I really need to indulge myself in an emersion of Americanisms, as I'm really not enjoying this international fame this blog has acquired.
It is one thing to be on point and having discussions of one's assassination bandied about to hone ones steel, but this regime of 3rd world Obama is like sitting at a Luo latrine in 90 degree heat, 90% humidity and flies biting you to the bone.........no enjoyment in it at all.
So children, I will to take you by the hand into the world of adults who the pristine example of Ladies and Gentlemen, who most of you have never heard of.
I was reading some headlines out of the British press, you no doubt witnessed a few months ago in some Brit sniper bragging he had made some "long shot" and the Brits were all a tizzy like Matt Drudge over it. Apparently that is what goes for a sniper in the isles now and no doubt this shooter gathers his unit commander around his latrine deposit every morning, so the Brits can all "ooooo and ahhhh" over that accomplishment too.
A Sniper whispers death as that is what a Sniper is, for he or she is a terror weapon, meant to neutralize other snipers and to kill the enemy to demoralize the hell out of them.
It loses all effect if one is bragging about long distance shots, as even the dead do not like braggarts. The fear is in the not knowing.
As most children are unfamiliar with this venue, in reality, the Sniper is one of three manifestations which do cross over into other fields. There is the primary Sniper. There is the Spotter. There is the Scout.
The Sniper is the expert on placing shots in a 97% frequency of killing people at any range and in various modes of tools from medium range, long range, medium caliber and heavy caliber weapons.
Firearms must be tuned to each shooter, as each shooter's point of impact is different, in most cases. It is rare in a unit of 20 to ever have two shooters whose impact point is the same. So it is more than one shot and one kill, it is one rifle, one shot, one kill.
A Sniper requires a Spotter to watch his six, to relieve the sniper position, to acquire targets and to call shots taken, so the Sniper can adjust if other shots are presented.
The pure Spotter is a remarkable accessory in matching ability for ability of the Sniper, but excelling in not having the ego of being a primary shooter and being naturally skilled to mirror the Sniper in knowing their every move by instinct.
It is a great deal like a blocking line in the NFL in the offense knowing what their other mates are going to do.
It is one thing to be a carrier commander, but the captains who are in the frigates chasing tail are the more skilled in their blocking actions protecting the carrier group.
The Scout is a unique combination in not being a primary shooter or spotter, but being like Kit Carson in moving through country, observing the enemy, setting traps, making preliminary sniper hides, taking shots when presented, and accomplishing it all without the enemy ever knowing the Scout has been in the area.
It is in every way the legendary Carlos Hathcock lectured in, "This is a shooting match and second place is a body bag".
While Sgt. Hathcock had the White Feather sniper rifle named for him, I have never liked the 308 NATO nor have I been in love with semi automatic rifles as what can go wrong does go wrong.
The bolt action is a much more sound implement and KISS is the principle to make problems go to sleep and not have them waking up when some missed target gets on your six and starts spraying lead trying to flush you out.
There are many modes of snipercraft. Urban, desert, arctic and jungle. Each provides a unique situation for sniper counter sniper.
If you recall, Saddam's kinsmen had a little prick picking off cherry Americans in Iraq for some time. Obviously as it stopped, the murderer was killed. There is always some psychotic persona in all militaries who have serial murder tendencies working out who enjoy shooting people, especially cherries as the thrill is in the terrorizing of the group.
There is a vast difference in a Kit Carson, Carlos Hathcock or Simo Hayha, the White Death of Finland, who literally was the most accomplished sniper in arctic warfare in World War II, while being targetted by the Soviet Red Army, Hayha, recorded in 100 days, over 800 kills.
He pioneered many methods from a flash cloth on the ground so the rifle blast would not kick up snow to reveal his position and he utilized iron sights as he prefered to keep his head lower than the site plane with as scope.
His tool was the crudely made Mosin Nagant, which was also the tool of the VC in the Vietnam War.
I do suppose that you are wondering who the Gentleman is pictured above, so will address him as Col. Jeff Cooper. This Marine started and ran the Gunsite School which taught operational action and reaction in small arms craft.
His methods should have been mandatory for all police forces to be trained in, as they were a discipline to keep one alive. The Colonel was a jove to those who followed him and many like myself adored him for the complete man he was. When John Dean Cooper spoke, it was the voice from the mount.
