Why Snipers Avoid Headshots In Real Life

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2024

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  • @NotWhatYouThink
    @NotWhatYouThink  10 месяцев назад +387

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    • @samborambobo
      @samborambobo 10 месяцев назад +12

      That was a very abrupt ending.

    • @Mechanized85
      @Mechanized85 10 месяцев назад

      Your ads are what the fuck

    • @Privacityuser
      @Privacityuser 10 месяцев назад

      toxoplasma giardia pllus RATS leptospirose andnmost important of all MOSQUTOS

    • @general_paul
      @general_paul 10 месяцев назад +4

      One thing you missed is that since snipers spend their time gathering lots of information and knows the secret ins and outs of enemy position, it is vital for the enemy to force the sniper to vomit out all the facts he/she has gathered and hence, there is also a practical reason to be especially mistreated

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 10 месяцев назад +3

      The coriolis effects on a bullet, over the distance of a snipers shot is non existant.

  • @meenayadav5922
    @meenayadav5922 10 месяцев назад +3603

    In Conclusion:
    Due to their small size and constant movement, heads are not considered a dependable target for snipers. Instead, snipers typically focus on aiming at objects that offer a higher probability of hitting.

    • @אתהברטון
      @אתהברטון 10 месяцев назад +153

      Aim small, miss small.

    • @Diego-ym4rx
      @Diego-ym4rx 10 месяцев назад +133

      Thats why they always aim for the torso. Is the biggest part of the body and where most of your internals are

    • @donaldcarey114
      @donaldcarey114 10 месяцев назад +199

      Also a wounded enemy will use up resourses that a dead one won't.

    • @Glittersword
      @Glittersword 10 месяцев назад +19

      ​@@Diego-ym4rx
      Also known as the Sniper's triangle.

    • @Glittersword
      @Glittersword 10 месяцев назад +43

      ​@@donaldcarey114 immediately requires one person for a fireman's carry then two soldiers to carry a stretcher. Maybe a third if a medic is administering an IV. In that case I don't see the medic as one carrying the stretcher.

  • @teoengchin
    @teoengchin 10 месяцев назад +5187

    Just change your weapon settings to "hit scan" instead of projectile in order to avoid problems with wind and gravity

    • @whereismycup
      @whereismycup 10 месяцев назад +368

      No don’t, my dad did that and he got arrested for assassination

    • @hawlitakerful
      @hawlitakerful 10 месяцев назад +132

      ​@@whereismycuphitscan was illegal in dallas at that time

    • @SYN7H3T1C4
      @SYN7H3T1C4 10 месяцев назад

      I don't remember ATF consider a high power laser pen as a gun.....@@hawlitakerful

    • @boofingenthusiast
      @boofingenthusiast 10 месяцев назад +43

      Hitscan is superior for competitive play. Tarkov players can’t CS but plenty of CS players can Tarkov. Boomer dad AR-15 kit similator. Muh landmark. More like skidmark. You guys stink 🤢
      Edit: Sorry I boofed

    • @overtale4516
      @overtale4516 10 месяцев назад +31

      Turn off bullet drop and wind speed and direction and turn on hit markers

  • @ButWhyWasTaken
    @ButWhyWasTaken 9 месяцев назад +15

    1:46 tbh that's far more badass than any sniper shots, confirmed killcounts or other such stuff.

  • @Outlander34
    @Outlander34 10 месяцев назад +1923

    Stephen was an absolute professional. Takes a chest shot, hits the deck, got up, kept is wits, got cover, pointed out the sniper and then rendered aid to said sniper. As an ex-medic, he was right to help the sniper. However either he's a chill dude, or very well trained for him to act like he did. Good on him

    • @ahmedj2458
      @ahmedj2458 10 месяцев назад +128

      Im a muslim, hate the fact that the USA invaded iraq, but big respect for this soldier, I don’t know if I know anyone who has it in them to actually act THAT professional.

    • @urrywest
      @urrywest 10 месяцев назад +43

      @@ahmedj2458 Many US snipers who whent to Iraq came home with what I call "injuries of conscious" meaning while they were in the field they meaning while they were in the field they exucted commadts of questionable ethics. Now they have problems involved in the ethics of what they did. To me they are just another innocent victim of the policies that killed so many others.
      It is not up to you to forgive them. It is up to themselves and their families..... Those with the injuries are the upstanding ones. Some have other ways of dealing with it. They demonize all those kinds of people they killed.

    • @smutz131
      @smutz131 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@urrywest conscious --> conscience

    • @Tank50us
      @Tank50us 10 месяцев назад +33

      @@urrywest The kicker is always that had they not done what they did... what would the situation be? For example, you see a woman take a grenade and is getting ready to throw it... if you shoot her, you're killing someone's sister/mother/daughter... and that's not a good feeling... but if you don't shoot her, that grenade she's about to throw could kill several people.
      A lot of the time, those guys had to make very split-second decisions that could easily go one way or the other, and realistically... either option would suck

    • @Mutrax4706
      @Mutrax4706 10 месяцев назад +15

      @@Tank50us a choice between doing evil, or doing nothing and letting worse evil happen

  • @andrewrussack8647
    @andrewrussack8647 10 месяцев назад +6954

    “This is why ‘flat-earthers don’t make good snipers”, is an expression I didn’t expect to hear!

    • @mikebrase5161
      @mikebrase5161 10 месяцев назад +342

      I have a flat earther at work. He was spouting his Bullshiiite at lunch. I just said dude I was a Mortarman for 14 years STFU and leave me alone. He was like why? I'm like go read up on GM angle and leave me alone.

    • @xxan84
      @xxan84 10 месяцев назад +143

      When he said the line about the Earth rotating, I was thinking about FEs, then he did not disappoint by actually saying that line :)

    • @solev657
      @solev657 10 месяцев назад +11

      Lol yeah

    • @gordonscott6180
      @gordonscott6180 10 месяцев назад

      They also make pretty terrible pilots, sailors, telecom engineers, surveyors....the list goes on lol. That's the thing I can never understand about FEs. Don't they understand how many people have to account for the curve of the earth to do they're everday jobs? Are they all just in on it? There are literally tens, maybe hundreds of millions of regular middle-class working people world-wide who would have actively participating in this conspiracy. Utterly ridiculous.....

    • @Abravado
      @Abravado 10 месяцев назад +47

      ​@@xxan84me too, I already made the joke in my head and I cracked up when ge said it.

  • @MarkSir
    @MarkSir 10 месяцев назад +5

    Not just snipers, Everyone would avoid headshots! Who wanna be shot in the head? That's painful!

  • @cybercat7851
    @cybercat7851 10 месяцев назад +1387

    “Dang its hot today, I wish I didn’t pull guard duty…”
    The bush next to me: “buddy, you ain’t got it that bad.”

    • @Kylel0519
      @Kylel0519 10 месяцев назад +125

      “Shit I guess you’re right…Wait a sec-“

    • @FrostYT4444
      @FrostYT4444 10 месяцев назад +63

      @@Kylel0519 "Shh SHh Sh Shhh...Don't make a sound"

    • @grimreaper6557
      @grimreaper6557 10 месяцев назад +30

      stay perfictly still and you will live through this .........Phuuut oops I lied

    • @TotallyAHuman
      @TotallyAHuman 10 месяцев назад +8

      wait hol' up

    • @360.Tapestry
      @360.Tapestry 10 месяцев назад +10

      the tick crawling up his leg: seems just dandy to me...

  • @brianfreeman8290
    @brianfreeman8290 10 месяцев назад +623

    Years ago, a friend had an unusually large head. He hated it when I called him 'Snipers dream.'

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  10 месяцев назад +82

      🤣👍🏼

    • @Qubecumber
      @Qubecumber 9 месяцев назад +96

      seeing how you said 'had" an unusually large head, I'm assuming it's now sniper's dream come true?

    • @bananawithaknife
      @bananawithaknife 8 месяцев назад +16

      Is this a Bob Mortimer reference?

    • @georgelampropoulos1704
      @georgelampropoulos1704 7 месяцев назад +7

      Ah, good ol' Gary Cheeseman

    • @booboones3093
      @booboones3093 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@QubecumberOr they grew into it

  • @skotskot3379
    @skotskot3379 4 месяца назад +49

    the spotter is the guy who does the research and makes the entire presentation while the sniper is the guy who presents it in front of the class

    • @PalleHellemann
      @PalleHellemann 4 месяца назад +2

      The more experienced sniper is maybe older and his eyesight is maybe not what it used to be, which makes it easier for the younger guy to do the actual shot.

