Snaipritegevus on väga efektiivne võitlusviis

[Kapten Trumm]

Kui lubatakse väiksest OT edasi ajada siis raamatus Tapio S. "Valge Saiper" ütleb Simo, et tapvad lasud jäid 100 - 150m juurde. Optikaid lihtsalt alguses ei olnud, Simo oli laskma õppinud raudsihikutega ning ümberõppeks või siis harjumiseks polnud aega. Tollased sihikud olid ka väga haprad ja kapriissed. Simo ei kirjelda seal otseselt, et mitte mingil juhul ei taha optikat vms tema lihtsalt toimetas ilma.

Siia ma tahtsingi jõuda, et kui keegi ütleb, et kui keegi hakkab rääkima snaiperdamisest raudsihikuga, siis tuleb vaadata ka kaugusi, selliste legendidega käib kaasas ka kõvasti kalamehejutte. Juba toonased optikad olid nii mannetud, et tegelikult sai snaiper toona tegutseda tänase TL kaugustel. Ja ilma nendega on kaugus väga piiratud, kuna sihtmärki pole lihtsalt näha.

[ruger]

Lugu 2.maailmasõja ajast Aasiast Guadalcanali saartel 1943 ja salajastelt operatsioonidelt Birmas 1944 aastal

Why Second Lieutenant John George brought his own civilian hunting rifle to Guadalcanal in 1943 — and proved every military expert wrong about what wins sniper duels. This World War 2 story reveals how a mail-order sporting rifle changed Pacific Theater tactics forever.

January 22, 1943. Lieutenant John George, 132nd Infantry Regiment, crouched in ruins west of Point Cruz. Japanese snipers had killed fourteen Americans in seventy-two hours. George aimed through a Lyman Alaskan scope mounted on his Winchester Model 70 — a civilian bolt-action hunting rifle he'd bought with two years of National Guard pay. Every officer in his battalion called it a toy. Captain Morris had ordered him to leave the "mail-order sweetheart" in his tent and carry a real weapon. His fellow platoon leaders said a sporting rifle had no place in modern warfare.

They were all wrong.

What George discovered that morning wasn't about firepower. It was about precision in a way that contradicted everything the Army taught about semi-automatic superiority. His bolt-action Winchester fired slower than the standard M1 Garand but grouped tighter at three hundred yards. What happened in Point Cruz groves over the next four days would change how battalion commanders viewed individual marksmanship. And the technique George used would spread through the Pacific Theater in ways no one expected.

This unofficial innovation saved an estimated two thousand lives before appearing in any training manual. The principles discovered in those coconut groves continue to influence US military sniper doctrine today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZmDPC9k48

Raamatust, mille ta kirjutas
https://gunsmagazine.com/discover/shots-fired-in-anger/