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86-year-old veteran sniper attempts impossible shot - Kiwi Report

86-year-old veteran sniper attempts impossible shot


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World War II veteran will get the shot of a lifetime – shooting at 1,000 yards. Will he make the shot?
The invention of the gun changed the face of warfare forever. However, the first guns could not shoot very far and were not very accurate. In fact, even up until the American Revolution in 1776, muskets were more or less smooth on the inside, and the bullets themselves were little more than little balls of lead.
However, after centuries of advances in bullet technology (resulting in the oblong bullet we know to day) in addition to the advantages of boring a rifle barrel (which results in spiraled grooves on the inside of the barrel enabling the bullet to spin), by the 1820s, it was finally possible to shoot where you aim with an extremely high amount of accuracy.
This led to the creation of snipers. Snipers were expert marksmen who were considered to be able to hit anything they aimed at. The word Sniper derives from the practice of expert British marksmen shooting the Snipe bird in British India. Snipe are birds known for being small, fast, and incredibly difficult to see and shoot. From then on, snipers began to have more and more of an integral role in warfare, really becoming important during the Second World War. In those days, commanders really just took and eagle eyed, calm individuals with lots of hunting experience and gave them a standard issue rifle with a nicer scope.
Now, there are high powered sniper rifles which can hit targets over a mile away. At this range, even the curvature of the earth must be taken into account when lining up the sights. One World War II sniper who fought at the Battle of the Bulge wanted to know what it would be like to be able to shoot this far. He wanted to see if, after 70 years, he would be able to hit a target at over half a mile. It turns out that…



[post_page_title]Ted Gundy in basic[/post_page_title]
Ted Gundy was just like any other 19 year old who had just gotten out of high school in the early 1940s in Missouri. He studied hard, and he made sure that he was physically fit. This was because the United States was in the middle of fighting World War II, and he had to go off to fight for freedom from the Axis powers. He was handed a rifle, and, with the woods of Missouri flowing through his veins, became the top marksman in his class.
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