Lol...talked to a "Marine sniper"

[Ian]

Actually, I believe this guy was a Marine, just not a sniper. He claims to have been in Somalia and Desert Storm. But when he started talking guns, it got deep enough that I had to get out the hip waders.

Where to start? Well, he makes hits at 2.5 miles without trouble. How does he see targets that far away? Well, his scope has a spy satellite feed built in that lets him see the year stamped on a dime at 2.5 miles [yes, he specifically said the date on a dime]. Huh, that's neat. Who makes the scope? NASA. I see.

And he's selling the rifle [I guess they let him keep it]. What model is it? A Remington 750, in .50 BMG. Complete with tripod - it'll knock you over backwards if you shoot it offhand - and 30 whole rounds of ammo his rangemaster buddy snuck to him. Oh yeah, he's got all the good ammo - AP, tracer, exploding tip...you name it. Could he bring the rifle to the range so we could see it? Well, no - see, his Mom has it right now [the guy is in his 30s], and she can't ship it. Well, it could be shipped, but he'd have to ship the firing mechanism one day and everything else another day - those Post Office people might swipe it, you see - to the Reserve Guard Armory where he could pick it up.

Petty cool, huh? Yeah, I bet you guys hadn't ever heard of the .50 BMG Rem 750 with a NASA satellite scope...well that's because you weren't ever MARINE SNIPERS!

 

[Erich]

Good Lord . . .

 

[Number 6]

That's pretty funny. The only Marine sniper that I have ever met was a very polite reserved man, that new A LOT about shooting and was not full of BS. I have met other Marines that told a lot of tall tales. No different than the outlandish stuff I have heard in gunshops or in bars.

 

[carterbeauford]

that's worse than the time a coworker, claiming to be former military, said he could make shoot one-hole groups with an SKS standing at 500 yards.

I would have likely told the man to ****, out of the respect I have for real members of the military.

 

[torpid]

That guy is a blabbermouthed traitor.

That NASA built satellite link scope is still classified.

 

[limbaughfan]

but is he lying

 

[possum]

WOW!!!!!!!

I am no marine an no sniper, just a sgt, and an 11b,in the army, but i would never make such a claim. I can't speak for him but i would be willing to be that he is NOT a Marine, and probally wouldn't know a Marine if one stuck his spit shinned boot up his butt!

 

[ABTOMAT]

Reminds me of a thread on BF where a guy came into a gun shop and started off by asking for ".40 Secret Weapon" ammo.

 

[Steve in PA]

Snipers, real honest to goodness snipers, military or LEO are a quite bunch. They don't do alot of talking or bragging. When I was in Beirut in 1983 we had a sniper attached to us.

The guy in this post sounds like a Soldier of Fortune wannabe/reject.

 

[Taurus 66]

Ooh Ooh, is this BS story telling time from wannabe special forces people and whatsuch?? I got one for you.

There's this dude where I work who claims he was in the Green Beret back in '75 Vietnam. He was a sniper too, but he never could give me the manufacturer or model of his rifle. He could only tell me it was a 30 06.

One of his favorite stories was the one about charlie in the distance at 2 clicks after dusk. He would wait patiently for charlie to light a smoke and then he'd use the burning ember to zero in. I said to him, "How did you know that was the enemy and not a friendly?" His reply was, "I had a special GI 35 power scope with night vision capability." So I just had to ask, "There were night vision rifle scopes in '75?" He finished this with, "What I had was the first of it's kind. I was one of a select few to have this scope during the experimental phase."

Wowww! I'm impressed.

This isn't the only tall story he had. There were a lot that weren't military related, but all in all, he's been labeled as a pathological liar.

 

[ilbob]

Perhaps he was just having a little fun with you to see how gullible you were.

I have been known to do that.

I almost had a guy convinced at a gun show once that aluminum foil does indeed protect you from government spy satellites. It got so deep I could not help myself and started giggling. He did not seem all that amused.

 

[lionking]

hmm,yeah I knew a guy at work like that haha!.Claimed he was a expert at every martial art form.So I said show me some moves,he looked like a dunce.
Then he would say how good he was at sports,at this,at that...jeez

 

[Aguila Blanca]

One of his favorite stories was the one about charlie in the distance at 2 clicks after dusk. He would wait patiently for charlie to light a smoke and then he'd use the burning ember to zero in. I said to him, "How did you know that was the enemy and not a friendly?" His reply was, "I had a special GI 35 power scope with night vision capability." So I just had to ask, "There were night vision rifle scopes in '75?" He finished this with, "What I had was the first of it's kind. I was one of a select few to have this scope during the experimental phase."

