Why Snipers Avoid Headshots In Real Life
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0:00 Sniper At Work
0:46 The US Army medic shot by sniper
2:06 Snipers are not visible
2:55 What if a sniper misses the shot?
3:30 Who is more experienced? Sniper or Spotter?
4:02 Impact of wind on sniping accuracy
4:21 Impact of gravity on sniping accuracy
5:08 Impact of the Coriolis Effect on sniping accuracy
5:42 WarPath Ace Shooter (sponsor)
7:02 How do snipers measure distance?
8:02 The longest sniper kill world record
8:29 Breathing control and trigger control
9:07 Why snipers don't go for headshot
9:50 How aerial snipers work?
11:09 How do snipers hide? (Ghillie suit)
12:19 Why snipers pants don't have zippers
13:15 Stalking training for snipers
14:02 Sniper's most important role (Reconnaissance)
14:55 Sniper school (Fort Benning)
15:28 Psychological impact of snipers
16:16 What happens to captured snipers?
16:51 Sniper countermeasures
17:36 Drones are replacing snipers
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That was a very abrupt ending.
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One thing you missed is that since snipers spend their time gathering lots of information and knows the secret ins and outs of enemy position, it is vital for the enemy to force the sniper to vomit out all the facts he/she has gathered and hence, there is also a practical reason to be especially mistreated
The coriolis effects on a bullet, over the distance of a snipers shot is non existant.
“This is why ‘flat-earthers don’t make good snipers”, is an expression I didn’t expect to hear!
I have a flat earther at work. He was spouting his Bullshiiite at lunch. I just said dude I was a Mortarman for 14 years STFU and leave me alone. He was like why? I'm like go read up on GM angle and leave me alone.
When he said the line about the Earth rotating, I was thinking about FEs, then he did not disappoint by actually saying that line :)
Lol yeah
They also make pretty terrible pilots, sailors, telecom engineers, surveyors....the list goes on lol. That's the thing I can never understand about FEs. Don't they understand how many people have to account for the curve of the earth to do they're everday jobs? Are they all just in on it? There are literally tens, maybe hundreds of millions of regular middle-class working people world-wide who would have actively participating in this conspiracy. Utterly ridiculous.....
@@xxan84me too, I already made the joke in my head and I cracked up when ge said it.
In Conclusion: Due to their small size and constant movement, heads are not considered a dependable target for snipers. Instead, snipers typically focus on aiming at objects that offer a higher probability of hitting.
Aim small, miss small.
Thats why they always aim for the torso. Is the biggest part of the body and where most of your internals are
Also a wounded enemy will use up resourses that a dead one won't.
@@Diego-ym4rx Also known as the Sniper's triangle.
@@donaldcarey114 immediately requires one person for a fireman's carry then two soldiers to carry a stretcher. Maybe a third if a medic is administering an IV. In that case I don't see the medic as one carrying the stretcher.
Years ago, a friend had an unusually large head. He hated it when I called him 'Snipers dream.'
🤣👍🏼
seeing how you said 'had" an unusually large head, I'm assuming it's now sniper's dream come true?
Is this a Bob Mortimer reference?
Ah, good ol' Gary Cheeseman
@@QubecumberOr they grew into it
Best sniper I've ever seen was a lady who'd come to the range after her classes on Fridays. She could hit just about any shot I'd give her, and spotted for herself. Why was she so good? She was a student studying for a PhD in physics, after returning from a tour in Afghanistan. She could do almost all of the required math in her head. It became a game of sorts for the range staff to give her the most challenging shots we could.
Daaammmm! Wish I am that good.
Most if not all of the best snipers are good at math. Or at least that is how it was before ballistic calculators became common. All that passed when I got my sniper training many years ago, where all good to very good at math. Personally I think to many snipers and spotters depend to much on the ballistic calculator to tell them what to do these days. I think it is to little focus on training them to manage well without all the modern gadgets as they might end up in a situation without one or more of them, but need to take a very important shot.
Was she from a dream or hallucination? And how was she with the 3 hour mud crawl?
@@carnivore2023Either that or they were really good with slide rules growing up, so they have a physical analog for numbers in their head like how a pianist associates specific sounds to a location on the instrument.
@@gearfriedtheswmasMud crawl? You did see the part about the shooting range and after class, right?
