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- writedawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65This record is a bit nit-picky. It's the record for that caliber of rifle - but by no means is it the longest confirmed kill made by a sniper. The single longest kill by a sniper of any caliber in the history of the world was made by Cpl. Rob Furlong from Newfoundland, Canada in March of 2002 with a McMillan Tac-50 sniper rifle. The kill was 7,972.4 feet or 1.5 miles.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52God damn squirrels terrorizing my Lilacs.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -21/+61@returnofmalv:
yeah, how dare he feel good about avenging his fellow soldier's death. how dare he feel proud that he's the best at his job.
grow up. pretty much whatever country you're in, you're there because of people who wanted to fight in a war for the land and for whatever form of freedom you have there. - RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42"No one hits a shot like that and keeps a straight face. "
If he's half a decent sniper he will keep a straight face, otherwise he's not fit to be one. - Nazuel, on 10/12/2007, -43/+78What kind of world do we live in where the killing of a human being is good news? Further reinforced by the fact people are praising it. Amazing how people are all about someone else being killed, but when its their own countrymen, neighbors, or children then its atrocious. Everyone all giddy about this could truly gain some perspective. Reverse the situation and imagine your brother getting killed and all that country can do is talk about what records were sent. A human being died and you all are cheery about it. Shame on you.
- imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -14/+48"He was visible only from the waist up. It was a one-in-a-million shot. I could probably shoot a whole box of ammunition and never hit him again."
That's because by then he would have collapsed to the ground and would be no longer visible. - Kittenality, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37http://static.flickr.com/38/81709879_82f716e81f_o.jpg
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -10/+40Better the enemy dead than him. If that's not a reason to celebrate, I don't know what is.
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -10/+36"Don't worry little Johny, Bambi's mom was an extremist. That hunter did the right thing."
"I love you mommy!" *tear. - malfourmed, on 10/12/2007, -14/+40Nazuel, agreed. Sometimes killing may be necessary, but it should never be cause for celebration.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20That's nothing. I used to bullseye wamprats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters.
- jayhawkstudent, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27Would you rather he had sat around and watched more Americans die? You can't blame a soldier for doing his/her job.
- hereisandy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24"Sgt. Gilliland, 28, who hunted squirrels in Double Springs, Ala., from the age of 5 before progressing to deer -- and then to insurgents and terrorists."
I guess he is just working his way up the ladder. - eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -15/+29heres a thought.... if that American hadn't been there, the 'insurgent' wouldn't have killed him... but hey, Americans in Iraq are a far easier target than Americans in the USA. A cynical person would say thats deliberate... give the enemy an easier target, protect the homeland.
- rogerbannister, on 10/12/2007, -35/+49@Samus
"i'm not american. THANK GOD"
You are not the only one who is thankful that you are not American!!! Stop pretending to know what is best for America, when you don't even live here. Why should Americans take advice from idiots who obviously hate us and have made cesspools out of their own countries? (I'm talking about most of Western Europe here.) - ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+25Tell that to the Aborigines.
- djchester, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19***** job killing people..
- kaashar, on 10/12/2007, -33/+46I praise the fact that particular individual will no longer be killing Americans.
I further praise the individual that pulled off that shot because nearby insurgents will take note of the fact that their buddy was dead before they even heard the report. Perhaps that will make them pause before they shoot another American.
I'm sorry you live in a fantasy world where war is about tossing perfume grenades and candy bullets back and forth, but in this one we idolize those who help our side come home standing up, not in a box. - SuperCujo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13A sniper rifle for home defense?
Seems like a bit of overkill. Unless your house is in the middle of an open field. - ga7sh, on 10/12/2007, -26/+36GTFO of here...
An american killing an iraqi is hailed as a record shot.
An iraqi killing an american is a savage terrorist insurgent [insert other propaganda ***** here]?
HOLY ***** the ***** double standards!
That's ***** disgusting - phatvolvo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16It'd be way cooler if he'd been hunting mosquitoes
- Rsulliv1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+131.21 gigawatts??
- eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15hahahahhaa. 'home defense'... gotta love that.... oooh man, cracks me up.
- eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19Nazuel, I share your sentiment about killing another human being. But when the day is done, the fact remains that this scum had just killed one of our American soldiers. His arrogance of thinking he could get away with it by hiding in an upper window was promptly brought into check by this sniper. I have a hard time in seeing how justice was not done here.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -50/+58http://www.jim.gilliland.youaremighty.com/
Bravo...you killed someone - betacmag4u, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I was just kidding about the home defense..... :)
- alexhengen, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15The guy's job is to kill people while fighting for his country. Don't blame him for that: it really was an amazing shot, even if you hate war/guns/violence. It may be disgusting to cheer for the death of a human being, but I think most people here are amazed at the shot, not at the fact that he killed someone. The article doesn't celebrate the death of the Iraqi, an neither should we. We should, however, support our troops, and there's nothing wrong with supporting a marskman for being good at what he does.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -41/+48http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M24_SWS
A tricked out Remington 700. You can get the basic model down at Wal-Mart for $230. After that, you just take it to a good gunsmith, get the barrel floated in a new stock and trigger job done on it. Add a top of the line scope ($1000 or so) and there you go. For about $1700, you get a rifle as good as this snipers.
Then you need to start hand loading your ammunition, matching each round to the rifle.
And after all that, he is STILL better than you.
This guy kicks serious ass, and I hope they give him a Bronze Star or something. - Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@rs
I agree, the article was not misleading, but the first thing I thought when I read the article title on Digg was that Furlong's record had been broken. Both are amazing shots, however.
I think everyone should be made aware of what happened to Furlong and his unit: http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/canada/article.jsp?content=20060515_126689_126689
In my opinion, they were treated improperly and were swept under the carpet when they should have been treated with much-deserved respect and recognition. - e36wheelman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12@djchester
Actually, American sentiment towards WWII at the time, is much like it is now towards Iraq. Of course, in Germany we found concentration camps, which made the war into a heroic act and all the naysayers STFU. In Iraq, we found more killing camps, but liberals still haven't STFU.
For all you liberals who don't believe me, read General Patton's entire speech someone referenced above. He has a few choice words for America's Doves of the time. - dazichane, on 10/12/2007, -35/+42You're right... we should give the insurgent that just killed an American a hero cookie, amnesty, some property and a job. Let's not forget that the vast majority of these people, if given the choice to push button and kill every "infidel" on the planet, they wold do it in a instant and sleep better for it. I say nice shot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@ZenMojo:
You are either a liar, or a dumbass. I personally think it is both.
1) Japan launched an unprovoked attack on the United States.
2) Japan raped and tortured and murdered the populations they invaded and the POW they captured
3) Japan offered a conditional surrender that was not acceptable to the U.S. The U.S. demanded an unconditional surrender and had stated that it would accept nothing less early in the war.
4) Japan was training women and children to fight and die against an American invasion.
5) Japan and Germany were trying to develop an atomic bomb to use against the U.S.
6) The estimate of casulaties from an invasion of Japan was put at almost 30 million.
All Japan had to do was surrender unconditionally. They didn't. They paid the price.
And, just so everyone knows, the biggest mistakes the U.S. made in this war were allowing the press to come along and not disarming the populace immediately. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Um, no it's not 1.21 km . . . he was an AMERICAN soldier . . . the metric system is unpatriotic.
- betacmag4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Simo Hayha. Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills against Soviet soldiers.
- migla, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Here's an idea of how to stop the insurgents from killing more of "our boys":
Get the ***** out! - Nazuel, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14Wait, wait, wait. Let us stop using insurgent okay?
a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, esp. a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
According to dictionary.com iraqi fighters in opposition to the foreign forces there are not insurgents. Note the lawful authority. The US is guilty of aggression against Iraq and its people, its pretty clear. Just because none of the rest of the world will stand up to the US does not mean our government is free and clear. So stop using insurgent. Those are people fighting in their own country, and/or region. They have more right to be there if they are indeed from a nearby country that our soldiers do.
That settled, I want to make it clear that there is nothing wrong with a soldier defending himself and his fellow soldiers. The problem lies in our desensitized culture that allows for the bragging and back slapping by would be soldiers from the safety of their own home. War is hideous. War is the antithesis of humanity. None of the gloating morons back here in the states has ever been to war. The few exceptions are insane. There are virtually no vietnam vets who look back with glee in their eye on the war. In ten years the soldiers in Iraq will be the same way.
It is not a just war. It is a war for the privelages of the rich elite, paid for by the blood of working class boys n gals. We are responsible for shattering a nation, its people, and earned yet again the enmity of a large part of the world. Keep sitting in your comfy home thinking that the US will maintain its dominance, just as the Romans did. Then you will get to learn the same harsh realities they did at the tender mercies of their former "inferiors". - Soniti, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Why the hell was he using a .308? I thought most of the snipers had moved to a .338 lapua."
This isn't Counter-Strike.
~Soniti - alexhengen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@djchester: I said we should support our troops, and that holds true for no matter what country you hail from. I never said -everyone- should support US troops, just that there's nothing wrong with US residents supporting them, as there is nothing wrong with Aussies supporting Aussie troops or Iraqis supporting Iraqi troops. I even went on to say we shouldn't celebrate the death, because we shouldn't. But there is a difference between hailing the shot, and hailing the death. I would find it just as impressive if it had been on a firing range and not in battle, but it's unfortunate that it had to happen at war, with someone at the receiving end.
- cair0, on 10/12/2007, -20/+25aimbot.....
the thing about the article I didn't get was that he shot from 3/4 of a mile, the scope is accurate to 3300 ft. or 5/8 of a mile, I wouldn't call that "well out of range" of the scope, but still an amazing shot considering I can barely hit a deer from 300 yards. - TexMurphy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Let all of you never forget Carlos N. Hathcock.
Ernest Hemingway: "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter."
Hathcock would eventually be credited with 93 enemy confirmed killed, including one Viet Cong shot dead by a round fired from a scope-mounted Browning M-2 .50 caliber machine gun at the unbelievable range of 2500 yards.
Prob the best sniper of all time........................... One bad mofo.................
http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/heroes/carloshathcock.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6A lot of you are making an odd assumption that the guy he killed was defending his country from those menacing foreign invaders. There's a good chance that the guy wasn't even an Iraqi, and was just there to help stir things up.
I also think its strange how many people don't comment on the feelings of the other side after THEY kill. I guarantee you they aren't sitting around a fire philosophizing and weeping about the agony of killing another human being. You think we revel in it? You have no idea. - JKraut, on 10/12/2007, -33/+38'fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier...'
That bit is enough to make me not want to read anymore...
I just got a feeling that its gona be some stupid patriotic rubish about how American soldiers are so great, etc etc.
Tell me if im wrong. - tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I still say it's impossible.
- djchester, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9sure, but it's still a ***** job.
And can you not come up with a good story for the soldiers in Iraq to tell there grandsons? The WWII was a bit different don't you think? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Oh god... There needs to be a addendum to Godwin's Law. That inevitably when discussing WWII some asshat will make claim about how the US used "nukes" and make it sound unprovoked or unnecessary.
- betacmag4u, on 10/12/2007, -14/+18google ....improvised sniper rifles ... for an inexpensive alternative to his gear. You will need this when the Project for the New American Century plan is implemented.
j/k - Sayshu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8It is a record shot I'm sure, kudos to him for all he has done and will do skillfully in this life. I'm not denying that in any way, but taking a life, should never be a cause for celebration. Even if this was WWII and he had killed Hitler himself, yes good job, we are all are proud and thankful for the job you do, but one should never take satisfaction from the death of another. The most honorable soldier, in my opinion, is the one who regrets all he does and will have to do, but does so anyway because he believes in the cause. One shouldn't fight when one does not believe in it. Also one sacrifices much in being a soldier, they sacrifice they're innocence, something not to be taken lightly.
If you wonder why people elsewhere see our country as a bloodthirsty mob, then remember this one thing. We invaded them, We are the foreign element there. We are the ones killing their families. The insurgents, even if they are in a terrorist group, still have every right to defend their home. W.M.D, Killing American Soldiers, or Political Affiliation aside, everyone has a right to defend their home, even you, and we are the ones trespassing in this situation.
Before this last week I was sad we went there, but I expected it though, as a matter of course. Anyone with half a brain knew after 9/11 they had to respond, because they would have to politically, much less for any other reasons. But now it's even worse. We have killed, by going there not necessarily directly, over 600,000, far more than Saddam did.
Frankly I don't care anymore, and by care, I mean about the U.S. Its a great place, in many many ways, but I cannot trust those who rule here, and as each day goes by, each lie is exposed from now or the past, I learn more and more, that I really never could have.
When this place learns to overcome it's nationalism, and be a little more cosmopolitan in it's outlook, as in looking out for everyone's best interest, not just our own, then I will change my mind. And don't give me that bs that were doing this for the Iraqi's, because that might have meant something, before we killed half a million of them, but their living & dead wont appreciate this, and never will. - ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A gigawatt is 82% of the energy in a bolt of lightning.
- csjavi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Simo Häyhä had 500+ credited sniper kills in about three months. That number doesn't include kills with submachine guns. He used a Mosin-Nagant with iron sights. He had no use for the new-fangled scopes.
Definitely the best sniper of all time. - wyrdness, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11'Fighting for his country'? He's part of an occupying army in a foreign country. Let's not forget that.
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