Fieldcraft How Many SH Members are/were Snipers

[Hi Speed]

Out of curiosity I wonder how many of us are/were snipers?
Could we do a Poll?

 

[Lowlight]

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3, oh wait, maybe 4...

Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.

 

[Hi Speed]

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Lowlight, of all people to respond. O.K.. that makes for 2. Where are the others.

The pic of you and chuck is beltfed baby.

 

[Shooterken]

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Does sniping a ham sammich count?

OK OK so I'm a post whore I'll go away now!

 

[OklabyGodhoma]

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Close your eyes......what do you see? That is how you tell how many were/are true snipers.

 

[JDUBB420]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3, oh wait, maybe 4...

Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.

</div></div>

Cmon Frank you forgot Battlefield 3 that number should triple lol

 

[Intrepid4576]

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wow out of 60+k members i expected at least 10....lol

 

[Milhouse86]

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+1 count me in for one more.


I love going snipe hunting!

 

[Force_Multiplier]

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I was a petroleum laboratory specialist

 

[Nachtadler]

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I'm really good at math. Does that mean I count as a sniper?

 

[camocorvette]

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I was a Fire Direction Specialist for 155's? So am I kinda snipery? I mean we put steel on steel at 14,000 Meters...

Oh and I went to a 2 week Long Range Marksman course That was a MTT from Bragg and they were Snipers?

I was responsible for a M24 for 2 years as a SDM in our battery ( C 1-37FA ) I shot 1118 meters with it once...

I brought it to Iraq in 09 and It stayed in the connex for 12 months except when a Master Gunner thought he was going to shoot the dudes mortaring the base... ( it wasn't even zeroed and he only had 7.62 ball lol)

But alas I am not a sniper....

I think most of the real Snipers, weather it be LEO, or Military are pretty humble in the fact that, that is their job, and it is just as such a "job". All of the B4's I knew in 1-14CAV and 1-23INF didn't brag or boast.

I would guesstimate that of the 64,902 members maybe 500 were or are Snipers. There could be more or there could be less...

But I don't think it would be smart for the current snipers in service to say "hey I'm a sniper" you don't do that in combat so why would you do it on the internet were and one with some computer smarts can track your IP and get your address, name, what ever...

But I DO have like 1600 sniper kills on BF3 so... You decide...

 

[Seth8541]

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I'll play. I'm good for a +1.

 

[sandwarrior]

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NOT me, ...but I did work with them at our BN.

 

[Kevlars]

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I snipe EBay auctions ... does that count ???

LOL

 

[csi:cyberspace]

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Nope, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express once.....

 

[_RJ_]

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8541, 0317, B4 (Bravo4) in their username would be a good indication.

 

[Seth8541]

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Let's not make this more than it is. Being a Sniper isn't any "Super Secret Squirrel" setup. It's a specialized job in our military. Proud? Absolutely. Better than anyone else? Nope, everyone has there place and there purpose. It's a combined effort and doesn't depend on any one job or skill set. Just a job............best job in there is!!! LOL.

 

[Beef Curtain]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DFOOSKING</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You bitches all brag about about Call of Duty and Battlefield 3 like that's sniping...I fought sniper battles on N64 you couldn't fuckin' imagine.


Amateurs.... </div></div>

For sure! I'm old school SOCOM on PS2 Quick Scoping Super Sniper!

 

[arkansashntr]

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I shot a deer once. Wounded it and had to beat it with a shovel..... It took about an hour. Does that make me a sniper?

 

[THE MGD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: arkansashntr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I shot a deer once. Wounded it and had to beat it with a shovel..... It took about an hour. Does that make me a sniper? </div></div>

Hmm, you did conserve ammo and eventually made a '1 shot' kill. Id say youre halfway there.

Your also f***ing hilarious

 

[glocksig40]

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I was awarded expert marksman ribbon at Air Force basic training using the M-16 .22 conversion, shooting at a simulated 500m target. For sure put me down on the list.

 

[opeagle]

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N64, PS2, shit. I sacked them with a PS1 before anyone knew it was a 1.

 

[stefan73]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: opeagle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">N64, PS2, shit. I sacked them with a PS1 before anyone knew it was a 1. </div></div>

All you newbs need to quit your jawjacking!

I was sniping people with rocks while you were just an itch in your daddy's pants, and that newfangled Atari and Nintendo64 well, you can keep that.

 

[rogue308]

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I know of about a dozen on the site including myself. I'm sure there is more though.

 

[Casey Simpson]

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I was a 19D10mos and I've shot up a lot of shit. Can I be a sniper too?

Huh? Can I can I can I?

Okay I also shot the piss out of an old M113 with belt of 7.62 in an M-60 at I think it was Fr. McCelland or Ft. Knox. Will that do?

 

[kengel2]

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I an extra thingy that said how many times I shot expert, does that count? Got the last one using an acog so it felt like cheating though.

 

[rusty815]

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I'm not a sniper, but I'm a counter sniper, but theres a government overrun on us lately

 

[allghilliedup04]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seth8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Let's not make this more than it is. Being a Sniper isn't any "Super Secret Squirrel" setup. It's a specialized job in our military. Proud? Absolutely. Better than anyone else? Nope, everyone has there place and there purpose. It's a combined effort and doesn't depend on any one job or skill set. Just a job............best job in there is!!! LOL. </div></div>

hey seth saw it says you were a 3rd marines instructor what years? thats where i work now and were i was/am stationed and where i went to sniper school.

