Movie Theater Enemy at the Gates

[bornhunter04]

I'm sitting here watching enemy at the gates on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3rxY201DjU&feature=related

Just wondering what power scope is the german/russian using respectively. And what is the objective size of their scopes respectively.

 

[Johnny Sasaki]

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No idea, but thanks for the link. I love that movie, and have been trying to find it for a while.

 

[bornhunter04]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Johnny Sasaki</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No idea, but thanks for the link. I love that movie, and have been trying to find it for a while.

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Ya me too, i finally stumbled across a full working version of it, just have to ignore the captions in Russian.

 

[Niles Coyote]

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I am no authority on this topic but 3.5x comes to mind for the mosin, and I don’t think the mauser was much more than that.

"I am a stone"

love that movie

 

[crazybrit]

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Don't know about the scope, but great movie...right up to the end when they had the german walk out like he's going on a picnic!! Pretty sure that's not how it went down, but that's hollywood.

 

[bohem]

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The Russians were running a 4x, the Germans were usually a 6x Zeiss but not always.

The War of the Rats is a great book on this topic.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

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The book is also outstanding. Covers a lot more than just Zaitsev's work in Stalingrad. It goes into the entire battle, with the 'sniper war' as one of the threads.

The movie was fun. But the book really gave insight into how nasty things were there.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[jake6547]

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X2 great movie. Tip my hat to the real snipers in that situation.

 

[roggom]

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The book didnt have Rachel Weisz in it, lol, or did it, guess it could be anyone. One of my fav movies. Another good movie is the Fortress of War, this is a Russian movie made in 2010, about the Nazi invasion of Russia in 41. It is in Russian but can be found with subtitles http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343703/

 

[reclaimer1986]

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German snipers used a 4x or 6x scope, and also the ZF-41 1.5x scope. Russians were using a PE or PEM 4x, and later the PU 3.5x.

 

[Komok]

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It is Vasily Zajtsev rifle (in a museum of Stalingrad battle)
Sight PU Power 3,5
In the book of memoirs he wrote that the most distant shot of 400 meters . And it shot only 1 time on a distance of 400 meters.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001530588766&ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=297774856950198&set=a.297774510283566.70264.100001530588766&type=1&theater

And its photo Vasily Zajtsev.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001530588766&ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=297774920283525&set=a.297774510283566.70264.100001530588766&type=1&theater

 

[b0xcrash]

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No....they yanked it off of youtube

 

[crazybrit]

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Just finished the book. Great read. Any good info anywhere on the rest of his life?

 

[Komok]

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http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Зайцев,_Василий_Григорьевич

Rifle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpZUEUyQoA

 

[Drifter]

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CrazyBrit,

If you liked that book, check out "War of the rats".

Same place and time, good read.