Impossible Shots: The old sniper

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Saw this tonight and just went.. "wow."

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"World War II sniper veteran, Ted Gundy, was a sniper during the Battle of the Bulge, now 67 years later he tries an impossible shot of his own. Ted hasn't seen his Army issued Springfield 1903A4 since 1944, but he's in for a surprise and then he'll try a shot he's never fathomed...1,000 yards with a modern sniper rifle, AMU's custom Remington 700. Watch this amazing story now!"
 
Thanks for sharing... Pretty amazing what troops went through back during that time. The weather conditions looked brutal, not to mention they were at war... WOW...
 
It is true about old soldiers, they never die, still knows what to do with a rifle.
 
I've seen that before...always worth watching again! It warms my heart to watch him shoot like that.
 
I talked with Val Forgett at 2012 SHOT. He was present during some of the making of this show (his company--Navy Arms--donated the Springfield '06 that was presented to Gundy during the show). He and Scoutten were watching while Gundy was shooting and when the 3 shots turned out to be a 4-5" group at 1000 yards, Forgett said that Scoutten turned to him and said: "Well, I guess we have a show."

I've watched this particular Impossible Shots episode several times--it's one of my favorites.
 
Just shows, good military shooters like him never forget how to squeeze them off.

And never learned how to flinch in the first place!

That guy is still harder then Woodpecker lips!!

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Say what you sill but am I the only person who actually teared up a little.


I could feel the fighter in him and understood his emotions.

Crazy good video.
 
Shienhausser,

No, at the end I had to wipe my eyes too, as he walked down that sidewalk.

There are very few men left of that generation, which shaped our world. All of the ones in my family have passed on. (I had a grandfather who fought in that same forest during that same winter...and another who fought on the other side of the world on Okinawa).

They did their jobs, they came home, they raised families and went about life.

But man.. what they accomplished. It's something.
 
...am I the only person who actually teared up a little.
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Seeing how respectfully Gundy was treated by the soldiers was pretty moving.

Maybe not everyone understand the sacrifices he made, but they clearly did.
 
awesome

(except for the "5 inch group at 1000 yards ... impossible" comment at the end)
 
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My grandfather was in the battle of the bulge as a combat medic. Understandably, he never talked about it much before he passed, but seeing the other men from that time and hearing little bits of their stories is as close as I'll get to knowing his stories.
 
My monitor went all blurry when they presented him with that Springfield.

Great story. Thanks, Trent!
 
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My grandfather was in the battle of the bulge as a combat medic. Understandably, he never talked about it much before he passed, but seeing the other men from that time and hearing little bits of their stories is as close as I'll get to knowing his stories.
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My heartfelt thanks goes out to your grandfather. That was possibly one of the most decisive battles of the 20th Century. My Grandfather didn't fight in the war but he did engineer destroyer turbines at GE for our boys out in the Pacific. He studied the war religiously and made sure to pass that knowledge on to his grandchildren. Lord only knows where we would be without the brave and smart men of that generation both at home and abroad.
 
Great post and video. What a great thing to do to honor that guy after all this time. I think what it must have been like to be on the wrong end of his Springfield back in the war and it makes me appreciate even more what being in battle is really like. You have sharp shooters like him shooting at you. Scary, scary stuff right there. I'm glad this guy was on the good guys side.

I've met more than a few great soldiers and sailors from that war. I was in a hospital room with a guy who fought in every major naval battle of the Pacific. I felt honored just to get to talk to the guy. He liked talking about it too but unfortunately it didn't last long enough.

I knew 2 WWII snipers too. Both of them could shoot incredibly well. One taught my brother a great deal about shooting and my brother passed on a lot of that to me. I think a lot of what I know now really came through that pipeline. The guy was a wealth of information and he loved practicing his craft too. I've seen him make just incredible shots. I've never seen anyone match what he could do. He used to say if you can see it, you can shoot it. For him that was pretty much true. I've seen him shoot hawks at 1000 yards. He'd be driving down the road and spot one in the top of a tree and he'd stop and get out his rifle and shoot off the top of his car. I never saw what he was shooting at until it fell out of the tree. And yes I know it's not nice to shoot hawks but it was a different time when people considered hawks to be competition for rabbits (which had been hunted out by men but people blamed hawks for it). I think he would have been happy shooting p'dogs if we had them in our area but we didn't. But every other type of varmint around was in danger if that sniper could see them. He was truly amazing and a darn good guy on top of that. He took my brother fishing to Lake Erie for years before the whole lake was basically poisoned. But we ate a massive amount of white perch (I think it was) and their eggs. My brother would bring back coolers packed full of the stuff. It was great eating too but I wonder if some of my health issues might be traced back to the stuff that came from that lake. :)
 
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