Just change your weapon settings to "hit scan" instead of projectile in order to avoid problems with wind and gravity
No don’t, my dad did that and he got arrested for assassination
@@whereismycup exactly
@@whereismycuphitscan was illegal in dallas at that time
I don't remember ATF consider a high power laser pen as a gun.....@@hawlitakerful
Hitscan is superior for competitive play. Tarkov players can’t CS but plenty of CS players can Tarkov. Boomer dad AR-15 kit similator. Muh landmark. More like skidmark. You guys stink 🤢 Edit: Sorry I boofed
“Dang its hot today, I wish I didn’t pull guard duty…” The bush next to me: “buddy, you ain’t got it that bad.”
“Shit I guess you’re right…Wait a sec-“
@@Kylel0519 "Shh SHh Sh Shhh...Don't make a sound"
stay perfictly still and you will live through this .........Phuuut oops I lied
wait hol' up
the tick crawling up his leg: seems just dandy to me...
- Private Johnson! - Yes, sir! - Didn't see you on the sniper stalking train session this morning! - Thank you sir!
2:18 Even if they weren't in ghillie suits, there would have been no way to see them. They weren't blending in, they were straight up hidden behind everything 💀
I was thinking if someone told me they're hiding somewhere in a 12x12 area, i'll just ask someone to send in a predator 🚀
Exactly! They could have been playing volleyball back there and they would have been impossible to see.. "Can you see the sniper hiding behind the tree around the corner completely out of the camera frame?" No. No we can't.
yeah that made no sense
I spotted them in under 60 seconds, there were two blades of grass almost dancing just about dead center of the screen when practically nothing else was moving at all! Not even leaves on the trees. Safe bet SOMETHING was there. Other than that you'd never have seen them in a million years, watch how they stand up, they were BELOW GROUND LEVEL with the foreground!! Either in a swale or hole in the ground or there was a slight rise in the ground in front of them...
Stephen was an absolute professional. Takes a chest shot, hits the deck, got up, kept is wits, got cover, pointed out the sniper and then rendered aid to said sniper. As an ex-medic, he was right to help the sniper. However either he's a chill dude, or very well trained for him to act like he did. Good on him
Im a muslim, hate the fact that the USA invaded iraq, but big respect for this soldier, I don’t know if I know anyone who has it in them to actually act THAT professional.
@@ahmedj2458 Many US snipers who whent to Iraq came home with what I call "injuries of conscious" meaning while they were in the field they meaning while they were in the field they exucted commadts of questionable ethics. Now they have problems involved in the ethics of what they did. To me they are just another innocent victim of the policies that killed so many others. It is not up to you to forgive them. It is up to themselves and their families..... Those with the injuries are the upstanding ones. Some have other ways of dealing with it. They demonize all those kinds of people they killed.
@@urrywest conscious --> conscience
@@urrywest The kicker is always that had they not done what they did... what would the situation be? For example, you see a woman take a grenade and is getting ready to throw it... if you shoot her, you're killing someone's sister/mother/daughter... and that's not a good feeling... but if you don't shoot her, that grenade she's about to throw could kill several people. A lot of the time, those guys had to make very split-second decisions that could easily go one way or the other, and realistically... either option would suck
@@Tank50us a choice between doing evil, or doing nothing and letting worse evil happen
Military snipers don‘t go for heads as well because a dead soldier means one less enemy to fight. An injured soldier means at least one or two of his comrades will likely help him, thus cutting three men from the fight
wow. learnt something new today
that is entirely dependent on the conflict involved. sometimes a sniper will intentionally injure a target to draw out others to shoot instead but from plenty of footage coming out of Syria and Ukraine right now they just aim for lethal shots straight away.
@@dominuslogik484yeah, not to mention if your target is a high value one you most likely want them dead right away, not injured. I think this mentality of just injuring is more likely to matter with regular infantry, and not as prominent in sniping.
@@flydrop8822 Snipers often aren't looking for particular individuals but they do have a priority list to go down when they spot targets which usually starts at whoever the officer/leader of a squad is or the machineguner. after that its really whoever pokes out.
That is true in an western army. Russian soldiers prefer to put a handgrenade under their chin and pull the pin because the know no help is coming if it is not from the enemy side that is.
Served as a sniper (or maybe marksman would be more accurate term) in Finnish army, one maybe obvious thing to add for the "high value target" list includes anyone using radios or any kind of special equipment (MGs, anti-tank etc.). And the 1st priority was always the most dangerous enemy, then the high value ones. Instructors sometimes told stories of how in past wars some snipers added to their terror by shooting either the 1st person of the Russians walking through, or maybe always the 2nd one. This made it so that sometimes enemy didn't want to take the lead, or maybe follow anyone who did. Scary stuff to even think about.
Exactly. You can watch this thing in ‘Enemy at The Gates’ film.
