Hey Stallone. ... Rambo this.

[NM_Shooter]

http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-bitch.html

[John_C]

The article mentions Simo Hayha being wounded, but doesn't mention that he made a slow but full recovery. He died in 2002 at the age of 96.

The Finnish snipers in WWII were incredible.  The Finns lost 25,000 men and the Soviet's lost 1,000,000.  One Russian General was quoted as saying "We gained 22,000 square miles of territory. Just enough to bury our dead".

It is interesting to note that several of the most efficient Finnish snipers were women.


Here is a web site devoted to snipers and a page on snipers in history
    http://www.snipercountry.com/SnipHistory.asp

One of the most historically interesting was the "Shot not taken" by Patrick Ferguson the inventor of the Ferguson rifle.

Major, Ferguson found himself in position to make a shot on an unidentified Continental officer near Germantown Pennsylvania. When the man turned away at approximately 125 yards, the good major chose not to shoot him in the back. That man turned out to be none other than General George Washington. Had Ferguson taken the shot one can assume that the entire history of what is today the United States would have been affected. Recall it was Washington who turned down the offer to be King of the Colonies after the successful resolution of the War for Independence. Had he not been in charge of the Colonial forces, not only would the outcome of the war have been in question, but so would the very nature of the Republic which rose from that conflict.

[MountainDon]

I'd read about Hayha someplace a few years back. Talk about an Army of One.   




and in that other link... the book Killing Pablo was a good read.

[Windpower]

this was a link at the bottom of the above link

sorry in advance for th thread drift ......


http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal.html