My judgment in Col. Cooper's greatest achievement like Sgt. Hathcock..........and to a great extent Maj. Land of the Marine Corp Sniper Program were the refinement of rifles and techniques for combat to keep one alive as the soul is married to the weapon.
Col. Cooper created the Scout Rifle, and while the Steyr Scout did not have the raw American beauty of the Cooper prototype design, it's principles were well founded on the bedrock of what a Scout required in a firearm. Some like myself though are prejudiced in what one has had repeticious comfort with in a receiver mounted scope and Americanized stock, and still prefer the Government 30 caliber from 1906 as the fodder for all long distance marksmanship, instead of that 308 NATO, but one does become attached to the Scout rifle in many ways that one has a fondness for the M 14 which of course is that 308 NATO which one can not get away from unless one is in an Asian sniper corp.
For a Scout, wind means betrayal of their scent to an enemy unseen. For a Spotter, wind means mental corrections to assist in the Sniper's next shot. For the Sniper, wind is the breath which breathes life to the dead shot.
I will conclude that no 1000 yard shooters are reading this nor are any one clicks. For this reason, this blog will walk you through the mystery of what makes the Sniper/Spotter/Scout such a computerized dichotomy of physics.
Your eye is constantly a part of your scope. You search for movement, but the entire time, one is watching the mirage, the heat waves which are produced and how the wind drifts this wave at an angle.
This mathematical assignment is the board of the Sniper though, as they measure angle of this mirage and then divide it by 4, to multiply it at quarter click, half click, three quarter click or full click......of if you are not metric, by the yardage, in if it is 800 yards, one multiplies it by 8.
The Sniper then divides this angle wind speed by distance, by 4 again, and in that, the answer arrives at the half minutes for the windage for a shot.
As your brain is rolling around in your skull at what you just read, it is just say you have a 10 degree mirage, you divide that by 4 and get 2.5.
You take that 2.5 and multiply times 8, which is 20, and then you divide that by 4 again, and arrive at the number 5.
That number 5 means approximately 2 to 5 inches in a varable 10 mile per hour wind that you have to hold into the wind.
You also have to regulate temperature as hotter temperatures cause powder to burn faster, meaning the bullet will elevate..........so to if the weather is less humid the bullet will rise as there is less resistance in the atmosphere against the bullet.
Slow the heart rate, steady breathing and as one exhales your finger is coming to roll on the trigger and at that moment with the sites on the target the firearm goes off and an enemy is sanctioned to send no more Americans home in body bags.
This of course is your physics lesson as you have already noted in setting up a forward hide for your hypersonic bullet to draw attention to as it "cracks" off some object, to make an enemy's eyes draw toward that position so you remain hidden as you withdraw down one or two escape routes you have chosen, which provide blind alleys from unfriendly fire or observation.
That was your geography lesson, as for your astro lesson, you have planned your hide so as not to be ever facing the sun, nor being impeded by long shadows as the enemy always comes out to play in twilight, and even with flash suppressors you must have your muzzle flash secluded to the utmost extent.
Now for your psychology lesson as the enemy knows the key positions on the zenith of a hill so one is not back lit, knows secondary position a Sniper creates their hide in, in the area the eye by nature overlooks and knows things like insects swarm around the human form, to betray position for a mortar strike.
Sometimes in an urban environment as with Saddam Hussein's murderous lunatic sons, it is just easier to put a TOW missile through the window on a wire.
A TOW would have worked on Sheik bin Laden as a TOW would have saved those Obama SEALS, but then these special forces are not Snipers, Spotters or Scouts, although they manifest parts of the protocols, the SSS is instead a team and singular concept of efficient dispensation of death.
As it is 1504 hours I should perhaps quit enjoying myself for today and get back to work. The Whispering Death though implemented by the true Sniper/Spotter/Scout is thee utmost of skilled work in combat theater, that few have ever explained to the Civilian masters. They can in consort do as much damage as a regiment and in units inflict as much damage on the enemy as entire divisions.
Their work never makes headlines and when they make a mistake their deaths never have national shock as like the combat infantry, no one notices the Silent Soldier, whom they should.
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