I was in Vietnam is 1968 and we had night vision scopes. I didn't -- but they were there. I don't remember how or why it happened, but I wound up with one on my M16 one night when I pulled guard duty, and I got to try it out when another station thought they detected movement beyond the wire.

TOTALLY USELESS. Garbage.

 

[cavman]

It is so easy to be a marine sniper these days.

I love sailing and body surfing the waves, and have been known to consistently hit +/-4" at 25 yards with my .22 Model 41 (and the target didn't even know what was coming).

cavman

p.s. The NASA satellite feed downloading to the scope is a beauty, however.

 

[Ian]

I can't speak for him but i would be willing to be that he is NOT a Marine

If he's not actually an ex-marine, he's really into the idea. He's got "USMC" tattooed in big 2" letters down one upper arm. Also a tattoo of a guy in a set of crosshairs on the other arm.

I didn't want to tear his story down (there would be no point to it, and I have to work around the guy), so I didn't ask him any tough questions, like what the drop n a .50BMG is at two and a half miles. Or how Remington managed to squeeze a .50BMG into their model 750. Or if he could explain the concept of the mildot to me.

 

[mustanger98]

Well, if we're talking about "Tall Tales", I've been in on a thread or two where we spun 'em thick and deep and everybody understood that's all it was. In one of those threads, I had a sort of Super Garand that would consistently knock the enemy's sling swivels off at 1200yds. However, everybody on the thread, as I just said, understood it was a tall tale being spun by SEVERAL members (some of whom really are Vietnam vets and otherwise tell it like it happened) on this one board I was on at the time.

 

[ABTOMAT]

They had night vision scopes in WW2. Vietnam was when starlight scopes became popular--AN/PVS-3. No 35x secret squirrel scopes, though.

 

[PvtPyle]

Ask him to show you the MIL formula, and then ask if his MIL Dots were footballs or baseballs. If he looks at you funny, you know he is FOS.

Most people who say they are snipers can read MILs properly, let alone do the formula in their head or on paper. Marine snipers can.

This guys last name is not Decicco is it?

 

[MikeH]

Where to start? Well, he makes hits at 2.5 miles without trouble. How does he see targets that far away? Well, his scope has a spy satellite feed built in that lets him see the year stamped on a dime at 2.5 miles [yes, he specifically said the date on a dime]. Huh, that's neat. Who makes the scope? NASA. I see.

This must be the scope he used:

 

[ABTOMAT]

Now you've done it. How long before we see someone on the black rifle board put one of those on a forend rail?

 

[cavman]

Gun shop/range watercooler conversations overheard:

"My scope has an eye relief of 23,000 miles.

What about yours?"

 

[MachIVshooter]

Well, he makes hits at 2.5 miles without trouble

Could've sworn the world record distance confirmed kill for a sniper was set by a Canadian in Afghanistan in 2003 with a McMillan .50. Distance was 7,982 ft. That is well short of 2.5 miles. It is nearly 2.5 Kilometers, though.

Any .50 caliber rifles Remington has ever made would not send a bullet 2.5 miles at the optimum angle, let alone with any accuracy. They were popular for buffalo and the like. Of course, none of them have been made in well over a century.

And considering that even the Hubble telescope couldn't pick out the numbers on a digital wristwatch, I'm pretty sure he knows nothing of the technology he claims to have been privvy to.

 

[carebear]

Last Marine sniper I hung out with used to make me do push-ups when he was bored or tell me to put on "Barbie Girl" when we repaired drysuits.

He actually liked Shepherd scopes on his own rifles. I suppose that could refer to Alan Shepherd, and some moon mirror based technology.

 

[Edmond]

He was only a sniper? Most guys I run into who claim something like that go as far as claiming they're USMC sniper instructors. At least that's what he claimed and that's what his t-shirt said.

 

[Vex]

There's this 19 year old kid I see around town every once in a while. He once told me and a friend (who frequents this board, he'll confirm this) that he made a hydraulic-assisted suit of "power armor" made entirely from depleted uranium, it's 16 feet tall, he transports it by walking it into the back of his old pickup truck and driving it to the shooting range where he practices shooting a minigun he mounts to the arm of it. It's so strong, it can withstand a direct shot from a 120mm main battle tank cannon.

Kids these days....