And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
What would you recommend? As an aside, I bought my kid a ghillie suit for xmas one year, and he spent the next month hiding in the field behind the house and challenging his sisters to find him.
(1) Where is he going to move to exfil after his shot? A bush moving through rubble is only good if you're shooting at blind people. Snipers wearing ghillie suits don't embed themselves in brick and mortar.
(2) Good snipers shoot from well back inside of a building in an urban setting so that the flash can't be seen. Or they shoot from a protected position, such as a rooftop (with a squad around them to protect them), 1 mile from the target. A flash is a flash.
(3) Most snipers shoot with a spotter who watches their six. If you're focusing on the target you get tunnel vision and just because somebody can't see you from the front (enemy direction) doesn't mean that they can't see you from the side.
If your son was hiding where this guy is, the girls would have him in a heartbeat.
When I dropped him off at his college last fall, he was in buying his books, and the chick running the cash register told him he had "a superhero name." That was the sign to me that he wouldn't have any trouble attracting the attention of the ladies, should he so desire.
In the real world sniper situation, this guy would have 8 local kids standing near him trying to get him to give them candy while they laugh and point at him.
Staged photo. Not the best hide...
ReplyDeleteThe guy is an amateur at best.
What would you recommend? As an aside, I bought my kid a ghillie suit for xmas one year, and he spent the next month hiding in the field behind the house and challenging his sisters to find him.
Delete(1) Where is he going to move to exfil after his shot? A bush moving through rubble is only good if you're shooting at blind people. Snipers wearing ghillie suits don't embed themselves in brick and mortar.
Delete(2) Good snipers shoot from well back inside of a building in an urban setting so that the flash can't be seen. Or they shoot from a protected position, such as a rooftop (with a squad around them to protect them), 1 mile from the target. A flash is a flash.
(3) Most snipers shoot with a spotter who watches their six. If you're focusing on the target you get tunnel vision and just because somebody can't see you from the front (enemy direction) doesn't mean that they can't see you from the side.
If your son was hiding where this guy is, the girls would have him in a heartbeat.
When I dropped him off at his college last fall, he was in buying his books, and the chick running the cash register told him he had "a superhero name." That was the sign to me that he wouldn't have any trouble attracting the attention of the ladies, should he so desire.
DeleteI spotted the muzzle amid the detritus but that would be a tad too late.
ReplyDeleteIn the real world sniper situation, this guy would have 8 local kids standing near him trying to get him to give them candy while they laugh and point at him.
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