Hathcock set the record for the longest confirmed kill at 2286 metres in Vietnam, 1962, which lasted for 40 years.
Try these two sources: "Marine Sniper-93 Confirmed Kills", by Charles W. Henderson. "One Shot, One Kill-American Combat Snipers: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut." By Charles W. Sasser and Graig Roberts.
The Soviet Sniper Mikhail Surkov has the most confirmed kills with an astonishing 702, while Simo Hayha comes in second with a confirmed 505 and Ivan Sidorenko comes in third with around 500 kills
This question always draws an argument when asked. Bodycount? Effecton the battlefield? Most strategic shot? Longest shot? Many factors gointo the equation.The Soviets probably had the finest snipers in WW2, as a group. Vasilli Zaitsev with 224 kills at Stalingrad alone and more than 400 kills in all (some say more than 500) is surely ranked in the top tier. Ludmilla Pavlichenko ranks as the best woman sniper with 309 or more kills.Simo Hayha of Finland is credited with more than 500 kills (by sniper, 200 more with an SMG) during only 100 days, in the Winter War.Billy Singh of the Australian Light Horse would be the top WW1 sniper.Carlos Hathcock, USMC during Vietnam, is legendary for (among other things) setting a world record (longest range confirmed kill, stood for 40 years), shooting and killing an enemy sniper through the scope and crawling through 1000 yards of heavily defended enemy territory to eliminate a Viet Cong general on one of his first missions.Actually, the greatest sniper of WW1 is Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow, a Canadian sniper who earned 378 confirmed kills.
The Mauser es340b was a single shot .22 long rifle. It was made too look and feel like a Mauser 98K. It is not a sniper rifle. It is a target rifle.
captain john t metcalf at a distance of 1666 meters or 1175 yards.
Try these two sources: "Marine Sniper-93 Confirmed Kills", by Charles W. Henderson. "One Shot, One Kill-American Combat Snipers: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut." By Charles W. Sasser and Graig Roberts.
Getting shot by anything is not an experience you want.
The 2Nd longest sniper Shot ever taken place was By a Canadian sniper on tour in Afghanistan, rack up two kills from about 2.5miles! and finally the farthest sniper kill was from a British solider also on tour in Afghanistan taking a life at about 3.1miles!
The concept stems from anti-tank rifles which were developed mostly during the interwar period. To that end, the .55 Boys rifle could be considered the predecessor. However, these were largely unsuccessful, as armor had improved drastically during the Second World War. There were reports of .50 M2 machine guns, in single shot mode, being used for sniping, including the (then) world record distance for a confirmed kill by Carlos Hathcock. The first Special Application Sniper Rifle, arguably, was the Barrett M82/M107. It first saw operational use during Operation Desert Storm.
vice versa sniper rifles shoot their bullets faster than the speed of sound
He had shot his brother.
The furthest confirmed kill shot was Cpl. Rob Furlong, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), firing a McMillan TAC-50 and successfully taking out an enemy combatant at a distance of 2,430 meters in Afghanistan, 2002.
The Bismark ( A battle ship) made acurate shots from A distance of about 12 miles back in the 40's Acctually is was the US battle ship North Carolina or Washington during a night battle with the Japanese Navy in WWII. The distance was 28,000 yards. The longest sniper shot with a kill was made by a Canadian Sniper in Afganastan. He was using a bolt action .50 caliber rifle (12.7 mm) and scored a hit on a taliban fighter at distance of about 2600 meters. His first and second rounds missed but he conected on the third round and killed the insurgent. Before that the record was held by Carlos Hathcock a marine sniper in Vietnam. He scored a kill at 2500 meters using a M2 .50 caliber machine gun he made to shoot single shots. During his time in Vietnam he had a total of 93 confirmed kills, and over 200 probables.
The sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from the 6th floor of the book depository.
The irony in this short story is that the sniper later finds out that who he shot was his brother.
The sniper who shot President Kennedy was proved to have been at the grassy knoll.
Special Agent Kate Todd is shot by a sniper and killed on the season 2 finale of NCIS.