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Old 09-05-2005, 05:50 AM   #91
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yeah it's nice to read an interview like that...........
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Old 09-05-2005, 09:19 AM   #92
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Very interesting indeed.
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Old 09-05-2005, 09:57 AM   #93
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Good info, and the pictures are great, I really like the top one.
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That was a very interesting read. Snipers are often only remembered as people left behind to cause havoc. But they really were a vital outfit to any offence, or defence.
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Old 09-05-2005, 03:36 PM   #95
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And they rarely make themselves available for interviews.
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Some action pics of german snipers in the Balkans, about 1944.





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Nice pics. If I ever joined the army id wanna be a Sniper.
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Old 09-05-2005, 06:40 PM   #98
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Its a lonely life.

Nice pics.
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A very interesting post, CB. Thanks.
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Interesting pictures. The top one looks posed as they are too clean and the spotter is in the way of the shooter. He's doesn't look settled for the shot.
The second one looks the business, but its the third that interests me. The rifle doesn't have a scope (which wasn't a must have) and the spotter is too high, neither is he camouflaged at all. Its almost certain he would give the position away.
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Old 09-05-2005, 08:02 PM   #101
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They may have been propoganda photos.
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Probably.

Here is some more pics about Waffen SS snipers.

Leningradfront, December 1942, Legion Niederlande( dutch Waffen SS):





Color photo taken from Signal magazine:



German Waffen SS officers equipped with a scoped rifle (I am not sure is those are snipers) East Prussia 1944. The rifle seems to be a K-98K with small telescopic Zielfernrohr 41 or Zf 41 with a zoom factor of 1.5.

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Old 09-07-2005, 02:57 PM   #103
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Great pics I really like the colored one.
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The Germans had a number of Sniper rifles but in my view the SMLE No 4 Mk 1(T) was the best sniper rifle of the war. Re barelled with the 7.62 they were in use until the early 80's with the British Army as the L42.

I used the L42 a couple of times and found it very easy to shoot. The second time I used it I averaged 86 at ranges up to 900 yards. Which for someone who had only shot .22 up to 100 yards till that time, shows how forgiving it it was.
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Old 09-07-2005, 04:31 PM   #105
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I know it was the not the best, but I really enjoy the 98 Mauser as a Sniper. I have enjoyed shooting the ones that me and my friends own.
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