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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2009, 04:37:10 PM »
I believe he deliberatly shot the handle bar of the bicycle because he saw it was a kid.  When the kid picked up an AK and returned fire, Hathcock killed him..  Two shots at 1.42 MILES!!!!!!!

Two different shootings.

The long range shot was on a NVA officer as he was drinking from the river. The kid on the bicycle was closer. He fired warning shot into the front wheel hub, hoping the kid would drop the rifles he was carrying and run. When he didn't, Hathcock nailed him.
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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2009, 10:17:55 AM »
I worked on some M2s that had a scope mount machined into the rear sight assembly. If the sight broke we had to replace it with a regular one. About 99% of the M2s I ever saw were made at AC Spark Plug in Flint, MI a mile from my mom's house. The whole factory is gone now.
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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2009, 11:08:16 AM »
Two different shootings.

The long range shot was on a NVA officer as he was drinking from the river. The kid on the bicycle was closer. He fired warning shot into the front wheel hub, hoping the kid would drop the rifles he was carrying and run. When he didn't, Hathcock nailed him.


thanks for the clarification PegLeg!....It's been a few years since I read about the incident...

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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2009, 11:09:20 AM »
I worked on some M2s that had a scope mount machined into the rear sight assembly. If the sight broke we had to replace it with a regular one. About 99% of the M2s I ever saw were made at AC Spark Plug in Flint, MI a mile from my mom's house. The whole factory is gone now.


I understand FN is building them at their Maryland plant now.

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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2009, 11:22:01 AM »
If I'm not mistaken, there was some guy in Nevada a couple years back who took out his wife's divorce lawyer with a shot through a window at 200 to 400 yards or some such. He used a "conventional" rifle, not a .50 BMG.  Bill T.

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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #25 on: February 18, 2009, 11:33:04 AM »
Yes, it was in Reno.

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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2009, 01:27:44 PM »
If I'm not mistaken, there was some guy in Nevada a couple years back who took out his wife's divorce lawyer with a shot through a window at 200 to 400 yards or some such. He used a "conventional" rifle, not a .50 BMG.  Bill T.



Yes, it was in Reno.


Reminds me of a Johnny Cash song I heard once...........
"I expect perdition, I always have. I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that's susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I'm susceptible to diseases, and you can't shoot a damned disease." ~ Judge Roy Bean, Streets of Laredo

For the Patriots of this country, the Constitution is second only to the Bible for most. For those who love this country, but do not share my personal beliefs, it is their Bible. To them nothing comes before the Constitution of these United States of America. For this we are all labeled potential terrorists. ~ Dean Garrison

"When it comes to the enemy, just because they ain't pullin' a trigger, doesn't mean they ain't totin' ammo for those that are."~PegLeg

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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #27 on: February 18, 2009, 05:00:54 PM »
Reminds me of a Johnny Cash song I heard once...........

"When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry."


TAB lives near Folsom Prison, .....hm.....I wonder?      ;D


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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #28 on: February 18, 2009, 05:08:12 PM »
"When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry."


TAB lives near Folsom Prison, .....hm.....I wonder?      ;D




about 6 miles, to the front gate...   ;D
I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

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Re: Criminal use of .50 caliber Sniper Rifle
« Reply #29 on: February 18, 2009, 05:14:24 PM »

about 6 miles, to the front gate...   ;D

You guys finally get some rain out there?

 

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