    • @gandalfdergraue8444
      @gandalfdergraue8444 2 месяца назад

      I like this metaphor...

  • @ON-O
    @ON-O 10 месяцев назад +930

    Military snipers don‘t go for heads as well because a dead soldier means one less enemy to fight. An injured soldier means at least one or two of his comrades will likely help him, thus cutting three men from the fight

    • @marktalamson4697
      @marktalamson4697 10 месяцев назад +68

      wow. learnt something new today

    • @dominuslogik484
      @dominuslogik484 10 месяцев назад +160

      that is entirely dependent on the conflict involved. sometimes a sniper will intentionally injure a target to draw out others to shoot instead but from plenty of footage coming out of Syria and Ukraine right now they just aim for lethal shots straight away.

    • @flydrop8822
      @flydrop8822 10 месяцев назад +129

      ​@@dominuslogik484yeah, not to mention if your target is a high value one you most likely want them dead right away, not injured. I think this mentality of just injuring is more likely to matter with regular infantry, and not as prominent in sniping.

    • @dominuslogik484
      @dominuslogik484 10 месяцев назад +40

      @@flydrop8822 Snipers often aren't looking for particular individuals but they do have a priority list to go down when they spot targets which usually starts at whoever the officer/leader of a squad is or the machineguner. after that its really whoever pokes out.

    • @spocktn8337
      @spocktn8337 10 месяцев назад +17

      That is true in an western army. Russian soldiers prefer to put a handgrenade under their chin and pull the pin because the know no help is coming if it is not from the enemy side that is.

  • @IsfetSolaris
    @IsfetSolaris 10 месяцев назад +917

    Best sniper I've ever seen was a lady who'd come to the range after her classes on Fridays. She could hit just about any shot I'd give her, and spotted for herself. Why was she so good? She was a student studying for a PhD in physics, after returning from a tour in Afghanistan. She could do almost all of the required math in her head. It became a game of sorts for the range staff to give her the most challenging shots we could.

    • @theemirofjaffa2266
      @theemirofjaffa2266 10 месяцев назад +39

      Daaammmm! Wish I am that good.

    • @The_Judge300
      @The_Judge300 10 месяцев назад +113

      Most if not all of the best snipers are good at math.
      Or at least that is how it was before ballistic calculators became common.
      All that passed when I got my sniper training many years ago, where all good to very good at math.
      Personally I think to many snipers and spotters depend to much on the ballistic calculator to tell them what to do these days.
      I think it is to little focus on training them to manage well without all the modern gadgets as they might end up in a situation without one or more of them, but need to take a very important shot.

    • @gearfriedtheswmas
      @gearfriedtheswmas 10 месяцев назад +18

      Was she from a dream or hallucination? And how was she with the 3 hour mud crawl?

    • @BrokenLifeCycle
      @BrokenLifeCycle 10 месяцев назад +31

      ​@@The_Judge300Either that or they were really good with slide rules growing up, so they have a physical analog for numbers in their head like how a pianist associates specific sounds to a location on the instrument.

    • @leothenomad5675
      @leothenomad5675 10 месяцев назад +24

      ​@@gearfriedtheswmasMud crawl? You did see the part about the shooting range and after class, right?

  • @neiloconnor9349
    @neiloconnor9349 5 месяцев назад +9

    The coriolis effect is minimal for the normal ranges used by snipers, but it does affect artillery, which fires up to ten times that range, normally

  • @TheLiamster
    @TheLiamster 10 месяцев назад +2170

    I always remember to take the Coriolis effect into account when sniping

    • @Ribberflavenous
      @Ribberflavenous 10 месяцев назад +137

      But the world flat, that would make yo miss.

    • @rintuut
      @rintuut 10 месяцев назад +73

      ​@@Ribberflavenous Capybara

    • @ry_an.
      @ry_an. 10 месяцев назад +141

      @@Ribberflavenousno the earth is a donut

    • @bazarleam2593
      @bazarleam2593 10 месяцев назад +2

      Duh 🤷‍♂️

    • @rintuut
      @rintuut 10 месяцев назад +17

      @@bazarleam2593 Capybara

  • @lacai527
    @lacai527 10 месяцев назад +206

    All this makes Simo Häyhä more amazing, he did most of this out of common sense, ate snow to hide breathing, covered himself in snow etc, and no ranger finder or scope.

    • @therealchen
      @therealchen 10 месяцев назад +16

      He shot at conscripts grouped up together at a closer range than todays snipers.

    • @lacai527
      @lacai527 10 месяцев назад +37

      @@therealchen i think you want to look more into it, yes that was early days, then he become lone wolf, if intel said he was in area that area got mortals and anti snipers there.

    • @eeka_droid
      @eeka_droid 10 месяцев назад +15

      The man was the grim reaper incarnation

    • @lacai527
      @lacai527 10 месяцев назад +24

      @@eeka_droid legend says grim reaper hide from him.

    • @hissingoose
      @hissingoose 10 месяцев назад +51

      Most of his engagements were under 200m, which takes a different set of balls to pull off.

  • @2cent194
    @2cent194 4 месяца назад +136

    The timing of this video popping up in the feed is bizzare

    • @martinm3474
      @martinm3474 4 месяца назад +5

      I've been seeing this pop up for close to a week before what happened Happened.

    • @LoliPolice-bf7mw
      @LoliPolice-bf7mw 4 месяца назад +2

      Same lmao

    • @the_babbleboom
      @the_babbleboom 4 месяца назад

      yt algo trying to educate people about the difference between a miracle and just a dipshit lousy shot.

    • @braydengorrie1474
      @braydengorrie1474 4 месяца назад +1

      I legit just seen it and laughed of the irony cause buddy spent so much time watching demo ranch when he could've watched something like this and america would be in a complete state of disseray due to the maga extremists

    • @GameFuMaster
      @GameFuMaster 3 месяца назад +2

      I got recommended because... you know

  • @whynotjustmyusername
    @whynotjustmyusername 10 месяцев назад +706

    It is remarkable that Tschiderer stayed true to his role as a medic. The difference between a soldier and a murderer is this basic respect to any human, friend, foe or civilian.

    • @nobody-iz3fu
      @nobody-iz3fu 10 месяцев назад

      Sound nice but that's nonsense a soldier is someone who kills on orders from a chain of command, unlike your a snowflake trying to redefine what soldiers are trained to do.

    • @wolf2179
      @wolf2179 10 месяцев назад +23

      Or it could be just the fact that had he not done this, he would be receiving a court martial for violating Geneva Conventions. And last I recalled military prison isn't exactly fun and is pretty much a very very good deterrent as well as the fact you essentially lose all benefits and get no pay and dishonorably discharged which is the equivalent of a felony. If you are married this essentially screws your family as they no longer get medical benefits and if you are court martialed and it succeeds and your family lives on post, they will have 6-12 months to leave post as they are no longer entitled/qualified to live on post since the soldier in question is no longer entitled to any benefits.

    • @seijirou302
      @seijirou302 10 месяцев назад +33

      ​@@wolf2179 oh? And who would have reported the events?
      You're clueless.

    • @No.Good.Nickname
      @No.Good.Nickname 10 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@wolf2179comrades will Not Report you, who else will?

    • @joik2ww269
      @joik2ww269 10 месяцев назад +23

      @@No.Good.Nickname most those conventions work on basic respect. Red cross means you get help if lay your weapons. In combat it's not so clear but after it is over everyone is patched up best we can. Also well treated wounded enemy easier gives information.

  • @AnaRxistBoD
    @AnaRxistBoD 10 месяцев назад +297

    - Private Johnson!
    - Yes, sir!
    - Didn't see you on the sniper stalking train session this morning!
    - Thank you sir!

  • @Norman-th7kx
    @Norman-th7kx 4 месяца назад +141

    Someone must have missed this video.

  • @milseq
    @milseq 10 месяцев назад +308

    I do sport shooting with air rifles at 10m. What you said about heartbeat and micro-movements is absolutely true.
    My heartbeat can make me hit an 8 instead of a 10 very easily (a 9 is bad, anything below 9 is abysmal).

    • @tntdoctor
      @tntdoctor 10 месяцев назад +15

      .22 LR target shooter here, absolutely makes a difference. Even the way your finger is positioned when you pull the trigger can slightly change it, especially at say 50m on electronic targets. Sick sport though

    • @mghegotagun
      @mghegotagun 10 месяцев назад +10

      No one taught me that. Autistic levels of OCD, and air force indoctrination made me pick up on my heartbeat nudging my torso leaning against the bench causing very minor (but still annoying) movement in the sight when trying to group with a 10 power optic at 100 yards.
      I was... REALLY intent on grouping perfectly; precision ammo isn't cheap.

    • @counterfit5
      @counterfit5 10 месяцев назад +8

      Heck, I even notice it when shooting a camera

    • @RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq
      @RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 10 месяцев назад +3

      I once got a 240 mm group size (up from ≈75) simply because my breathing was wrong (I had influenza).

    • @goldengoat1737
      @goldengoat1737 10 месяцев назад +2

      That must be fun! Assuming they are semi auto air guns? Grew up shooting but haven’t shot a pellet rifle in a long time. I bet the air guns have come along way since the pump master

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 10 месяцев назад +313

    There was no outro for the video, which makes me think it got cut off too early. Maybe NWYT got taken out by an enemy sni

    • @DalHrusk
      @DalHrusk 10 месяцев назад +23

      It's not the first time he's suddenly cut off a video like that. Room for improvement in otherwise great videos.

    • @blvck.8197
      @blvck.8197 10 месяцев назад +20

      SNIPER! TAKE COVER!

    • @outofturn331
      @outofturn331 10 месяцев назад +24

      I got him in my sigh

    • @pom8130
      @pom8130 10 месяцев назад +31

      enemy sniper what? finish your senten-

    • @eyeballpapercut4400
      @eyeballpapercut4400 10 месяцев назад +6

      nah he got droned

  • @brien656
    @brien656 10 месяцев назад +4

    OK,. it's been a while but, I went through Sniper training in the FFL back in 1987. Everything you mentioned mostly applies to Moderen Snipers or US snipers. There back then It was all up to us. We were set in the normal troop line up in a Sqaud. Totally different. NO spotter. We were the spotters. At times we would be pulled togather as a Sniper team but still really alone and No one spotter. Everthing you said the spotter does we did by ourselves and we didn't have Electronics to give us answers.( yeah, it bothers me when I hear/see it). I'm not downing what you've said but, it is a different type of Sniper.

  • @quinnhavel7638
    @quinnhavel7638 10 месяцев назад +126

    2:18 Even if they weren't in ghillie suits, there would have been no way to see them. They weren't blending in, they were straight up hidden behind everything 💀

    • @MangaGamified
      @MangaGamified 10 месяцев назад +6

      I was thinking if someone told me they're hiding somewhere in a 12x12 area, i'll just ask someone to send in a predator 🚀

    • @jasondressler6263
      @jasondressler6263 10 месяцев назад +30

      Exactly! They could have been playing volleyball back there and they would have been impossible to see..
      "Can you see the sniper hiding behind the tree around the corner completely out of the camera frame?" No. No we can't.

    • @risingsun9064
      @risingsun9064 10 месяцев назад +1

      yeah that made no sense

    • @oldogre5999
      @oldogre5999 9 месяцев назад +8

      I spotted them in under 60 seconds, there were two blades of grass almost dancing just about dead center of the screen when practically nothing else was moving at all! Not even leaves on the trees. Safe bet SOMETHING was there. Other than that you'd never have seen them in a million years, watch how they stand up, they were BELOW GROUND LEVEL with the foreground!! Either in a swale or hole in the ground or there was a slight rise in the ground in front of them...

    • @Former11BRAVO
      @Former11BRAVO 5 месяцев назад

      Yep. And they couldn't have engaed anyone behind all that shit.

  • @PieterBreda
    @PieterBreda 10 месяцев назад +345

    Basically, unless extremely unlucky, you'll never spot them. Imagine trying to find a heavily camouflaged team at 400+ meters. Practically impossible

    • @Tormentality
      @Tormentality 10 месяцев назад +17

      I'm curious how a sniper gets a clear shot when lying hidden in grass and brush like in the example in this vid. I assume they'd have to find a stump or bush or something to prop up on in order to get a view?

    • @MrParker300
      @MrParker300 10 месяцев назад +54

      Not with thermal Scopes these days. Even the one I've got as a civilian now. You can spot a guille suit like a light bulb at ranges well past 500m

    • @acolyteaxiom4054
      @acolyteaxiom4054 10 месяцев назад +45

      @@MrParker300 There is different materials that don't allow the transfer of heat through the coating. So they actively camouflage IR cameras signature.

    • @batman_2004
      @batman_2004 10 месяцев назад +23

      That's where you are wrong son. My nanovison can detect anything within a range of 100 km. And as soon as the nanovison detects the enemy, it calls a direct airstrike direct from orbit via the hunter satelite in mere seconds.
      So good luck. 😂

    • @PieterBreda
      @PieterBreda 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@batman_2004 Damn, you're good.

  • @larrypeltierjr5165
    @larrypeltierjr5165 4 месяца назад +10

    Snipers are similar to us in Law Enforcement. We aim for center-mass to eliminate threat. For the civilian that wonders why we could not just aim for the arm that was holding the firearm. Does not work that way.

    • @paullangford8179
      @paullangford8179 3 месяца назад +1

      There was a case where the person with the gun was sitting on a chair in an intersection: he was working himself up to suicide. The law enforcement officer had a hobby: benchrest shooting. He watched the pattern of movement, and at the right moment shot the pistol out of the gunman's hand, without damaging the guy's hand!

  • @00alexander1415
    @00alexander1415 10 месяцев назад +248

    Here, let me save you some time:
    Heads are small, identifying later is hard only by the clothes, getting shot in the chest with a big rifle kills all the same, or even better, maims for life.

    • @name5336
      @name5336 10 месяцев назад +36

      THANK YOU GOD DAMN IT 18 MINS FOR A FUCKING SENTENCE

    • @Velthrex
      @Velthrex 10 месяцев назад +24

      Thank you! took me a minute to realize that bro was yapping about stuff not directly relevant to the question rather than get straight the point, I hate stuff like that. The details about how snipers and spotter aim are relevant and interesting but that should go AFTER the answer is given. The rest is filler.
      RUclips channels should seriously start considering a short & long answer format instead of baiting people to try and get more view time.

    • @sisyphusofephyra7801
      @sisyphusofephyra7801 10 месяцев назад +10

      You ppl watch nwyt for the question in the title?

    • @fumikato
      @fumikato 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@Velthrex it's called marketing strategy and you don't need to cry about it

    • @SUPPLEGENIUS
      @SUPPLEGENIUS 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@fumikato But the person they're trying to market to is the dude "crying about it", so maybe they should take his advice. In any case, what he's doing is better than crying about somebody who's crying about somehing else, which is what you're doing.

  • @steveknight878
    @steveknight878 10 месяцев назад +53

    "Didn't see you in camouflage practice today, Corporal Jones"
    "Yes Sir! Thankyou Sir!"

  • @ArchangelAmin
    @ArchangelAmin 4 месяца назад +14

    This time RUclips algorithm was a bit late to bring up this video👀

  • @Rikkis309
    @Rikkis309 10 месяцев назад +201

    Served as a sniper (or maybe marksman would be more accurate term) in Finnish army, one maybe obvious thing to add for the "high value target" list includes anyone using radios or any kind of special equipment (MGs, anti-tank etc.). And the 1st priority was always the most dangerous enemy, then the high value ones.
    Instructors sometimes told stories of how in past wars some snipers added to their terror by shooting either the 1st person of the Russians walking through, or maybe always the 2nd one. This made it so that sometimes enemy didn't want to take the lead, or maybe follow anyone who did. Scary stuff to even think about.

    • @04rit
      @04rit 10 месяцев назад +3

      Exactly. You can watch this thing in ‘Enemy at The Gates’ film.

    • @geraldposter1496
      @geraldposter1496 10 месяцев назад +18

      Not a sniper myself, but in basic we'd always be told that the enemy would go after the easiest target (aka which one of us was fucking up) first. I always thought, no if I was the enemy I'd take out the ones who look like they're at the top of their game first cause if chaos breaks out and they're still alive they're the ones I'd need to worry about. I'd rather have to worry about the ones who clearly don't do their jobs well and will likely be easier targets.

