Talk:Carlos Hathcock

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Carlos Hathcock was featured on the United States Marine Corps portal as the Selected biography. (29 April - 13 May 2006).

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[edit] Units of Measurement

In the legacy section of the article, there are an over-abundance of units. Yards, miles, meters, (and even a furlong!). It would be clearer and easier to grok if the units were of the same type. I don't know which it would be best to standardize on, but 2500 yards being bested by 2430 meters across two paragraphs takes some brain power to comprehend.

[edit] M25 Tactical Rifle Image

I've cut and pasted the wiki code for the m25.jpg image which is missing from the server. Can we find a good image to put this back and have it displayed? --Paul Laudanski 03:00, 1 August 2005 (UTC) poop

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Check out http://www.free-definition.com/Carlos-Hathcock.html They have an image. Also google images has three, all about the same.

I heard he shot an enemy sniper through his scope and into his eye. It's said to be the inspiration for similar scenes seen in Robocop, Eraser and Saving Private Ryan. Can anyone tell me if this is true?

This is true, though it wasn't his famous long shot. He was in vietnam, and he shot an enemy sniper who was hunting him through the scope, after seeing the glint reflected in the sunlight. The story is recounted in his book, Marine Sniper.Swatjester 07:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I read the book also. To add more cool details (best I remember them..), Hathcock and the enemy sniper were stalking each other over a long period. One day Hathcock notices a strange glint far off so he shoots it and takes off. He sneaks back later to see what it was and discovers the body, and realized what had happened. I seem to recall thinking the movie "Sniper" also took a lot from that book but don't remember precisely if it was this event or what.

Just watched an episode of Mythbusters titled "Firearms Folklore", which tested the myth of Hathcock's scope-shot. Simply put, it was discovered that the shapes of lenses makes it pretty impossible to do that.. they did note that it could probably happen, but labeled the myth "Busted". No intention on putting it on the article, just it's worth knowing. --Uber-Reindeer 02:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The Mythbusters story is already in the main article. Note that the program's "recreation" did not exactly recreate the conditions. — ERcheck (talk) 02:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)