I just finished reading "Marine Sniper", about the life and service of Mr. Hathcock. Wow! Shooting ability, patience, and bravado I will never posses! My hats off to all former and current snipers in any service.

Steady Squeeze!

Gunnery Sergeant Carlos (White Feather) Hathcock was a unique individual. The USMC later re-calculated how they counted confirmed kills and had that procedure been applied to Carlos he would have had many, many more confirmed kills. He passed too soon, more's the pity.

Semper Fi Brother

Great book about a interesting fellow. It should be required reading.

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Great book about a interesting fellow. It should be required reading.

+1 another good book but it is fiction is isniper

Yeah he was from Arkansas.

Charles Benjamin "Chuck" Mawhinney (1949- )is an Oregon-born American who served in the United States Marine Corps as a sniper during the Vietnam War. His skill as a sniper resulted in a record number of confirmed kills for USMC snipers, exceeding that of legendary Marine sniper, Carlos Hathcock. Mawhinney actually had 103 confirmed kills to Hathcock's 93. Mawhinney had another 216 that are listed as "probables" by the U.S. Marine Corps.

Eric,

Re-read my post. Chuck had the benefit of the "new" calculation formula for confirmed kills. It was not retroactive to Carlos. Chuck is also a great sniper, without doubt, but he wasn't shooting under the restrictions applied to Carlos.

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Charles Benjamin "Chuck" Mawhinney

I watched a documentary about him. He took an M-14 out one night instead of his trusty Remington, and hit 19 targets in about 30 seconds. They were coming across a river. There was minimal light. He had a starlight scope. He had less than 2 seconds each to acquire the heads of the targets and fire. Made believers out of 19 of 'em. Love it! The best Commie is a dead one...

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Originally posted by homebrewer:

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Charles Benjamin "Chuck" Mawhinney

I watched a documentary about him. He took an M-14 out one night instead of his trusty Remington, and hit 19 targets in about 30 seconds. They were coming across a river. There was minimal light. He had a starlight scope. He had less than 2 seconds each to acquire the heads of the targets and fire. Made believers out of 19 of 'em. Love it! The best Commie is a dead one...

i saw that same documentery.... i was just talking to my good friend and barber here in town about hathcock... quite a co incidence to get on here and see this post.... i had read before that a weaver scope was used by hathcock but the wiki said it was a leupold on a rem mod 70 .308 cal.... both were great AMERICAS and snipers..... i liked the part of the story about mawhinny that said 19 bodies floated down that river that night........ you are right brewer the only good commie is a dead one.... same for socialists...........................

I think a win 70 in '06 was his weapon of choice.

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Originally posted by eurocentric:
I think a win 70 in '06 was his weapon of choice.

model 70 30.06 with a unertl scope to be exact till they cycled the model 700 in not sure on the scope in that time frame.

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Originally posted by rick boggs:

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Originally posted by eurocentric:
I think a win 70 in '06 was his weapon of choice.

model 70 30.06 with a unertl scope to be exact till they cycled the model 700 in not sure on the scope in that time frame.

M700 sniper rifles (basicall the M700V with a parkerized finish and plain stock) the Marines used used on his second tour had Redfield AcuRange 3x9s on them.

Not taking anything away from Hathcock or Mawhinney but the most successful US sniper (listed kills and probables) in Viet Nam was SFC Adelbert F. Waldron, III, US Army. He used a suppressed M21 with a Starlight scope and most of his kills were at night, many at 400-700 meters. He was known as "The Quiet one". and was rotated out of country after 9 months. He earned two Distinguished Service Crosses during that time.

All three were very brave men.

Larry Gibson

snipers are a bread of there own!! Thank God we have them

I loved the story of how Hathcock put a scope on a Ma Deuce

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Originally posted by COOL:
I loved the story of how Hathcock put a scope on a Ma Deuce

i liked the apache story .

If the "apache" story is all true, that bullet was deserved. And no, I am not an insensitive human being...........

In Sniper on Sniper stories the shot through the
scope into the eye of the protagonist has become
de rigeur.

Check out his re-creation of Hathcock's 'Apache'
shot albeit from 30 yards instead of 300 yards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ifSY&feature=related



Wimbledon Cup winner - United States Marine Corps Sniper Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Norman Hathcock II "Long Tra'ng du K'ich" Interviewed by Maj. John Plaster.

Carlos Hathcock Interview - Part 1 of 3


Carlos Hathcock Interview - Part 2 of 3


Carlos Hathcock Interview - Part 3 of 3