    • @guestimator121
      @guestimator121 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@04rit The movie where they have two guys per one rifle? You know that was really a thing? Neither was NKVD shooting on its soldiers.

    • @MistaOppritunity
      @MistaOppritunity 10 месяцев назад +8

      @@geraldposter1496 But they would likely be harder to hit/kill than the easiest target, and at that point you're dealing with more numbers than you would otherwise have to. Theoretically speaking, if you take out several easy targets, you leave an uphill battle for the remaining guys, strong as they are, yeah?

    • @AutPen38
      @AutPen38 9 месяцев назад

      In the IDF, the snipers just shoot whoever is holding a white flag.

  • @Terastas
    @Terastas 10 месяцев назад +16

    2:22: The one plant swaying when there wasn't any wind making the others move gave them away.
    I'll bet a lot of people paused the video to try to find them and ended up robbing themselves of that one single tell in the process.

  • @franzrogar
    @franzrogar 10 месяцев назад +2

    Not just "because heads are tiny targets", but a dead enemy depletes no enemy resources, whereas a hurt one does (reduces first aide supplies, slow the enemy retreat, etc.) being more helpful in a war than just a corpse that can be left aside.

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад

      is wounded enemy a better sandbag than a dead one? And arent live enemy soldiers the best sandbags, becos you can grab them from the rear and walk forward with the man in front of you acting as meat shield?

  • @raykoziupa8275
    @raykoziupa8275 10 месяцев назад +91

    Interesting note about gravity. It is not a constant. Location on the earth...latitude and longitude along with elevation. Plus it is not a constant with time...the location of the moon in respect to your location, time of day and day of the year are needed to be factored in for longer shots.

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  10 месяцев назад +19

      Interesting 👍🏼

    • @MajorJakas
      @MajorJakas 10 месяцев назад +2

      Prove it.

    • @BuckClucks
      @BuckClucks 10 месяцев назад +28

      @@MajorJakas The tides is one example of moons gravitational pull on Earth.

    • @MajorJakas
      @MajorJakas 10 месяцев назад

      @@BuckClucks doesn't really prove anything, though, and as all the moon rocks were just petrified wood, you're statement relies heavily on the conjecture of those given government funding. People such as Eric Dollard were paid by the government to study the skies, but since his findings didn't concur with what our satanic overlords decided to promote as true, he was fired. Everything you know is just what you've been told to know. The truth came out, so Obama made it legal for our government to push propaganda on it's own people, Trump came along and talked up a "space-force", Biden I now in office making sure nobody can ever afford an interest in science ever again. Those of us who were smart before algorithms made the truth impossible to find, know this is all just talk, with no concrete foundation. Abandon the false teachings of your Einstein, Darwin, and Marx. Textbooks claim long bridges must be built with curvature in mind, such as the Mackinaw bridge, yet the actual builders never take such into consideration. No footage of any camera leaving the surface of the earth shows the horizon to drop. Elon Musk putting a car into space, when he even admitted nothing at all was done to the car to prepare it for space, and yet the tires remained inflated? The moon landings were so tight on mass restrictions that they couldn't send a proper camera to the moon, but brought gold clubs and dune buggies? As a scientist, with family that has worked for NASA, myself and many other people smarter than you were fighting for the truth to come out, but the lies have taken root, people do not want to be culpable for their actions, they want to believe we are all made of stardust, even though there isn't a single intermediary fossil to support such a claim. All we have around us are fully formed creatures, and a Bible that tells us where to find Noah's ark and that babies produce vitamin K on the day that God says to perform circumcisions. Fossils of dinosaurs alongside evidence of humans is everywhere. We have Roman artifacts found in South America depicting dinosaurs they should have never seen. History of full of people that believe what they are told, and they believe it to the grave, yet the truth has never been erased. There are plenty of testimonies from architects and artillerymen alike who do just fine following the military manuals instructions to assume the earth to be a flat plane when making your math. The only people saying otherwise are our overlords who wish Epstein was still alive.

    • @nayhem
      @nayhem 10 месяцев назад +3

      Now I need this in MacMillan's voice.
      (or maybe Hoot's?)

  • @harlyquin
    @harlyquin 10 месяцев назад +65

    2:20 no, unless you have the ability to see through solid objects, you would normally have the camo guys hiding in plane sight letting their camo gear do the work, this has the guys behind bushes

    • @PopeClemensIIX
      @PopeClemensIIX 10 месяцев назад +27

      Thought the same...
      Stupid example.
      Let me get behind a tree, which covers me COMPLETELY then ask someone to see me.

    • @The_Judge300
      @The_Judge300 10 месяцев назад +12

      I was thinking exactly the same.
      This was some typical BS we see all the time when people want to talk about snipers hiding.
      As a sniper you need to be able to take the shot without and form of branches or twigs that can ruin the shot.
      So you need to blend in in plain sight.
      Very often you use shadows to help you with that.

    • @alitharealist4730
      @alitharealist4730 10 месяцев назад +13

      And that sniper had like 600 bushes in front of his scope he is not seeing anything lol.. Unless he shoots with luck through the bushes each time and all then he would be the most best sniper in the world.. That clip made no sense.

    • @Marconel100
      @Marconel100 10 месяцев назад

      Ikr what the hell..

    • @sirridesalot6652
      @sirridesalot6652 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@alitharealist4730 And that's not to mention that those bushes are quite likely to deflect the bullet from its intended trajectory.

  • @theemmjay5130
    @theemmjay5130 4 месяца назад +7

    "This is why flat-earthers don't make good snipers." "And no, they don't buy all their supplies and clothing at Target." Love it.

  • @j4s0n39
    @j4s0n39 10 месяцев назад +108

    Most snipers and precision long range shooters don't bother to account for the Coriolis effect. Enter the data for a 6.5CM shot under 1km into a ballistics calculator like Applied Ballistics, and compute the hold with and without Coriolis. The difference will be negligible.
    Also, at 6:55, the game in your ad shows a full round, not just a bullet, of what appears to be 9mm, flying through the air. It even has an unfired primer and a headstamp on the case. Nobody so clueless about firearms is going to make a decent firearm related game.
    The drop difference between 760y and 870y completely depends on the caliber. With something like a .300WM or .338 Lapua it will be minimal. That's one reason sniper units are moving towards more powerful rounds like those.
    Laser range finders measure the angle of the return laser and use trigonometry to calculate the distance.

    • @brosthestickmandude
      @brosthestickmandude 10 месяцев назад +3

      I have never been so interested in snipers in my life and now here I am

    • @themoss7115
      @themoss7115 10 месяцев назад +7

      Bullet drop is not the first/only reason why are snipers moving towards heavier bullets. Snipers (or any long range shooters) prefer better ballistic coefficient over the flatter trajectory (you can measure the distance precisely, but cross wind will be always a good guess at best). Thing is, snipers are greedy and they want both with some some extra lethality on top. You can have all of those only with heavy, powerful and hard recoiling monsters.

    • @j4s0n39
      @j4s0n39 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@themoss7115 I clearly said it's one reason, not the only reason or the primary reason.
      Also it's not exactly heavier that we're going for to improve BC, it's the length to diameter ratio. My 6mm Dasher bullets are 105gr. My .308 bullets are 175gr. But my Dashers have a better BC because they're long and skinny.

    • @The_Judge300
      @The_Judge300 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@themoss7115
      A 338 Lapua Magnum or a 338 Norma Magnum are not that hard recoiling at all in modern sniper rifles.
      Specially because silencers are used as well.
      A 50 BMG is usually not used against humans and they are terrible to carry around for most sniper roles.
      A 338 is mainly used because of high BC for cross wind and to lose as little KE as possible.
      And to combat body armor.
      If the sniper that shot at Stephen Tschiderer had used a 338, Stephen Tschiderer would not have survived the shot.
      The sniper was clearly not a well trained, smart and experienced sniper as he would never tried a torso shot with the gun he used.
      If he had been that, he would have taken a neck or head shot to avoid the body armor.