 

[Twisted .308]

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I've gone Snipe hunting !! never got any ...but that still counts don't it !!!

 

[Seth8541]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: allghilliedup04</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seth8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Let's not make this more than it is. Being a Sniper isn't any "Super Secret Squirrel" setup. It's a specialized job in our military. Proud? Absolutely. Better than anyone else? Nope, everyone has there place and there purpose. It's a combined effort and doesn't depend on any one job or skill set. Just a job............best job in there is!!! LOL. </div></div>

hey seth saw it says you were a 3rd marines instructor what years? thats where i work now and were i was/am stationed and where i went to sniper school. </div></div>

I was with 2/3 Snipers from 1999-May 2002 and was a Instructor at 3rd Mar Div School from around May of 2002-Dec 2005 when I EAS'd. Did a.TAD deployment with 3/3 Snipers as the Cheif Scout/1st Team Leader to Afghanistan. Semper Fi Brother!

 

[VJJPunisher]

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I can hit .5 MOA groups into my fleshlight from across the room, i consider myself the Ultimate sniper

 

[longrange4u]

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I was one...

 

[5RWill]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VJJPunisher</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can hit .5 MOA groups into my fleshlight from across the room, i consider myself the Ultimate sniper</div></div>

LMAO

 

[allghilliedup04]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seth8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: allghilliedup04</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seth8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Let's not make this more than it is. Being a Sniper isn't any "Super Secret Squirrel" setup. It's a specialized job in our military. Proud? Absolutely. Better than anyone else? Nope, everyone has there place and there purpose. It's a combined effort and doesn't depend on any one job or skill set. Just a job............best job in there is!!! LOL. </div></div>

hey seth saw it says you were a 3rd marines instructor what years? thats where i work now and were i was/am stationed and where i went to sniper school. </div></div>

I was with 2/3 Snipers from 1999-May 2002 and was a Instructor at 3rd Mar Div School from around May of 2002-Dec 2005 when I EAS'd. Did a.TAD deployment with 3/3 Snipers as the Cheif Scout/1st Team Leader to Afghanistan. Semper Fi Brother! </div></div>

i was with 2/3 also! i work for the school house now as training NCO. Its part of SOI now so its different but the same. if you dont mind me asking or maybe PM me, whats your name? just wondering if i have heard of you or i can check for you on our classroom wall or something... thats crazy

 

[Alpine 338]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: stacyp</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was awarded expert marksman ribbon at Air Force basic training using the M-16 .22 conversion, shooting at a simulated 500m target. For sure put me down on the list. </div></div>

The one I had to qualify with in Basic was a Jam-o-matic, from what I remember, that POS conversion wouldn't let me fire more then two rounds before I had a failure. Then you weren't allowed to clear it yourself, you had to raise your hand and have the RO come over and clear it for you.

 

[Hi Speed]

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Vjj gets my vote for sniper of the decade award.

 

[rcdinaz]

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I shot 3 this year!

I was vewy vewy quiet since it was wabbit season, I mean duck season!

 

[Casey Simpson]

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Awesome, dude. Reluctantly, I must admit something bad has happened. I can't do that anymore. Must be something in the air because my being 49 couldn't be the matter.

 

[GasLight]

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seems to me a real 'sniper' would use a shotgun:

 

[TOP PREDATOR]

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what, no mention of OPSEC yet?

 

[Hink]

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For instructional purposes only;

OPSEC.

Carry on.

 

[pyplynr]

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Used to tear this up when I was younger

 

[trigger29]

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I guess I am one......... I shot a snipe..... With a shotgun. Other than that, not so much.

 

[kraigWY]

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OK I have a real "sniper story" a real "war story"

Back in the 70s I was heavy into duck and goose hunting on the Palmer Hay Fats near Anchorage.

There were a lot of "snipe" there, I mean a lot, I figured why not, I'll get a few, using my Remington 870 I got a pot full. I got them home and my wife was going to fix them up for freezing. If you ever ate "snipe", they are like dove, you just pop the breat out with your thumbs, that's all there is to eat on those little suckers and it takes quite a few to make a meal.

Anyway I had them setting on the cabinet with a lid on the pot to keep wife's cats out.

So the wife gets all ready to fix the and removes the lid. One of the little suckes popped his head up "chirp, chirp"............aparently he wasn't quite "sniped" all the way.

Wife lets out a scream, and I sleep on the couch that night.

Sniping is a very dangerous business.

 

[Guest]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VJJPunisher</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can hit .5 MOA groups into my fleshlight from across the room, i consider myself the Ultimate sniper</div></div>
Ha ha ha, priceless!

 

[allghilliedup04]

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ha nice, i guess that comes down to the classic "anything worth shooting once is shooting twice"

probably pretty truamatic being shut in a pot with a bunch of dead bodies laying there wounded yourself haha should have left him alive to tell his friends

 

[Chris@InterstateGuns]

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0352 snipe by wire?

 

[beenjammin]

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Ha!

I was waiting for this one to pop up.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pyplynr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Used to tear this up when I was younger

</div></div>

 

[EBM]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3, oh wait, maybe 4...

Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.

</div></div>

I'm a COD 4-5 sniper. hooah!

 

[EBM]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Copperdoc1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VJJPunisher</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can hit .5 MOA groups into my fleshlight from across the room, i consider myself the Ultimate sniper</div></div>
Ha ha ha, priceless! </div></div>

Wtf?! LMAO!