Carlos Hathcock.....

never met him personally but did hear him up in the tower on hill 55 plinking with the 50 cal. read major lands book many years later and i found who it was..
carlos was a very humble man not the braggart type, seems other people were more concerned with his count than he was.. good man wished i could have bumped into him....
 
Ever see the Myth Busters episode where they tried to duplicate the 'bullet through the scope' thing? It didn't work even at point blank range. He was a pretty amazing guy however.
 
The "Myth Busters" didn't always get things right and that led them to a few wrong conclusions. In the case of the through-the-scope shot: Bullet behavior at high velocity (they test fired at 100 yds) when striking brittle targets is not the same as bullet behavior at longer ranges and lower velocities. They used civilian, soft-point hunting ammo. Military ammo is FMJ.
 
I met a real Navy Seal that had a medical discharge. For a nasty leg wound. He told me it was nothing to brag about. He was just doing his job like everyone else.

Was able to talk with a man that was awarded the Medal Of Honor.Told us all he was no hero no brave man. Just a 17 year old Marine. Trying to save his buddies and stay alive.Nothing more.

As my dad told me. Real men have no reason to brag.
 
They didn't use the Russian PE or PU scope for their test. They instead used a couple off the shelf civilian models that may or may not have been equivalent. All scopes are not the same.
 
In 1989 I was at the nationals at Camp Perry in Ohio. He was there the last week of small bore and I was there the next two weeks of Hi-Power. Just missed him. He and his teams thought it would be neat to mount a scope on a 50 cal. What fun. I knew a guy who was in nam when things were just warming up. He was a photographer. He worked with a 4X5 Graphlex camera. You want to see pictures of somebody that got hit by a 50cal.
 
JF in MI, it turns out that mythbusters did verify the through the lens shot. The first test was done using modern lenses which may have up to seven lenses. The scope the Vietnamese sniper was using had only three. Mythbusters redid their test and confirmed that Gunny Hathcock did indeed make that shot.
 

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