Unless you desire to compare combat records, the comparison to stories heard in an Old Folks Home is ........ LAME ....... at best. You are entitled to be a skeptic. You are not entitled to question the integrity of Gunny Hathcock.
Coffinmaker
You guys need to get a better grip on life. I didn't compare old folks home stories to your beloved sniper, 2 separate circumstances. I find it hard to believe the scope story, based entirely on what experience I have had with rifles and ballistics. Myth Busters tried to get a rifle bullet to pass through the scope from one end to the other without success in a totally separate trial.
Maybe Gunny did it, I don't hang my hat on claims of others and their success or failures. It really doesn't matter in the whole scheme of things, we can all be thankful for the service of our armed forces, but shooting another sniper through his scope , doesn't make me think any more or less of the act.
As far as entitlement goes, I don't question Gunny's service, but skeptical of that shot, I guess you could say that I am. The point of all of this was about claims verses what actually happens with scouts, and I find that most of it is artistic license of those who are writing about such incidences.