Detritus
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Amegatek,
that's not the same incident. the one you're refering to is one of the shots(two are refferenced int eh book the longest, adn one against a kid with a bicycle laoded down with weapons adn ammo) made with a scoped M-2 machine gun, and is i believe still the longest recorded combat sniper kill. that kill was made on a man carrying what turned out to be a chinese copy of a Mosin-Nagant rifle, who came into veiw and stopped in place at one of the spots Hathcock had previously pre-registered the gun.
the "sunlight off the scope" shot was made at MUCH shorter distance. and was the closing shot of a "sniper duel" (ie hathcock and the Viet sniper were hunting each other)
that's not the same incident. the one you're refering to is one of the shots(two are refferenced int eh book the longest, adn one against a kid with a bicycle laoded down with weapons adn ammo) made with a scoped M-2 machine gun, and is i believe still the longest recorded combat sniper kill. that kill was made on a man carrying what turned out to be a chinese copy of a Mosin-Nagant rifle, who came into veiw and stopped in place at one of the spots Hathcock had previously pre-registered the gun.
the "sunlight off the scope" shot was made at MUCH shorter distance. and was the closing shot of a "sniper duel" (ie hathcock and the Viet sniper were hunting each other)