Thread: Ukrainian Hunter uses his hunting rifle on Russians.

Originally Posted by XR500

Given the preponderance of body armour on today's battlefield, I would hope its in a 30 cal of some flavour for the availability of fmj and armour piercing projos.

It appears to be fitted with a suppressor, which is smart.

The term 'sniper' gets bandied about far too frequently. Most are referring to someone who can shoot accurately ( a marksman). A true sniper's skillsets are only about 30% being a very good shot. The rest is attributed to fieldcraft and personal characteristics

If he is wearing armour , just shoot him in the nuts . I bet that would frighten them more than getting killed .

I'm thinking a Tikka and good luck to him may he hold off the the invaders.

Originally Posted by scotty

50 cal phhhhtttt
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the finns had the right idea

20mm Lahti

I reckon that if you are defending your country you use whatever you have at hand..... Look how many times troops were pinned down in Afghanistan by Taliban fighters firing down on them from long range with 303's and Mosins...

Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick

Any spot the wood/blued rifle in the background with battue style iron sights?

Apparently a whole lot of M14s were shipped to Ukraine from a bunch of euro stocks.

Trouble with those big hitters, is it makes hit and run tactics more difficult. The slighty smaller but more man portable calibers could arguably cause more casualties.
And the firing signature is a lot less. But the heavy cal sniper rifles do have their place.

20mm phhhttttt!

Originally Posted by Allizdog

Trouble with those big hitters, is it makes hit and run tactics more difficult. The slighty smaller but more man portable calibers could arguably cause more casualties.

It sounds like that is exactly what the Ukrainian special forces are doing well behind the Russian's front line. Would be a helluva scary place to be. Especially with the number of drones being used for forward observation. I felt for these 2 isolate Russian soldiers in a scraped out hollow with a Ukrainian drone hovering above them. Sheesh..... "Two Russian Soldiers hide in a foxhole. Waves at Drone Camera"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIkk1jHVCY

Originally Posted by 55six

We received a request for $US100,000 worth of thermal scopes from the Ukraine this week.

and a fella would guess you shipped them off at cost plus SFA too???..... if so good on you.

Looks like a Tikka T3 Tactical to me, not think the Super Varmint came in anything other than Stainless.
The T3 Tac came in 300wm I believe but is probably 308.
Scope is a PST Gen 2, in MRAD so a man of good taste.

Has a non-swivel Harris thats installed backwards, maybe we could crowd fund him a better bipod.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

and a fella would guess you shipped them off at cost plus SFA too???..... if so good on you.

It’s a bit more complex than that with MFAT involvement etc, but end result is they are dealing direct with manufacturer.

Originally Posted by Beetroot

Looks like a Tikka T3 Tactical to me, not think the Super Varmint came in anything other than Stainless.
The T3 Tac came in 300wm I believe but is probably 308.
Scope is a PST Gen 2, in MRAD so a man of good taste.

Has a non-swivel Harris thats installed backwards, maybe we could crowd fund him a better bipod.

And some ammo, I wish him well and hope he fucks up those who are fucking his country.

there is a video somewhere where the guy talks about it. Its a Tikka tactical.

Have seen the tikka / vortex combo in pictures of other Ukrainian snipers/ marksman this last week over here.


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In this New York Times video (at about 35sec) they are using a Khales scope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCldVMfFim8