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ORIGINAL: Staleek

5 kills with 3 bullets.

Sounds like bullshit. American Sniper was already a huge mound of steaming bullshit, we really don't need an English version of that crap to embarrass future generations of English people.

But it down to a squadie having one too many.

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Now for those who disbelieve the story, there is a international competition for military snipers. The SAS competitors are consistently top scorers.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Now for those who disbelieve the story, there is a international competition for military snipers. The SAS competitors are consistently top scorers.

Quite possibly. I don't care, though, because being good with guns and killing people just doesn't matter to me. I wouldn't even be interested in a news story about this, much less a film. Tedious.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Actually, with the statement that the sniper hit the explosive vests, I buy the story.

There is a credited statement from both sides that during the Stalingrad siege, a Russian sniper managed to get the perfect shot, three germans standing in a chow line, one shot punched through all three.

There is the Russian after action report, and the Wehrmacht report on the incident.

Now, as far as American Sniper goes, the movie was embelished a bit and I consider it more propaganda than actual fact, and I dare say there is a a lot of the story that is going unsaid.

As far as the SAS are concerned, having had the opportunity to train with them in the early 80's on the off chance of joint operations, those guys are some of the best marksmen on the planet. Where as physicicist come up with "thought experiments" I have seen SAS snipers come up with target experiments to cover just about any possible circumstance then spend days to solve the problem on how to make the shot.

An SAS sniper still holds the record for the longest shot resulting in a kill, although there is some debate when you talk to a few Navy SEALS.

So, yes, speaking as an ex army sniper, I believe the story, having witnessed some of the shots these guys set up for "fun."

Now for those who disbelieve the story, there is a international competition for military snipers. The SAS competitors are consistently top scorers.

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ORIGINAL: Staleek

5 kills with 3 bullets.

Sounds like bullshit. American Sniper was already a huge mound of steaming bullshit, we really don't need an English version of that crap to embarrass future generations of English people.

But it down to a squadie having one too many.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

No idea why would you feel embarrass at your soldiers risking their own lives, saving the lives of innocents over there from suicide bombers.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Staleek. I have a better one for you to check out. Google 'The Port Arthur Massacre'...............35 dead and a couple of dozen wounded. John Howard (our then Prime Minister) used this incident as his lever to bring in our stringent gun laws. He would never have got them passed otherwise.
When you have looked this up, consider some very strange 'facts'........the guy was mentally retarded, using a weapon he had never used before (an SKS) and yet it is reckoned he was scoring one for one with every shot !!!! To misquote Shakespeare......."something in the State of Tasmania was decidedly rotten''

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Actually, with the statement that the sniper hit the explosive vests, I buy the story.

There is a credited statement from both sides that during the Stalingrad siege, a Russian sniper managed to get the perfect shot, three germans standing in a chow line, one shot punched through all three.