    • @Henrik.Yngvesson
      @Henrik.Yngvesson 10 месяцев назад

      @@The_Judge300 Better to aim for the lower and legs. A dead soldier can be left behind, but an injured requires 2 healthy soldiers to get him out so that's 3 soldiers out of the game with 1 shot.

  • @davidneumann5175
    @davidneumann5175 10 месяцев назад +21

    There's more involved in some of this. It depends on caliber, muzzle velocity, bullet weight etc.
    from a hunting view, a 30:06 bullet has 2 points that are on X. The bullet rises to a certain point then starts to drop, so if your sighting in for 200 yards then the bullet will be on X again at say 375 yards. Those aren't good numbers but it's an example, on going up, on coming back down

    • @anthonydoyle7370
      @anthonydoyle7370 10 месяцев назад +2

      Parabolic arc is the term used to describe the movement of the round in flight.

    • @tombstonegabby
      @tombstonegabby 8 месяцев назад

      Don't know about the 30.06. However. SMLE No 1 Mk III. .303 Set open sight at 200 yards. Shoot at 25 yards - should be spot-on for elevation/line of sight. 25 yards and 200 yards are the crossing points .(Personal experience. Australian Army Cadet Corps: 1955/'58.)

    • @anthonyluc5981
      @anthonyluc5981 2 месяца назад

      The only way a bullet raises is if the barrel is pointed upwards. If the barrel is level, it doesn't matter the size or power it has, the bullet will only drop.

    • @davidneumann5175
      @davidneumann5175 2 месяца назад

      @@anthonyluc5981 you missed the entire point

  • @GothAlice
    @GothAlice 10 месяцев назад +3

    "I'm a medic. It's my job. It doesn't matter, friend or foe. As soon as he's put down his weapons, I've got to treat him."
    I love this man. He exemplifies why I have respect for military service members, and can appreciate proper military training. There are rules to warfare. It's moving to see someone respect them; this is not something you get, or can expect, from conscript armies without proper NCO-derived chains of command.
    Other "armies" are chaos.
    Other "armies" take the most expeditious route.
    Other "armies" execute prisoners in ditches because it's quicker and easier than trying to keep them alive and fed.
    Which is a requirement for prisoners of war.
    You may be able to infer who I'm referring to, but it's the Russians. I have seen things of their actions which can not be un-seen. Things which eliminate hesitation in hypothetical future non-peaceful situations.
    Heck. It's not even the visual that sticks with me.
    It's the sound.

  • @Puzzoozoo
    @Puzzoozoo 10 месяцев назад +33

    Sniping i.e. the verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper". The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter". Is essentially hunting, and uses all the aspects of hunting, and the objective of the hunt is another person.

    • @coledrevenj
      @coledrevenj 10 месяцев назад +2

      No, no, no. "Sniper" is a term that originated in the 1830's when people competing in a timed Ebay auction would get shot down by a last second winning bid.

    • @Puzzoozoo
      @Puzzoozoo 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@coledrevenjThe earliest Ghillie suits were created by Scottish gamekeepers in the early 17th century in the Scottish Highlands. The Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits and in 1916 went on to become the British Army's first sniper unit. The Lovat Scouts were initially recruited from Scottish Highland estate workers, especially professional stalkers and gamekeepers. 😉

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад +1

      but what does the snipe taste like? Better taste like chicken to be worth this 250 year long hassle.

  • @eskibileyci198
    @eskibileyci198 10 месяцев назад +5

    no outro, no "please subscribe for the love of god".... just intro, facts, sponsor, even more facts and boom the end and other videos I can watch. just the way I like it. Subscribed...

  • @LapanConnor
    @LapanConnor 4 месяца назад +47

    Funny that this would come into my feed this week

    • @msimon6808
      @msimon6808 3 месяца назад

      In mine today 29July2024 1339z as I comment.

  • @pyssysankar1
    @pyssysankar1 10 месяцев назад +17

    Quality of your Sniper program is important. Finland won "European Best Sniper Team"-competition in 2023 and members of winning team didn't come from same unit nor did they any familiarization practice with each other.
    There must be good and uniform training program for them to work together right away that well.

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад

      sounds like they were doped with some good ole pervitin once again

  • @plasmaman9592
    @plasmaman9592 10 месяцев назад +15

    I have 2 sniper friends who have been teaching me stuff on camping/ hunting trips and it's very interesting. I wish I was good at all the things but I'm mostly good at shooting because I have a business selling targets and I shoot a few thousand rounds a month as a "business" experience You know, for durability testing of ar500 targets. Lol

  • @hashtagonist1330
    @hashtagonist1330 8 месяцев назад +1

    In a book I read, it was said that snipers actually mostly aim for the head, since they want to take down their target instantly, as described in the book that shooting them anywhere else, even in the heart, and they can still be a threat to friendlies even if only for 5 or more seconds.

  • @luckystriker7489
    @luckystriker7489 10 месяцев назад +60

    12:19 Ghillie suit pants don't have zippers. 12:31 Sniper pulls up his ghillie pant's zipper lol

    • @The_Judge300
      @The_Judge300 10 месяцев назад +6

      This is not the only "wrong" information in the video.
      Yes, at times a sniper can choose to use ghillie pants with buttons, but very often he uses one with zippers.

  • @ericcsuf
    @ericcsuf 10 месяцев назад +35

    First thing I click on when you appear in my feed. And always at least one good line. Favorites this time were snipers not buying at Target and flat earthers. Funniest and best researched channel on youtube. All stock footage, but it doesn't look like it.

  • @bobikdylan
    @bobikdylan 10 месяцев назад +2

    Another reason for a body shot is that two of the target's buddies might be taken out of the game temporarily to help him. Maybe does not apply to Russians.

  • @camdenmacleod16
    @camdenmacleod16 10 месяцев назад +15

    Breathing control isn't just for snipers. In the army, for an M16 even at 25m range you want to consistently shoot at a certain place in your breath, and having a calm heart rate is super important too.

    • @drd1924
      @drd1924 10 месяцев назад

      Well said, and shows experience

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад

      why the hell did our staff sergeant make us run 2 circles around the field at full load then after each non-hit

  • @minxythemerciless
    @minxythemerciless 10 месяцев назад +26

    The heartbeat thing is not as hard as you might think. The weapon naturally raises and falls with your pulse, so you simply pull the trigger when the sight point is lowest.

    • @sagaflamingwood2841
      @sagaflamingwood2841 10 месяцев назад

      Your heartbeat at ranges where you can control the POI is a non issue. Where your heart beating may come into affect is at ranges where your weapons can no longer accurately hit the target with all variables controlled.

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад

      havent seen my gun move a bit when its resting on my backpack.

  • @nechdaught3412
    @nechdaught3412 10 месяцев назад +6

    Before watching I’m gonna try and predict the answer:
    I’m guessing it’s a combination of factors;
    1. Most if not all soldiers in the modern era wear helmets that have been getting better and better as protection technology advances.
    2. The head is a smaller target than the rest of the body
    3. You don’t need to kill your enemies instantly on the battlefield, hell, you don’t even need to kill them necessarily. In war, the aim is to stop your enemy’s forces from doing what they set out to do, and violence is how you’ve chosen to do it. You just need to knock them down and make sure they stay down, and if they never get back up again, that’s just an added bonus. A suitably powerful bullet will take someone out of action if it hits just about any significant part of their body.

    • @Varaldar
      @Varaldar 8 месяцев назад +3

      there is no helmet that will stop a rifle round out of a sniper. and there likely wont be one. they are designed to stop shrapnel and blunt force mostly. a helmet that could effectively stop a sniper round would be heavy as fuck and even if it does stop the bullet dead it might still take you out of the fight as you now have a concussion or a cracked skull

  • @williamhardes8081
    @williamhardes8081 10 месяцев назад +7

    many ex-snipers suffer severe PTSD. it was explained to me by a sniper that the main cause for this is every single kill you make you see plainly, clearly, accurately and in high detail. most soldiers don't get this.

    • @pmp2559
      @pmp2559 10 месяцев назад +2

      My buddy has ptsd and his friend who was on a sniper team hung himself the visions kept haunting him. I don’t know to much about it they were Marines in Afghanistan. My friend is getting treatment but has to pay out of pocket, I find that highly disturbing too.

