History Channel - Sniper

[1911 Junkie]

I thought it was pretty good. Heard some stories that I hadn't before.

[Pathfinder]

Sat and watched most of this last night. Very cool. And very well done. I was very impressed that the didn't pull any punches and presented the information like it was. Not translated into some PC version.

Especially when they were talking about "canoeing" - the effect that a sniper's round has if it hits a BG in the upper face - it creates a canoe of their skull.

Very good show. I especially liked Hathcock's retelling of his hunt against the NVA sniper sent to kill him - the Cobra.

[jaybet]

Good show. Saw most of it...then watched the show afterward about the M-16 and the new H&Ks....also really GOOD STUFF for a change. (I don't get the Out Door Channel)

[ericire12]

I saw part of it.... it was very well done!

[Jackel]

thought it was great.

Hathcock also has a auto biography out that i would highly recommend.

[Sponsor]

[PegLeg45]

I liked the whole show, but really got into the interview sections with Charles Mawhinney. Especially when he was asked if he had nightmares and he said yes, but not about the hits, about the misses. He said he had nightmares about others being killed by the one's he missed.

[ericire12]

I liked the whole show, but really got into the interview sections with Charles Mawhinney. Especially when he was asked if he had nightmares and he said yes, but not about the hits, about the misses. He said he had nightmares about others being killed by the one's he missed.

"A slight recoil"

[MikeBjerum]

Color me embarrassed    I pointed this show out last week, and then forgot all about it last night.  Got wrapped up in that damn Vikings game ... Damn I hate Favre, and in my disgust I wasn't even smart enough to check it out.  Remembered with about ten minutes left, and all I saw was the attempt at replicating the 1.5 mile shot.

Then to top it all off, I fell asleep about ten minutes into the show on the M-16    Woke up just before midnight and laid awake the rest of the night  

[alfsauve]

Watch the first hour (it's 2 hours long!) tonight.    I want to absorb some of what I saw.

TT watch the TV guide.   I'm sure they'll re-run it.   If anyone sees a re-run listing, please post for those who missed it.

I too was impressed that Mawhinney has nightmares over the one that got away.

[twyacht]

Picked up my son at the airport, only 10 minutes late out of Charlotte, rented Inglorious Basterds, since I like Quentin Tarantino films, that was pretty good before, Sniper at 9:00

We really liked it. Enjoyed having modern snipers re-create actual shootings. Listening to the ballistics of spin drift, wind, and the "mechanics" of shooting that far.

That MacMillian 50 is a bad a** rifle.  The Starlite optics used in Vietnam, truly "old school".

Thought it was well done. 16 hits in thirty seconds, on moving targets, at night, while getting shot at.

Highly recommend watching it, for those that missed it.