The best rifle men
02-09-2007, 06:52 PM
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Typical Buck
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The best rifle men
I was thinking, I bet if 100 of best big game rifle men where to go to war and they where given a certain target to go after they would get it done alot faster than a highly trained sniper. A person who has a lot of years of long range shooting big game in tough conditions would know what to do in difficult situations because they have had to take shots under pressure very quickly somtimes at unbelievable yards in horrible weather conditions. If our country was ever under attack they would have another thing coming with all the hunters picking them off.
02-09-2007, 07:07 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: The best rifle men
There is a lot of truth to what you say. I've read at different times about riflemen in each of America's wars here and overseas that some of the best riflemen were those who'd grown up around firearms, hunting on farms, ranchs, small towns.
I saw that in my time in the Army that those who knew firearms and had hunted squirrels, deer, etc. from a young age were general those shooting in the top of the companies. Certainly there's more training for situations Soldiers,Marines and Special Forceswill encounter that prepare for conflicts with those shooting back that's different than hunting animals, too.
I saw that in my time in the Army that those who knew firearms and had hunted squirrels, deer, etc. from a young age were general those shooting in the top of the companies. Certainly there's more training for situations Soldiers,Marines and Special Forceswill encounter that prepare for conflicts with those shooting back that's different than hunting animals, too.
02-09-2007, 07:59 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: The best rifle men
I doubt that any hunter that hasn't been trained as a sniper could stay on the same page with a well trained sniper. Sniper's in war are going after game that shoot's back and, quite often the target is not alone so his buddies shoot back as well. Good sniper's are not born, they are trained!
In hunting only the hunter has a gun, in war, everybody does!
In hunting only the hunter has a gun, in war, everybody does!
02-09-2007, 09:13 PM
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RE: The best rifle men
ORIGINAL: Don Fischer
I doubt that any hunter that hasn't been trained as a sniper could stay on the same page with a well trained sniper. Sniper's in war are going after game that shoot's back and, quite often the target is not alone so his buddies shoot back as well. Good sniper's are not born, they are trained!
In hunting only the hunter has a gun, in war, everybody does!
I doubt that any hunter that hasn't been trained as a sniper could stay on the same page with a well trained sniper. Sniper's in war are going after game that shoot's back and, quite often the target is not alone so his buddies shoot back as well. Good sniper's are not born, they are trained!
In hunting only the hunter has a gun, in war, everybody does!
02-09-2007, 09:47 PM
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RE: The best rifle men
Many good rifleman are neither good hunters or good snipers. A true good hunter just needs a change of targets to be a great sniper. Billy Dixon was maybe the best of both. At the battle of abobe wells he shot a medicine man off his horse at just under one mile with a 50 Caliber Sharps. This shot was not documented but during the same battle he shot another one off his horse at 1200 yards. This one was measured out after the battle. Here we are talking black powder No Scope. He was of course a buffalo hunter.
02-10-2007, 07:43 AM
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Typical Buck
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RE: The best rifle men
Billy Dixon made the shot of all shots, and there's no deny luck or not because the chief got killed right off his horse. Men like Billy Dixon and Sgt. York are men who change the odds in battle.
A true hunter vs a sniper would be a close match, but both in the same forest you wouldn't want to be the hunter with the sniper waiting on you to come to him. On the other hand you wouldn't want to be the sniper trying to run away from the hunter. There is a totally different training involed between the two. Both are adapt shooters but with totally different styles of getting there prey.
A true hunter vs a sniper would be a close match, but both in the same forest you wouldn't want to be the hunter with the sniper waiting on you to come to him. On the other hand you wouldn't want to be the sniper trying to run away from the hunter. There is a totally different training involed between the two. Both are adapt shooters but with totally different styles of getting there prey.