7mm-08 is IMO one of the most underrated calibers out there when it comes to long range. Its definitely not underrated when it comes to hunting, all one has to do is look at the sales its a very popular hunting caliber. But once again IMO it has unrealized potential for longer stuff. 162gr AMAX at ~2700 or so is a potent load. May not quite measure up to a .260 but it comes close. With the larger bore you should be able to get away with a bit shorter barrel than the .260 as well.
LRRP, if you dont mind me asking, Id like to hear some more details on the commie scout. Was he by himself? What range was the shot? Did the commies not really care about their scout getting killed? Seems like that wouldve set off some wider geopolitical consequences than a single firefight.
Thank you sir.
Not trying to derail, but no, he wasn't alone. He was part of a 2-man NorK SF scout swimmer team that we suspect had infil'd using the Imjin River, which was very common for them. Cross-border special reconnaissance and agent infiltration has been a constant thing over there, and there were incidents happening frequently on the DMZ, as well as on the East Coast of the Korean Peninsula. They were playing big boy games, and one of them caught a 5.56 to the head...rules of the road. No hurt feelings when you're in your enemy's backyard and you get dirt-napped.
His buddy swam deep and escaped, was never seen or captured. They had a duck bag with them (waterproof duffel) filled with Chicom copies of the M16, demo, initiators, Chicom Type 54 Tokarev copies IIRC, and the KIA was wearing the tan Warsaw Pact wetsuit common to Soviet Naval Spetsnaz. All of this was photographed in sequence, and as they removed his wetsuit, it revealed a South Korean ROK Army Platoon Sergeant's uniform, with 3 badge and patch deficiencies as to placement.
He was in his mid-to-late 30's, and had a physique typical of the most physically-fit type of frogman, with very pronounced lats, large quads, basically a Korean Arnold. One of my Squad Leaders had caught 2 of them filling out an objective sketch just outside the chain link fence surrounding Camp Greaves on our Southeast side, right where this picture was taken:
If you look closely in the picture, you can see the fence and triple-strand concertina on it. I think the NorK SF had gotten accustomed to being able to conduct point target recce on our camp without much interference, and they got caught with their pants down, literally, when the ROK Army kid ran up on them and blasted them with his Daewoo K2. The funny thing is that hardly anyone in our Battalion even knew about this incident, but because I was in the Recon Platoon, we got a full brief on it during a foreign weapons class by some intel weenies from down south, who had all the photos.
There were times when both green and red tracers could be seen flying towards each other and all over tarnation when border skirmishes would happen, and the NorK's were trying to provoke us by rapidly turning on flashlights into their mortar tubes. Then there was the submarine incident in the winter of 1996-1997, which is another story entirely.
