10.Thomas Plunkett
died in 1851

Plunkett was an Irish soldier in the British 95th Rifles. What makes him one of the greats is that he shot a very impressive French general, Auguste-Marie-François Colbert. During the battle at Cacabelos during the retreat from Monroe in 1809, Plunkett, using a Baker rifle, fired at the French general at a distance of about 600 meters. Given the incredible inaccuracy of rifles in the early 1800s, this was either a very impressive feat or a great fluke. Well, Plunkett, not wanting his comrades in his army to think he was a bit lucky, decided to fire again before returning to his line. Then he reloaded his weapon and aimed once more, this time at the greater trumpet that had come to the general’s aid. When this shot also hit its intended target, proving that Plunkett is just a badass marksman, he looked back to see the shocked faces of the others in the 95th Rifles. Just for comparison, the British soldiers were all armed with “Brown Bess moskets” and trained to shoot a body of men from 50 meters. Plunkett did 12 times that distance. Twice!

9.Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney
1949-

103 Confirmed Kills

Mawhinney was an avid hunter as a child and joined the Marine Corps in 1967. He served in the United States Marine Corps during Vietnam and holds the record for confirmed Navy sniper kills, surpassing that of the legendary sniper Carlos Hathcock. In just 16 months, he killed 103 enemies, and the military considered another 216 deaths likely, just because it was too risky at the time to search the bodies for documents. When he left the marines, he did not tell anyone about his role during the conflict, and only a few fellow marines knew of his assignments. Almost 20 years passed before someone wrote a book detailing his incredible sniper skills. Mawhinney was left anonymous because of this and became a teacher at sniper schools. He was once quoted as saying, “It was the ultimate hunting trip: one man hunting another man who was hunting me. Don’t talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they do not defend themselves with rifles and scopes. Simply I loved it. I ate it “. A routinely lethal shot from ranges between 300 and 800 yards, Mawhinney had confirmed kills of over 1000 yards, making him one of the best snipers of the Vietnam War.

8.Chris Kyle
April 8, 1974 – February 2, 2013

150 Confirmed Kills:

A Texas-born Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle is probably the best known person on this list due to his 2012 autobiography American Sniper and the subsequent 2015 film of the same title directed by Clint Eastwood in which Bradley played Kyle. Cooper, and the tragic circumstances of his death. The exact number of confirmed murders he committed in Iraq has been debated, but is around 150; he estimates to have committed another 100 unconfirmed murders. He took the title for the highest number of deaths by an American sniper from Waldron (see below). He was awarded the Silver Star, four Bronze Stars with “V” devices, a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and many personal and unit awards. Like Hathcock, the enemy had a nickname for Kyle. They called him “Al-Shaitan Ramadi”, which means “The Devil of Ramadi”. They placed a bounty on his head that continued to increase until it reached $ 80,000. Among the United States Army, including the Marines he was tasked with protecting, he became known simply as “The Legend.” The moniker started among Kyle’s fellow SEALs after he took a year off to train snipers in Fallujah and, as is known, fired a 2,100-yard shot that killed an insurgent sniper targeting US military personnel on the outskirts. from Sadr City in 2008. Kyle said it was “a simple act of luck.” After four tours of duty in Iraq, he had been shot twice and survived six improvised explosive device attacks. He retired from the military in 2009. In 2013, Kyle was tragically murdered along with his friend, Chad Littlefield, at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas. The man who killed them, Eddie Ray Routh, was a United States Marine with PTSD. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders.

7.Rob Furlong
1976-

A former Canadian Forces corporal, Furlong holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in history at 1.51 miles or 2,430 meters. That’s the length of about 26 soccer fields. This amazing feat occurred in 2002 when he was involved in Operation Anaconda. His sniper team consisted of 2 corporals and 3 master corporals. When a three-man Al-Qaeda weapons team moved to a position on the mountainside, he took aim. Furlong was armed with a 50 caliber McMillan Brothers Tac-50 rifle and loaded with very low resistance A-MAX bullets. He fired and missed. His second shot hit the enemy’s backpack on his back. He had already fired the third shot at him when the second hit, but now the enemy knew he was being attacked. The time in the air for each bullet was approximately 3 seconds due to the immense distance, long enough for an enemy to take cover. However, the stunned militant realized what was happening just in time to fire the third shot to the chest.

