Link to Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8kHlJxB19c&feature=youtu.be
Spent about $1,500 in ammo and we shot less than 700 rounds…
1,000 rounds. Took me about 4 hours. Not too bad. They’ll all be gone in an hour or so.
P.S. I’m impressed too, incase anyone wanted to know. 
That’s awesome. Not so much the linking of rounds which just sounds like tedious work, but the notion of having a heavy machine gun mounted in my living room facing the world through a window is very cool.
About 100 rounds into it I realized that my linker actually does 3 rounds at a time. It made it go alot smoother.
It really isn’t that tedious if you keep your mind focused on what you will be doing with ten 100rd belts of 50cal :no:
Very cool:cool:
Great opportunity to plug my all time HERO!
Hathcock generally used the standard sniper rifle: the Winchester Model 70 .30-06 caliber rifle with the standard 8-power Unertl scope. On some occasions, however, he used a different weapon: the .50-caliber M2 Browning Machine Gun, on which he mounted the Unertl scope, using a bracket of his own design.[9] This weapon had a Traversing and Elevating (T& E) mount that enabled precise aiming: it was accurate to 2500 yards when fired one round at a time. At one point, he took careful aim at a courier carrying a load of assault rifles and ammunition on a bicycle. He had second thoughts when he saw a 12-year-old boy in his sights, but after considering the intended use of those weapons, he decided to disable the bicycle, hitting the bike frame. The boy tumbled over the handlebars, grabbed a gun, and immediately began firing back, so Hathcock returned fire, killing him.
I had way too much fun doing my Mythbusters thread on Hathcock’s “shot through a scope” kill, and at least in my eyes absolutely proved the validity of this amazing sniper kill and story.
While his long running record for longest sniper kill that only recently was broken has never been disputed, I’m not sure it has every been recreated and simulated. Damn what an awesome thing to do…perhaps I think I have an idea if you will let me come down to your neck of the words;) I do believe you have told me that you only have a 1000yds to play with…Everglades??:D:cool:
I’d say I’m up there with ya but the Army has a hand press I use and makes it so much easier
Who broke Hathcocks record?
I sure was glad to get to the part in the book where he nailed the Alache Woman.
It has been broken several times over. Corporal’s Craig Harrison, Rob Furlong, Arron Perry as well as Sgt Brian Kremer have all surpassed Hathcock from the year 2002 on.
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That’s pretty freaking cool bro! Even after 7 years in the military, I’ve only had the opportunity to shoot the ma-deuce once! (Lame MOS I guess) Who’s Danger-Ranger is that?
Very cool!
I like to point out that Carlos did this with a standard MG…not a super duper accuratized propose build 50 cal sniper rifle. He is my all time favorite hero too.
$1500 in ammo?!? Holy crap, that’s too rich for my blood!
But seriously, that’s one hell of a big boy toy!
Youtube says the video is private.
Not anymore. Sorry about that.
I wonder if the kill total has been broken or if it’s just the documented kill total because the documentation has gotten easier with better technology and a battlefield environment where they don’t drag off the dead?
great accomplishments all the way around, by tremendous soldiers. I just wonder. Kinda like sports records that are broken now that seasons are longer is it really a fair comparison?
John
I’d venture to say if you could get all of those tops snipers in a room, they wouldn’t mention or argue “who had the most kills”.
Certainly true. Professionals of that caliber just never seem to worry about that sort of thing.
John
That picture was taken on Hill 55, 7th Marines FSB
It looks to me like you need to brace that mount better.
The Afghan Army mounts all manner of gun on the back of their Rangers… Put it higher, so you can shoot forward 