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад +1

      What about hunters then? They have to go over the mud to GET to their fresh kill, and gut it, then carry the bloody carcass back home, cook the shit out of the poor critter, and eat it and make preserved food out of the leftovers. You dont do that in sniper school or spetsnaz, not to iraqi civilians, not to the guys in your unit. Maybe you did it in stalingrad, eating frozen legs after the cat meat run out

    • @pmp2559
      @pmp2559 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@AremStefaniaK what are you trying to say? That hunters looking for food get ptsd also? Usually food doesn’t shoot back and this is a human that’s not a psychopath taking another human life. In America you may run into one of the guys family members, or see people like the ones you killed being your neighbor and you start to wonder was I the good guy or the bad guy if you are capable of putting yourself in their place. Not sure what you mean by eating legs and cat food

    • @williamhardes8081
      @williamhardes8081 8 месяцев назад +1

      what the? are you serious? hunters kill animals. not other human beings.@@AremStefaniaK

  • @jonnyblade3234
    @jonnyblade3234 10 месяцев назад +65

    For anyone curious about the the rifle that set the new record at 8:13, it's called the Lord of the Horizon/Horizon Lord. It's a rifle manufactured by the Ukrainian company Snipex. For the new record setting shot it's believed that the rifle was chambered in 12.7x114HL, a necked down version of the 14.5x114 cartridge. The rifle is a single shot (no magazine), bolt action and is approximately one meter in overall length.

    • @imjudeau2156
      @imjudeau2156 10 месяцев назад +16

      Only 1 meter? What are you smoking

    • @Crazzzycarrot-qo5wr
      @Crazzzycarrot-qo5wr 10 месяцев назад

      @@imjudeau2156 yeah wtf, 1 meter my ass

    • @miroslavhoudek7085
      @miroslavhoudek7085 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@imjudeau2156nothing, just 1 cm joint, that can't do no harm.

    • @mugnuz
      @mugnuz 10 месяцев назад

      they should sue spacex. or are they owned by the biggest snake oil salesman?

    • @mitko1955
      @mitko1955 10 месяцев назад +8

      @@imjudeau2156 Americans when they try to use the metric system:
      > It's pretty long
      > must be one meter in length!

  • @ED-es2qv
    @ED-es2qv 10 месяцев назад +1

    I was taught the bullet starts out slightly upward of level, so it's following a parabola. There's two places where the height will be correct, and one of them is the distance you sighted in at.

  • @xObscureMars
    @xObscureMars 10 месяцев назад +16

    Remember to left click to do a breath hold, so you can increase accuracy. Then look for a hit marker.

    • @Vittrich
      @Vittrich 10 месяцев назад +4

      What kind of psychopath are you that you hold breath with left click? With which button you shoot, Strg+F8?

    • @Scootermagoo
      @Scootermagoo 10 месяцев назад

      Left shift bub, you weirdos and mouse breath control need a lesson.

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад

      @@Vittrichzomg F8 fire button is for kingpins, right next to screenshot F9 and Quicksave F7 so you can just fiercely smash the 3 buttons with the bottom of fist

  • @kogasoldier9379
    @kogasoldier9379 10 месяцев назад +9

    “This is why flat earthers don’t make good snipers” damn. Shots fired.

    • @hoze1235
      @hoze1235 10 месяцев назад +1

      No need to adjust shot if the earth is flat 🤭🤭

  • @co2_os
    @co2_os 4 месяца назад +122

    Bro missed the only important video.

    • @lash-man-sleeping5855
      @lash-man-sleeping5855 4 месяца назад +3

      Lol

    • @Fat_
      @Fat_ 4 месяца назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 4 месяца назад

      Bro was a bad shooter, didn't even get accepted into the gun club. But was so full of himself that he wanted to prove that he's a good sniper instead of improving his skills. Probably dismissed the Spherical Earth theory as well.
      In the German army (Bundeswehr), recruits have to hit targets at a longer distance, with a standard G36 rifle (which does fire from a closed bolt, so it's reasonably accurate). Bro was on easy mode. And while this video did mention camouflage or concealment, it showed snipers who poke the barrel out of windows. Bro was, apparently, on the wrong side of the roof and had already been seen by the counter-snipers. I guess he wanted to make sure that he got killed on the spot to avoid getting arrested.

    • @msimon6808
      @msimon6808 3 месяца назад +1

      @@klausstock8020 A guy with a scope on his rifle took the first shot (and missed).

  • @ireallychosethisname
    @ireallychosethisname 10 месяцев назад +8

    Firstly, awesome video and i learned a lot. One small critique.
    "consumer ones only go out to 100m"
    Inaccurate, or else i have stolen military equipment (i dont i bought it at a shop). If i recall, this model loses accuracy at 700m or yards roughly. Remember when i bought it, dude said it was plus or minus 20 yards and gets uncertain near 7-800 yards, which matches the tech specs.

  • @marfmarfalot5193
    @marfmarfalot5193 10 месяцев назад +20

    Thing is I’ve done the calculation for a 1km/s bullet from h= 1 meter and the coriolis effect makes it go roughly 2cm to the side… seems somewhat negligible. Whats more important is wind. Wind is (I havent done the calculation) likely 10-50 times stronger

    • @MGSLurmey
      @MGSLurmey 5 месяцев назад

      Which direction were you firing? Directly east or west will push the round up or down, whereas directly north or south will have the highest effect pushing the round left or right of the target.

    • @PalleHellemann
      @PalleHellemann 4 месяца назад

      I haven't made the calculations yet, but I also thought that the ambient temperature, humidity, temperature of the barrel and the ammunition, shooting uphill or downhill, high pressure or low pressure and shooting position etc must be much much more influential.

    • @Georgios-ft5nm
      @Georgios-ft5nm 3 месяца назад

      Isn‘t the distance missing in your calculation?

    • @marfmarfalot5193
      @marfmarfalot5193 3 месяца назад

      @@MGSLurmey fire directly south

    • @bbivens8263
      @bbivens8263 3 месяца назад

      Spin drift matters more, know your ballistics. Air temperature greatly affects air density, more than barometric pressure and humidity. Wind is always a tough call, it can change greatly between you and the target, both velocity, clock, and direction. Wind from the right will raise your bullet, from the left it will drop your bullet. Don`t know of any left hand twist rifles, but it would be backwards.

  • @fr00t_tea89
    @fr00t_tea89 4 месяца назад +3

    Snipers dont aim for the head because they don't realize how goated the 1.5x xp multiplier is
    And they dont realize that in order to get the gold camo, you need 250 headshot kills

  • @allstarwoo4
    @allstarwoo4 10 месяцев назад +14

    Snipers can go for "head shots" but there are a factors to consider. The main one is the caliber they are using and the amount of armor they are using. Generally speaking most body armor used in war or battle can handle at least 1 small rifle round requiring a follow up shot which is not really advisable for a sniper. A "headshot" is not even a head shot really it's more of neck shot. The target area being the top lip to the neck. The idea being a clean shot in that area will more than likely kill you target. Because it's technically possible to survive a body shot unlikely yes but again when you can't take a follow up shot it matters.

    • @mugnuz
      @mugnuz 10 месяцев назад +2

      well a wounded soldier takes at least one or two mates to recover and more care. i guess thats actual the biggest reason...

    • @The_Judge300
      @The_Judge300 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@mugnuz
      This is a VERY long lived myth.
      This is not used anymore and has not for very many years.
      It is true that this was a marksman/sniper doctrine many years ago to wound as many enemies as possible on the battlefield to bind up as many resources as possible.
      They have stopped that very many years ago and was not a part of my sniper training many years ago.

    • @The_Judge300
      @The_Judge300 10 месяцев назад +1

      This is totally correct and it is amazing how so many still believe that snipers try to injure as many as possible to bind up resources.
      As a sniper you want to kill the enemy as fast as possible.
      And there are multiple reasons for that.
      If by chance you are using a lighter cartridge and/or the enemy uses body armor, you for sure try to take neck shots as this part has no body armor and it doesn't move as much as the head does.
      If you on the other hand use a 338 Lapua Magnum or a 338 Norma Magnum, that is my preferred cartridge, then you always take center torso shots when you can as body armor is not much of a help against that.
      I have never seen anyone survive a 338 to the torso.

    • @MangaGamified
      @MangaGamified 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@The_Judge300 So how do they help their injured ally? or is it such an effective strategy they are using information warfare to not use such tactic?

