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NYPD New Year's Rifle
- Thread starter Buck Wilde
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I am looking for a field of assholes so that my appearance blends in. My natural camoflauge.
Damn it, now I reminded myself of this line -
"Say something nice."
"You got a face like a hatful of assholes."
(bonus points for naming the actor and the movie.)
I don’t know that one…
This one is a favorite of mine, from the movie Gleaming the Cube:
“If I had a dog with a face like yours, I’d shave his ass and teach him to walk backwards.”
Just what the fuck did you do in "marketing"? Never mind, you would have to kill me after you told me. Please don't shot my cat either!
That was before I became Barney Fife!
I had to shoot a TRG. They would only let me have one bullet!
Sirhr
Dissecting some of the Hathcock stories makes people more uncomfortable. The rifle whose scope he shot through conveniently disappeared from the armory. There are other stories he told that are almost or entirely unsupported by evidence.
1. There appears to be no evidence the "Apache Woman" ever existed.
2. It seems he grossly exaggerated the $10,000-30,000 bounty on himself, if one even existed apart from a standard $8 bounty for all US snipers.
3. Also no evidence for the Elephant Valley multi-day battle he talks about.
4. As far as I've seen there's zero evidence of his mission to assassinate that PAVN general either
- We don't know when it happened, not even a year.
- We don't know where it happened
- We don't know the general's name or identity
- Literally no one is able to corroborate the account because the only person he told at the time was Burke who died in 1967
- No archival records of it from the US military
- There is seemingly no contemporary mention of it prior to the biographies written about him in the 1980s
I went back to re-read Marine Sniper this past year and had to stop after a few chapters. It reads like a historical fanfiction and I just never noticed when I read it as a kid.
Is there nothing between $12k and a savage/tasco? Why are we pretending that RPR or Tikka TAC or a $3k Horizon custom with a .5 MOA guarantee doesn't exist? The most expensive of those is 75% less expensive than what they have.
Haha! Thanks! I at least know that me and my budget rifle with NF atacr 5-25 could outshoot probably 90% of the police snipers in the country.
I can’t speak about police snipers much but the only one I’ve known is renowned in his department for a 150 yard headshot on a guy that was armed and fixing to ambush the deputies that were coming to arrest him. I’m sure the 150 yards was difficult… or not since at least 5 guys in this thread could make the same shot. I’ve trained with/around a lot of LEO. Some of them are actually good, but some are just pathetic with any sort of firearm. Having a badge and title doesn’t make one a good shooter. Also, believe it or not, having free ammo doesn’t make an officer want to go out and shoot. Now to be fair, they have a busy schedule running patrol, serving papers, stopping by the local Dunkin’ Donuts, and arresting confused old army veterans, so maybe it’s hard to find time to shoot all that free ammo
One of my local PDs uses Remington PSSes still. They were looking at AR10s but didn’t go for it. The HK one was the nicest of the bunch. OT is sucking up all the money.
How about beating up Jesse The Body in front of 100+ seals that never happened? I’ve said it before, I liked Kyle, I don’t like Ventura. I believe Ventura; not Kyle. I mean, most of his tales can’t be confirmed or denied and aren’t demonstrably false with dozens of witnesses like that one.
He was the real deal and a compulsive fabulist/liar.
One of my very familiar acquaintances (I won’t call him a friend because I don’t trust him) has a Silver Star and two bronze for valor he got in both Iraq and Afg. Dude is a kleptomaniac. Steals everything that isn’t nailed down like it’s nothing. He used to go on leave, steal a car in VA Beach, drive to Boston, ditch the car, spend time with his family, steal a car there, drive back to VA Beach, ditch that car, and go back on duty. You couldn’t walk into a retail store with him because he’s stuffing his pockets. This is not to even mention the stuff he stole from Uncle Stupid. It was insane.
Is he heroic? Yes. Is he fucked up in the head? Undoubtedly, but he’s very intelligent and managed to make retirement without getting caught. Nobody had that on their bingo card. I have to believe it will catch up to him someday, but so far he has gotten away with everything, and saved a bunch of his buddies lives for sure.
All fall short in one way or another.
In other words a really small target. Can’t hit a freaking chihuahua with a 1.5 moa rifle!
Sirhr
I may have mandela effected myself. I could have sworn it was Emilio Estevez in "Young Guns" or one of the sequels and now I cannot remember so well and I cannot find it online.
In "Young Guns (I can't remember if 1, 2, or 3) he said "You've got a face like a hatful of assholes."
I have done something similar. A co-worker taught me the phrase, Tu Madre mama Berga por gratis.
So, I asked a mexican guy which is the worse insult. Mama or por gratis. He said por gratis.
And so I earned my call sign, Senor Pendejo.
Sounds about right with the trigger pull. Was in the NYPD for 20 years. 15 years in the 46 pct in the Bronx. We were one square mile and we had like 95 Homicides. To go along with 2500 Robberies. After 9/11 was selected to the Joint Terrorist Task Force. 5 years there then pulled the plug. Had an awesome career. Before I rudely rambled on, they changed our Glock 19 triggers to some ungodly trigger pulls. I heard between 11-15 lbs.Okay the inside scoop is, Sako got the contract because they were the only one who could meet the 12 pound trigger pull requirement.
From what I gather they're doing away with it, or at least making it lighter. But only for people coming through the academy. People already there are stuck with it.
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