Long Range Cal. ?????

[BILLY D.]

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I don't know which 'nam your friend was in but the one where I participated in the Southeast Asia War Games I never heard of such a Round.

The Sniper Rifles were Winchester, Remington and some were M-14's in 308.

The true specialists like GSGT Carlos Hathcock had some special rifles issued to them or they had them custom made, I don't know which. "The Man" was said to have used a 300 Win Mag specially prepared Model 70 Target rifle at one time. I can't say definitely whether it was prepared by Marine Armorers or not. When I worked as a member of an Insertion Team the only Rifles I seen were Remington and Winchester target Rifles.

Many Squad Snipers in the Army had scoped M-14's and were very efficient with them. Some of these were specially prepared by the AMU. Ranges were effectively judged by the sniper judging the distance to target and noting such things as which way grass was bending or which way cigarette smoke was drifting at the intended targets location.

I had an easy job. I was a door Gunner. I had a verrrrrrrry high respect for the Long Range Recon Patrol guys. Their job was to go out and collect intelligence and snipe, then hide and wait till we came back after them and extracted them and went back to base.

Bill