Lol' Chris Costa is in that picture!
Oh you mean the guy with the water balloon launcher. Didn't he do a Magpul DVD on slingshots?
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Lol' Chris Costa is in that picture!
@ Nishgriff - if you had to estimate - what percentage of fighting aged males are actively fighting on a daily basis for the FSA? What percentage for fighting age females? Do you see a significant level of both men and women (of all age groups) that have never and do not intend to ever take up arms in support of the FSA?
TIA
Just noticed the ear pro on the barefoot fella in the back row. Only visible ear pro in the pic. Maybe we ought to be sending them muffs and plugs.
Another sniper illustrating the common 'unslung bicycle seated' position'. He also gets points for the fitness regimen. My friend Hamid Khatib shot this. Hamid risks his life every day shooting for reuters. You might see his work and the work of his wife Nour Kelze in Time, Newsweek, and New York Times. They are both from Aleppo.
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Sorry for the lecture, but knowing some of these .........
Why don't you lobby congress members to get some of these snipers trained to US mil standards by US mil trainers/contractors. Also looks like somebody is ripping them off by making useless scope mounts and Chinese scopes.
Surely they can get DSarms etc to make a large number of FAL scope mounts and leupold can make supply some Mark 2 series scopes and rings. A few million spent could be a game changer there.
Then they will be thankful to the West and will be nice to us when they win.
Oh great. Jihadis with semi-auto .50 caliber sniper rifles that aren't even for sale to civilians.
Do these idiot politicians sending them this stuff not understand that we will be getting shot at by these weapons sooner than later? It isn't like the guns are going to evaporate once (if) peace returns to Syria. And they sure as hell aren't going to remain in Syria forever either.
For those who call these guys jihadis, these guys are not. The guys with the rifles above are Tawhid (Unity) brigade. .
Holy shit, how did you know it was a T-62?!?!? I was sure no one would get it!Looks like maybe a Mauser action? Barreled in 7.62x51mm... Interesting Reticle may be a Leupold version with the T-62 reticle.
BAM!
I guess I just like Optics What Camera do you use? What about editing software? I looked at your site you have some nice pictures.
Thank you. My new work isn't up there yet, I'll post links when it's published. Til then I can't post anymore pics. I use 5dMkIII's with a set of L-Primes. I process mostly in ACR, with a little retouching in photoshop if I need to push/pull dodge/burn.
EDIT:
Also, here's a link to a story I wrote about Aleppo last year. Now that Islamic Front, SRF, FSA, Nusra, etc have kicked ISIS out of most of northern Syria it's possible to go back in, but I decided not to go back to Aleppo because of the intense barrel-bombing campaign. A canadian friend of mine was killed by one about a month ago, the Assad regime is razing the city with oil drums filled with TNT and scrap metal.
Aleppo Struggles On
Hey, I have not been on this forum for a while, been…. busy… with some other things… I have a couple questions.
1. What's the difference between if a round 'cracks' as it goes by you or if it 'whizzes' or 'hisses'? Let's just say that due to a dumb mistake on my part I got to hear a lot of both of these sounds a few days ago. I was probably 600-800 meters from the shooters.
2. Can anyone ID this rifle? It has a Leupold scope. Chambered in 7.62. They just shoot ball ammo, no access to match rounds. This guy knew how to zero the rifle, and kept it zeroed at 300m, and held over/under for distance changes. They depended on spotters to adjust.
3. How the hell do you take a good picture through a scope? I can't seem to get it right. Bonus points if you recognize this reticle, which was my best effort.
It means they're way too goddamn close to occupying the same space as your body. People commonly think that a bullet "just missed them!" when they hear the whine of any projectile impacting or flying by within 100-200 yards or so. When you're hearing the crack of the bullet and it's painfully loud, that's a different story. Others here can probably give a better estimate of how many feet away you have to be to hear that distinct noise.
It's definitely a Mauser of some kind, but I don't recognize where it's from. The receiver is visibly marked 7.62x51 - doesn't look like an Israeli marking though. The stock looks suspiciously like an original 98k stock that was significantly recut into a more sporting configuration. The muzzle brake and sights are the sort of thing I'd expect from a post-WWII sporterization project.
Anyone with a better guess than me? It looks almost like someone did a semi-nice sporterization job on a 98k many years ago in the US, and then that rifle somehow migrated over to Syria. I wouldn't expect a local gunsmith in Syria to produce something like that in either style or quality. The fact that the shooter knows how to use it at least semi-effectively makes me wonder if he didn't bring it with him from somewhere else out of the area when he came to fight.
'eye relief'
Looks like he is about you "relieve" his eye ball from his head LMAO.
It is a rubber eye cup.
Looks like he is about you "relieve" his eye ball from his head LMAO.