan. Within weeks, however, his career was in ruins after a video surfaced, showing him and three other scout snipers urinating on Taliban corpses they were ordered to recover during a patrol in Helmand’s Musa Qala district on July 27, 2011.
Then the fit hit the shan.
From a very enlightening interview in Marine Corps Times
Q. Do you think this video hurt the Marine Corps’ reputation?
A. Well, it depends on what your idea is of what a Marine should be. If your idea of a Marine is a real fancy-looking guy in
uniform that does snap and pop with a rifle and looks real pretty, then yeah, it probably hurt. But if your idea of what a Marine should be is the enemy’s worst f—ing nightmare, then I don’t think it did. But you can’t have both.
Your thoughts?
A team of four Italian Gruppo Operativo Incurson (Operational Raider Group) combat swimmers emerging from a Salvatore Todaro (S526)-class diesel attack submarine. The Salvatore Todaro (S526) is a German Type 212 class 1800-ton advanced SSK. These boats are able to transit up to two weeks without surfacing or snorkeling, which is huge for a non-nuclear boat. Manned by just a 27 man crew, one of these boats can float in 20-feet of water and carry up to 13 DM2A4, A184 Mod.3, Black Shark Torpedo, or IDAS missiles and 24 external naval mines. Oh yeah, and naval swimmers. Note the ease of leaving the sub by the front door. Their weapons of choice are M4-type rifles with the swimmer on the far right carrying one possibly in 7.62x51mm NATO (judging from the straight box mag and longer barrel) which could make it a Mk110 type.
The Operational Raider Group is a unit of just 150-200 hardcore operators inside the more well-known COMSUBIN that are comparable to the US Navy Seals, Royal Marine SBS, or Danish Frogmen corps. They trace their lineage back to the MAS units and X MAS units of World War One and Two, meaning they have more sunken battleships to their record than any other combat swimmers on the market.
When ill-informed people speak of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, they speak only of
how hunting is a noble right and sports shooting is a valid hobby. What is often left unsaid is that the Founding Fathers had intended this inherent right as a protection against tyranny of all sorts. An unarmed society is a society waiting to be enslaved. A legally armed one is a functioning republic.
There is no better modern example of this than in the 1946 Battle of Athens.
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Will a man-portable rifle ever be able to take a target at the 2-mile mark? There are 5,280 feet in one mile. When you double this and convert it to yards, you are looking at 3520-yards (3218.69m) needed to cover in a two mile shot. No matter how you cut it, that is a long way. However, right now teams of firearms engineers are burning lean muscle tissue into the night over pots of coffee as black as your soul—to figure out a 2-mile rifle.
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During the dark years of the First World War, in the market city of Bila Tserkva (White Church) near Kiev in the Russian Ukraine, a young girl was born. This young girl, Lyudmila Mikhailivna Pavlichenko, would become the most dangerous women of the twentieth century. Into her crosshairs walked thousands of German invaders during the great campaigns of the Second World War’s Eastern Front. Of those thousands, no less than 309 Axis soldiers met their end from a 7.62x54mm sniper’s bullet from her gun.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko is the highest scoring and most deadly female sniper in any army in any war.
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