The Amazing Simo Hayha........

[RB Rooson]

During WWII, Simo Hayha, a sniper for the Finnish Army used a Mosin Nagant M28 to kill 500 Russian soldiers in a 100 day period before he was wounded himself in the face (he was able to retrieve his rifle and kill the Russian sniper who shot him).

Simo preferred sniping from a sitting position, as he felt this gave him a very steady shooting platform.  He used only iron sights as Scoped Sniping exposed too much of his head to enemy riflemen.

While small in stature, Simo obviously possessed tremendous eye to hand coordination.  A remarkable man..........

I believe that his nerves must have been like ice - I personally cannot imagine the tension during that 100 day period.

[1911crazy]

Somewhere there is a site with all the sniper names with listed known kills too.    Awesome!!!!                                                  BigBill

The history channel said that snipers where a big part of the battles since the revolutionary war!!!!!   There are also stories from our own civil war too on the history channel it was just on lastweek.  And about Carlos Hathcock who made that shot that was in "the movie sniper"  where he shot thru the bad guys scope and it was a record distance shot for Hathcock for many years I think until the Afgan war  where the Canadian sniper team shot 2,500 meters with a 50BMG thru a corogated steel roof the bad guy sniper was hiding behind killing him they saved many american lives by taking him out.  This story is on the net too.