6.Vasily Zaytsev
March 23, 1915 – December 15, 1991

242 confirmed kills

Zaytsev is also a well-known sniper, thanks to the movie Enemy At The Gates. It’s a great movie and I wish I could say that it’s all true. However, the truth only goes as far as the Battle of Stalingrad. In real life, there was no Nazi counter-sniper specialist. Well, not to the extent shown in the movie. This is the truth. Zaytsev was born in Yeleninskoye and grew up in the Ural Mountains. His last name means “hare”. Before Stalingrad, he served as an employee in the Soviet Navy. But after reading about the conflict in the city, he volunteered for the front line. He served in the 1047 Rifle Regiment. Zaytsev ran a sniper school at the Metiz factory. The cadets he trained were called Zaichata, which means “Leverets” (Baby Hares). This was the beginning of the sniper movement in the 62nd Army. It is estimated that the snipers he trained killed more than 3,000 enemy soldiers. Zaytsev himself made 242 confirmed kills between October 1942 and January 1943, but the actual number is probably closer to 500. I know I said there was no counter-sniper, but there was Erwin Konig. It was alleged that he was a highly skilled Wehrmacht sniper. Zaytsev claimed in his memoirs that the duel took place over a period of three days in the ruins of Stalingrad. The details of what actually happened are vague, but by the end of the three-day period, Zaytsev had killed the sniper and claimed that his scope was his most prized trophy. To him, making this his most precious trophy means that the person he killed must have been almost as good as Zaytsev himself.

5.Lyudmila Pavlichenko
July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974

309 confirmed deaths

In June 1941, Pavlichenko was 24 years old and Nazi Germany was invading the Soviet Union. She was among the first volunteers and asked to join the infantry. She was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division of the Red Army. From there, she became one of 2,000 snipers in the Soviet forces. The first two murders of her were carried out near Belyayevka using a Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle with a P.E. Range of 4 powers. The first action she saw was during the conflict in Odessa. She was there for two and a half months and achieved 187 deaths. When forced to relocate, she spent the next eight months fighting in Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula. She there she recorded 257 deaths, and for this feat, she was cited by the Council of the Army of the South. Pavlichenko’s total confirmed kills during WWII was 309, 36 of them were enemy snipers.

4.Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow
March 9, 1891 – August 5, 1952

378 confirmed deaths
Over 300 Captures:

Three times awarded a military medal and twice seriously wounded, Pegahmagabow was a skilled marksman and scout, credited with 378 German kills and the capture of more than 300 more. He was an Ojibwa warrior with Canadians in battles such as Mount Sorrel. As if killing nearly 400 Germans wasn’t enough, he also received medals for sending messages through very heavy enemy fire, for directing crucial relief efforts when his commanding officer was incapacitated, and for cutting through enemy fire to get more ammunition when his Commanding officer was incapacitated. The unit was running low. Although he was a hero among his fellow soldiers, he was practically forgotten once he returned to Canada. Regardless, he was one of the most effective snipers of the First World War.

3.Adelbert F. Waldron
March 14, 1933 – October 18, 1995

109 Confirmed Kills

Waldron once held the record for the most confirmed kills for any American sniper in history, until Chris Kyle (see above). However, it’s not just his impressive killing record that makes him one of the best, but also his incredible accuracy. This excerpt from Colonel Michael Lee Lanning’s Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam describes exactly what I’m talking about: “One afternoon, I was traveling along the Mekong River in a Tango boat when an enemy sniper on the shore pecked at the boat. everyone else on board was struggling to find the antagonist, who was firing from the shore more than 900 meters away, Sergeant Waldron took his sniper rifle and fired at the Vietcong from the top of a coconut tree with one shot ( this from a platform movement). Such was the ability of our best sniper. ” Nuff Said: If there were a scale of difficulty for shots like these, it would be almost impossible to beat. Well, let’s try to do that anyway. Here’s “White Feather” …

2.Carlos Norman Hathcock II
May 20, 1942 – February 23, 1999

Nicknamed “Lông Trung du Kich”

or “White Feather” 93 Confirmed kills

Hatcock has one of the most impressive mission records of any Marine Corps sniper. Let’s forget about the dozens of shooting championships that he won. During the Vietnam War, he racked up 93 confirmed deaths. The Vietnam Army offered a reward of $ 30,000 for his life for killing so many of his men. The rewards given to American snipers by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) generally amounted to … let’s say $ 8. It was Hathcock who fired the most famous shot in sniper history. He fired a bullet at a very long distance, which pierced the range of an enemy sniper, hit him in the eye and killed him. Hathcock and Roland Burke, his observer, were stalking the enemy sniper (who had already killed several Marines), who they believed had been sent to specifically kill him. When Hathcock saw a flash of light reflecting off the enemy’s sights, he fired in a split second, achieving one of the most accurate shots ever. Hathcock reasoned that the only way this would have been possible would have been if both snipers were aiming at each other’s scope at the same time, and he fired first. However, although the distance was never confirmed, Hathcock knew that it would have been easy for both snipers to kill each other due to the flight time. The white feather was synonymous with Hathcock (he kept one in his hat), and he took it from her. just once for a mission. Note that he volunteered for this mission, but he had to crawl over 1500 yards of enemy territory to shoot a general in command of the NVA. The information was not released until he was on his way. (He volunteered for a mission he knew nothing about). They spent 4 days and 3 nights without sleeping or crawling inch by inch. An enemy soldier nearly stepped on him as he lay camouflaged in a meadow. At another point, he was about to be bitten by a viper, but he was unfazed. He finally got into position and waited for the general. When he arrived, Hathcock was ready. He fired a round and struck the general in the chest, killing him. The soldiers began the search for the sniper and Hathcock had to retreat to avoid detection. They never caught him, what nerves of steel.

1.Simo Häyhä
December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002

Nicknamed “The White Death”

705 confirmed kills (505 with a rifle, 200 with a submachine gun)

Häyhä was a Finnish soldier who, using an iron-scoped bolt-action rifle, racked up the highest confirmed kills recorded as a sniper in any war. Häyhä was born in the municipality of Rautjärvi near the current Finnish-Russian border and began his military service in 1925. His duties as a sniper began during the “winter war” (1939-1940) between Russia and Finland. . During the conflict, Häyhä endured freezing temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius. In less than 100 days, he was credited with 505 confirmed deaths, 542 if unconfirmed deaths are included. However, unofficial frontline battlefield figures put the number of sniper kills at over 800. In addition to his sniper kills, he was also credited with 200 from a Suomi KP / 31 machine gun, surpassing his total kills. confirmed at 705. He did all of this it was amazing. He basically was alone all day, in the snow, shooting Russians, for three months straight. Of course, when the Russians found out that many soldiers were being killed, they thought, “well, this is a war, surely there will be victims.” But when they told the generals that it was a man with a rifle, they decided to act a little. First, they sent a counter-sniper. When the body was returned to him, they decided to send a team of counter-snipers. When they didn’t come back at all, they sent out a whole damn battalion. They had casualties and couldn’t find him. Finally, they ordered an artillery strike, but to no avail. You see, Häyhä was smart, and this was his neck of the woods. He was dressed completely in white camouflage. He used a smaller rifle to fit his smaller frame (only 5’3 ″) and increase his accuracy. He used an iron sight to present the smallest possible target (a scoped sight would require the sniper to raise his head to sight). He compacted the snow in front of the barrel so as not to disturb it when he fired, thus revealing his position. He also kept the snow in his mouth, so his breath didn’t condense and he revealed where he was. However, he was eventually shot in the jaw by a stray bullet during combat on March 6, 1940. He was picked up by his own soldiers, who said he was missing half his head. However, he did not die and regained consciousness on the 13th, the day peace was declared. Again, the total kills (505 snipers + 200 submachine guns = 705 total confirmed kills), all in less than 100 days.