On June 27, 1874, Buffalo Hunter Billy Dixon killed a Comanche leader during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls from 1,538 yards. In fact, Hathcock’s shot beat a record that had stood for nearly 100 years.
The weapons had been used as sniper weapons in Korea and Vietnam before, but no one else made a shot at nearly the distance of Hathcock’s. Hathcock wasn’t the only sniper to use the M2 instead of a traditional sniper rifle. Since then, at least three other snipers have beaten Hathcock’s distance. The record stood until March 2002 when Canadian sniper Master Cpl. Hathcock’s first round disabled the bicycle, the second struck the enemy soldier in the chest.Īt the time this was the longest sniper kill in history, and it was made with a machine gun in single shot mode. 50-caliber machine gun stabilized by a sandbag-supported M3 tripod, Hathcock engaged a Vietcong pushing a weapon-laden bicycle at 2,500 yards. Michael Lee Lanning described it:įiring from a hillside position using an Unertl 8X scope on a. In the book, “ Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam,” Army Col. Carlos Hathcock III is a legend in both the sniper and Marine Corps communities for a number of reasons. Sniper Rifles: From the 19th to the 21st Century. The one-round war: USMC scout-snipers in Vietnam. Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values. Add to Cart 1,295.00 Unertl 8X Target Scope Unertl 8X Target Scope 3/4' tube end caps standard mounts 21 3/. Stalkers and Shooters: A History of Snipers. Unertl 8x Target Calibrated Head Scope SOLD - 995 Unertl 8x Target Calibrated Head Scope 1 1/4 inch cal. Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Very sophisticated optical/mechanical instrumentation for government. MST-100 10× for 7.62×51mm (Used by the Marine Corps, FBI & Canada). Hunting Scopes "Falcon", "Hawk" & "Condor", 2 3/4×, 4× & 6× respectively. The last John Unertl, John Robert Unertl, after leaving the company worked his way up to Division President of the optical instrument division of Leitz. And while the company was well known for its rifle scopes, it’s major revenue came from high end optical systems made for various branches of government including very sophisticated optical/mechanical instrumentation, optics for military jet gunsights, fire control optics, and wind tunnel instrumentation ( Schlieren photography systems for the Naval Surface Weapon Center in White Oak, MD). started the company and ran it until his death. There were actually three successive "John Unertls". By 2008 the company had closed its doors. By 2006 the company had begun marketing firearms in addition to their line of scopes including a civilian copy of the Marine Corps MEU(SOC) pistol and the M40A3 Sniper Rifle. In the early 2000s the Marine Corps began phasing out Unertl Scopes in favor of other scopes like the Schmidt & Bender 3–12×50 Police Marksman II LP. Rocky Greene) and the headquarters was moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2002 the company was purchased by 21st Century Technology, Inc. The company was most notable for its MST-100 (7.62mm) and MST-150 (.50 caliber) 10× scope used by the USMC Scout-Sniper program and the first scope to use a Mil-Dot reticle. John Unertl founded the John Unertl Optical Company in 1934 and the company manufactured military sniper scopes during World War II. The most iconic sniper rifle of the Second World War, the USMC M1903A1 8x Unertl equipped sniper rifle was the backbone of Marine snipers in WWII and Korea.
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