    • @allstarwoo4
      @allstarwoo4 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@MangaGamified that's kind of the sad part you don't. Don't get me wrong if a solider has chance to save another's life they will but if doing so will risk you or your squads lives it unfortunately might be best to let them die. I'm not saying people like it but if saving an injured soldiers life means risking the rest of your squad it's not worth it. Now with that being said the times that they risk their lives and succeed it's great. Also most field medicine is meant to stabilize a patient so that they can get a real doctor in a secure environment.

  • @angryeliteultragree6329
    @angryeliteultragree6329 10 месяцев назад +83

    Word of advice for my civilian snipers. Mud, fully disguises you from thermals. The predator movie is entirely correct.

    • @CaliberW
      @CaliberW 10 месяцев назад +3

      Proned in the mud with your rifle

    • @Strykenine
      @Strykenine 10 месяцев назад +23

      Getting the mud is the easy part. Screaming like Ahhhnold to draw your opponent to battle, that's hard.

    • @outofturn331
      @outofturn331 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@StrykenineGET TO THE YOU KNOW WHAT

    • @difficultkunt4050
      @difficultkunt4050 10 месяцев назад +2

      Y'know it's a movie right.!
      Joke 😂

    • @KoRntech
      @KoRntech 10 месяцев назад +1

      I saw Corridor Crew did a test on that about a month ago, it did pretty good.

  • @MDR5213
    @MDR5213 2 месяца назад +4

    تصحيح قناص مجاهد عراقي وليس متمرد تحية للعراق من الجزائر

  • @JAB6322
    @JAB6322 10 месяцев назад +15

    There was an incident 5 years ago here in my country 🇵🇭 in a city called Tanauan where its mayor got shot 200m away at the city hall during a flag ceremony.
    The police found the suspected sniper's nest and whoever did it seems to be familiar with the tactics mentioned in the video such as: Concealing himself using the vegetation around his spot, and is familiar with stalking due to the fact he was never caught and fled the scene after taking the shot.
    Scary to think about it if the assassin was ex-military and was gifted with such skills.

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 10 месяцев назад

      Does that comment include any non-fiction?

    • @joashchechet
      @joashchechet 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@bunk95he just gave you the time frame, country, and city. I believe looking it up for yourself before you start making snarky comments shouldn't be that hard

    • @AshleyBlackwater
      @AshleyBlackwater 10 месяцев назад

      @@joashchechet fr, you can literally highlight the part of the comment "Tanauan where its mayor got shot" right click search with google and its the first result

  • @065Tim
    @065Tim 10 месяцев назад +23

    Good to have seen this channel start as "fun facts" and has grown into a serious documentary channel.
    Keep it up!

    • @AremStefaniaK
      @AremStefaniaK 8 месяцев назад

      i cannot unsee the palindrome in "fun facts" of "fuc fans" thx to you

  • @niczim123
    @niczim123 3 месяца назад +5

    12:12 "The snipers don't buy all their supplies and clothes from *_Target_* ." Ohh I see what you did there! 😉😂

    • @Kevinator1996
      @Kevinator1996 2 месяца назад

      aww man how tf did I not notice this during the video!!

  • @InvadersDie
    @InvadersDie 10 месяцев назад +12

    0:30 "and why their pants don't have zippers" *shows image of guy wearing pants with zippers*

    • @Opih72
      @Opih72 10 месяцев назад +2

      i was going to comment this xD

  • @hilliard665
    @hilliard665 10 месяцев назад +7

    The trainees sneaking up on the COs reminded me of when we learnt to ghost walk in cadets at the Enoggera army barracks (Australia) and had to all sneak up on the military guys and girls that taught us, some of us got pretty close but no one reached the objective 😂

  • @4Core100
    @4Core100 4 месяца назад +19

    Now we know...

  • @simonelollo7619
    @simonelollo7619 10 месяцев назад +9

    The accuracy precautions you see here are also applied in olympic target shooting.

  • @HurBenny
    @HurBenny 10 месяцев назад +4

    The addition of grown up measurements on the bottom right is greatly appreciated, my narrative inclined fellow.

    • @hiddenguy67
      @hiddenguy67 9 месяцев назад

      ?

    • @jerrybrim5915
      @jerrybrim5915 9 месяцев назад

      @@hiddenguy67 He's referring to metric, otherwise known as the measuring system that didn't make it to the moon.

    • @hiddenguy67
      @hiddenguy67 9 месяцев назад

      @@jerrybrim5915 o

  • @FutureAIDev2015
    @FutureAIDev2015 7 месяцев назад +2

    That's interesting how the US medic put aside the fact that the sniper was an enemy who had just tried to kill him, and treated his would have been killer anyway. After all his job in the military was to prevent people from dying, and I'm guessing that it doesn't matter what side they're on, his job is still his job.

    • @nayon9379
      @nayon9379 4 месяца назад

      🟩THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the Salvation of the last day that Christ brought in the second and last incarnation of the His new and holy name"
      (If I lay wealth in front of you and you can choose freely knowing that I will not judge you, the majority will choose wealth and abandon the truth. The good among you will let go of riches but will be reluctant to choose the truth, while the middle one will grasp the riches in one hand and the truth in the other. This way, won't your true colors dominate? In the contest between positive and negative, black and white, you are aware of the choices made between family and God, children and God, peace and disruption, wealth and poverty, status and mediocrity, what is supported rather than rejected, and others. Between the quiet family rather than the broken one, you chose the former, and without hesitation; between wealth and duty, you again chose the former, be it powerlessness to return to the shore; between luxury and poverty, you chose the former, in betweenof children, wife and Me, you chose the former; and between opinion and reality, you again chose the former. I am truly amazed at the resistance of your hearts that it will be softened. However, you continue to seek the things that belong to darkness and evil, and refuse to loosen your grip. If you were elected again, what would be your position? Is it still the same? What you will still give Me is failure and great sadness? Do you still not realize how to console My heart? Will you submit to My words or labor over them? My day has been laid out before your eyes and what you face is a new life and a new beginning. That is, this is the last stage. When the day comes, you will understand the true meaning of this beginning, so together we will walk beyond it and begin the next end. I also hope to put into oblivion the events of your past, one by one, even if it is very difficult to do. Let the future replace the past and let go of the shadows of your past in favor of your true self today. It means that I will bother you again to choose and so I will know to whom you are loyal. 🙏)
      Almighty God said
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  • @mitchmahoney5586
    @mitchmahoney5586 10 месяцев назад +6

    I've watched a few of your videos.
    You do great work and explain it in a way that even non veterans can understand.
    Airborne All the Way 💪

  • @IAmTheAce5
    @IAmTheAce5 10 месяцев назад +18

    I’ve also heard sniping as ‘using math to make someone _else’s_ head explode’

    • @L2EAG
      @L2EAG 10 месяцев назад

      damn thats crazy

    • @IAmTheAce5
      @IAmTheAce5 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@L2EAG in video games, it’s also called a ‘point and click adventure’

  • @sinuspi1
    @sinuspi1 9 месяцев назад +1

    - Private Jones, I didn't see you on the camouflage drills today!
    - Thank you, sir!

  • @anthonydowns9632
    @anthonydowns9632 10 месяцев назад +36

    I had my basics down way before I joined the Army in 2007. Maaan I had never been on those kinds of ranges in civilian life like I did in bct and after. Never missed a 300m shot and sometimes I could see the round/vapor trail fall into the center mass of the target. Not always but a lot of times I could see it.

    • @CornPop2
      @CornPop2 10 месяцев назад +1

      hawkeye

    • @steeldriver1776
      @steeldriver1776 10 месяцев назад +3

      I didn't learn distance shooting in the military. Standard stuff. Now that I'm out and the world is getting more dangerous, I'm practicing. I hope to get up to a consistent 500m shot this year.

    • @Shoelessjoe78
      @Shoelessjoe78 10 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@steeldriver1776depends on your branch. I routinely shot at 500m with open sights in the 90s with the Marine Corp. Down to 300m max and optics years later in the Army.
      It's definitely doable even without sights.

    • @argh100100
      @argh100100 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@steeldriver1776 Practicing for what exactly?

    • @steeldriver1776
      @steeldriver1776 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@Shoelessjoe78thanks. I want 500m in a 5” cluster/grouping.

  • @spocktn8337
    @spocktn8337 10 месяцев назад +5

    This brings back so many happy memories from my childhood and youth. Growing up in a military village i start shooting at 7 years old and hiked and crawled around a lot in the forest and doing the military obstical courses just for fun and prepare for our military service. If you asked me for a head shot at age 11 and 300 meters away i would ask you what eye to put it in, and that was without scope.

    • @Mutrax4706
      @Mutrax4706 10 месяцев назад +1

      not sure whether thats impressive or concerning

    • @spocktn8337
      @spocktn8337 10 месяцев назад

      @@Mutrax4706 A bit of both my friend. Don't be a Russian and come invading my country that is for sure.

  • @delowe
    @delowe 3 месяца назад +1

    For a military sniper, what was written is correct.
    However a police sniper is often dealing with a hostage and in such a case, a head shot renders the target instantaneous death which would save the hostages life.

  • @Ognjen19
    @Ognjen19 10 месяцев назад +16

    flatearthers are not good snipers , nicely put :)

    • @ddegn
      @ddegn 10 месяцев назад +2

      They're bad at all things involving geometry.

  • @Donuts_random_stuff
    @Donuts_random_stuff 10 месяцев назад +5

    I love shooting and firearms and have always been interested in sniping, I got an air rifle last year and after only putting 500-700 rounds through it over the span of 2 weeks I now push my rifle to more than double its intended range.
    My Weihrauch hw57 puts out 16 joules and most people and the internet recommended me the maximum range is 40-55 yards, I shoot 132 yards in mild 10-15km/h (6-9mph) wind. My dream job is long haul pilot but if I fail at that sniper is one of my back up options.
    My passion for shooting also is one of the reasons I wanna one day move to the US, here in Europe I am not getting to shoot any kind of firearm what doesn’t help with me wanting to be able to push myself to great distances. I live in Bulgaria where I can maximum have 24 joule air rifles and otherwise I have to register it, make ballistic fingerprints be 18 or older (I am almost 18 and I had my air rifle when I was 16)
    and some other stuff
    But sniper seems like a great job (except for the killing people but it’s to protect fellow soldiers and the country so it belongs to the job)

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  10 месяцев назад +4

      You could just do scouting. USMC now has scouting platoons that don’t do any sniping.

  • @justhugo516
    @justhugo516 8 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for making a 18 minutes video about a thing you were explaining for 40 seconds

  • @benjaminfraeyman
    @benjaminfraeyman 10 месяцев назад +5

    Thanks for annotating the unitconversions ❤️

  • @leighchamberlain25
    @leighchamberlain25 10 месяцев назад +9

    They don't buy their clothes from Target 😂😂keep up the great puns mate

  • @TailorMadeRetro
    @TailorMadeRetro 4 месяца назад +1

    They say judge others by how they treat their enemy, this shit brought tears to my eyes, courageous man.

  • @jsphfalcon
    @jsphfalcon 10 месяцев назад +4

    Now add remote sniping platforms where there is no human in the area to give out its position. I hate to say it but the era of the sniper might be coming to an end. In place would be a team that would install the platform and leave.

    • @greyfells2829
      @greyfells2829 10 месяцев назад +2

      An autonomous system like that is only good in a few situations.
      Being a sniper is only partially about shooting. They're highly accomplished and skilled cross-country hikers, and master scouts. Getting into position is just as important as shooting. A human doesn't need a battery to function, just MREs. A human can move instantly on their own, an autonomous system needs to be disassembled and assembled, powered, and maintained.
      Boots holding guns will likely never go out of fashion, because humans are cheap and versatile. Autonomous systems will also enter doctrine, but not as total replacements.

  • @fredford7642
    @fredford7642 10 месяцев назад +11

    Thank you for a very informative and educational video.
    I have been a target shooter for 50+ years and thought I knew much about the sniping activity, now I know how much I did not know, and I'm sure there is much more to learn.
    Thank you again!

  • @aesirgaming1014
    @aesirgaming1014 9 месяцев назад

    Generally speaking, it's more effective to injure than to kill an enemy. This also contributes to the preference for shooting center of mass, which has a higher injury potential and hit potential than a headshot. Killing an enemy soldier will spur the unit under attack to aggressively hunt the sniper. Injuring an enemy soldier will often turn at least part of the unit into a casualty treatment/evacuation element, which effectively removes them from the battle. In some militaries, such as the US military, once an area is secured, casualty evacuation often becomes a priority. Therefore, a sniper who can injure a soldier, then exfil may have effectively terminated an entire squad or platoon's mission.

  • @LoliPolice-bf7mw
    @LoliPolice-bf7mw 4 месяца назад +12

    Somebody didn't take notes

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier 10 месяцев назад +4

    I used to go to paintball events with an older friend of mine. He made a ghillie suit. All the kids wanted to get him, but he really was good. He was like the like the Predator; he would disappear into the forest.

  • @crazycloaked
    @crazycloaked 9 месяцев назад +2

    PTSD MASSIVELY. 0:02

  • @0v3rwh3lm3d
    @0v3rwh3lm3d 4 месяца назад +10

    I wonder if YT recommended that to bro. apparently not

  • @TheBlackManMythLegend
    @TheBlackManMythLegend 10 месяцев назад +5

    its more like launching an arrow with a bow than firing with a laser.

  • @Karuyine
    @Karuyine 10 месяцев назад +1

    "can you see the sniper?" yeah i can totally see through the grass because theres no other way to see the snipers because you couldn't even see the grass they had on themselves

  • @shaundenehy4681
    @shaundenehy4681 10 месяцев назад +4

    Snipers have a saying, you can run but you'll just die tired.

  • @MisterIvyMike
    @MisterIvyMike 10 месяцев назад +16

    I'm a german marksman. But as I saw the soldiers lying for hours in the snow I knew I would be freeze to death in under 30 minutes. Not my job... 😆

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 10 месяцев назад +1

      As a canadian I thought, jesus those ghillie suits must be hot!

    • @adamkane7513
      @adamkane7513 10 месяцев назад

      German military you say?
      Even you must admit that starting _two_ World Wars in the same century was a little excessive.

    • @13Badseed
      @13Badseed 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@adamkane7513 He wasn't even born, what does it have to do with him?

    • @Hosenbund1
      @Hosenbund1 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@13Badseed some people just suffer from their mental disabilities, especially on the internet

  • @mikatu
    @mikatu 4 месяца назад +2

    I don't think those new drones would be a match to White Death. The guy even had snow in his mouth, and you spent the entire day crawling in the snow. He was colder than winter!

  • @tmada8270
    @tmada8270 4 месяца назад +13

    Am I the only one here after yesterday?

  • @camdenmacleod16
    @camdenmacleod16 10 месяцев назад +4

    2:45 did not know drake was a sniper

    • @ordinal-scrapz
      @ordinal-scrapz 6 месяцев назад

      Nah, he looks more like that one dude from kay and peele

  • @macforme
    @macforme 9 месяцев назад +1

    That is the best and most adorable spotter (17:28) in the whole video. 👍

  • @kentharris7427
    @kentharris7427 4 месяца назад +8

    Do you know how to determine if a sniper likes you? He misses you! 🙂

    • @PalleHellemann
      @PalleHellemann 4 месяца назад +1

      Made me think about the shooter who pinched Trumps ear...

  • @28ebdh3udnav
    @28ebdh3udnav 10 месяцев назад +4

    It is said that the sniper Carlos Hancock, I think I spelled it correctly, was bitten by ants, spiders, etc, while waiting for the Nva general to come into his cross hairs when he took them out

    • @maxlutz3674
      @maxlutz3674 10 месяцев назад +3

      It´s Hathcock. It´s also said that he did not bother to get the pants open for a relief on that mission. Pants can be washed when you make it back to base. The chance for getting the HVT after detection is slim.

    • @nobodynoone2500
      @nobodynoone2500 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@maxlutz3674 A few deployed infantry said that they had similarly. In the heat of battle, you worry about it later.

    • @maxlutz3674
      @maxlutz3674 10 месяцев назад

      @@nobodynoone2500 It´s about priorities. Your battle buddies surely will not appreciate when you take a leak break instead of providing desparately needed covering fire or keeping up with the formation..

  • @Why-D
    @Why-D 10 месяцев назад +5

    "That is, why flatearther don't make good snipers!"
    Made my day! 🤣