Not a sniper myself, but in basic we'd always be told that the enemy would go after the easiest target (aka which one of us was fucking up) first. I always thought, no if I was the enemy I'd take out the ones who look like they're at the top of their game first cause if chaos breaks out and they're still alive they're the ones I'd need to worry about. I'd rather have to worry about the ones who clearly don't do their jobs well and will likely be easier targets.
@@04rit The movie where they have two guys per one rifle? You know that was really a thing? Neither was NKVD shooting on its soldiers.
@@geraldposter1496 But they would likely be harder to hit/kill than the easiest target, and at that point you're dealing with more numbers than you would otherwise have to. Theoretically speaking, if you take out several easy targets, you leave an uphill battle for the remaining guys, strong as they are, yeah?
In the IDF, the snipers just shoot whoever is holding a white flag.
As a sniper and sniper instructor, our focus is on hitting the larger target - the body. The objective is not necessarily to kill, but rather to eliminate the threat and remove the individual from the battle. In certain scenarios, such as hostage rescue operations, a headshot may be necessary for a police sniper. This precision is crucial in order to neutralize the threat and protect innocent lives.
I always remember to take the Coriolis effect into account when sniping
But the world flat, that would make yo miss.
@@Ribberflavenous Capybara
@@Ribberflavenousno the earth is a donut
Duh 🤷♂️
@@bazarleam2593 Capybara
All this makes Simo Häyhä more amazing, he did most of this out of common sense, ate snow to hide breathing, covered himself in snow etc, and no ranger finder or scope.
He shot at conscripts grouped up together at a closer range than todays snipers.
@@therealchen i think you want to look more into it, yes that was early days, then he become lone wolf, if intel said he was in area that area got mortals and anti snipers there.
The man was the grim reaper incarnation
@@eeka_droid legend says grim reaper hide from him.
Most of his engagements were under 200m, which takes a different set of balls to pull off.
Thing is I’ve done the calculation for a 1km/s bullet from h= 1 meter and the coriolis effect makes it go roughly 2cm to the side… seems somewhat negligible. Whats more important is wind. Wind is (I havent done the calculation) likely 10-50 times stronger
2:20 no, unless you have the ability to see through solid objects, you would normally have the camo guys hiding in plane sight letting their camo gear do the work, this has the guys behind bushes
Thought the same... Stupid example. Let me get behind a tree, which covers me COMPLETELY then ask someone to see me.
I was thinking exactly the same. This was some typical BS we see all the time when people want to talk about snipers hiding. As a sniper you need to be able to take the shot without and form of branches or twigs that can ruin the shot. So you need to blend in in plain sight. Very often you use shadows to help you with that.
And that sniper had like 600 bushes in front of his scope he is not seeing anything lol.. Unless he shoots with luck through the bushes each time and all then he would be the most best sniper in the world.. That clip made no sense.
Ikr what the hell..
@@alitharealist4730 And that's not to mention that those bushes are quite likely to deflect the bullet from its intended trajectory.
It is remarkable that Tschiderer stayed true to his role as a medic. The difference between a soldier and a murderer is this basic respect to any human, friend, foe or civilian.
Sound nice but that's nonsense a soldier is someone who kills on orders from a chain of command, unlike your a snowflake trying to redefine what soldiers are trained to do.
Or it could be just the fact that had he not done this, he would be receiving a court martial for violating Geneva Conventions. And last I recalled military prison isn't exactly fun and is pretty much a very very good deterrent as well as the fact you essentially lose all benefits and get no pay and dishonorably discharged which is the equivalent of a felony. If you are married this essentially screws your family as they no longer get medical benefits and if you are court martialed and it succeeds and your family lives on post, they will have 6-12 months to leave post as they are no longer entitled/qualified to live on post since the soldier in question is no longer entitled to any benefits.
@@wolf2179 oh? And who would have reported the events? You're clueless.
@@wolf2179comrades will Not Report you, who else will?
@@No.Good.Nickname most those conventions work on basic respect. Red cross means you get help if lay your weapons. In combat it's not so clear but after it is over everyone is patched up best we can. Also well treated wounded enemy easier gives information.
There was no outro for the video, which makes me think it got cut off too early. Maybe NWYT got taken out by an enemy sni
It's not the first time he's suddenly cut off a video like that. Room for improvement in otherwise great videos.
SNIPER! TAKE COVER!
I got him in my sigh
enemy sniper what? finish your senten-
nah he got droned
As a Navy medic serving with the USMC, I will say I never treated a person who I had taken fire by. But then my injuries were from shrapnel, not gunfire. I have treated several enemy combatants, in fact, more often enemy than allied.
Before watching I’m gonna try and predict the answer: I’m guessing it’s a combination of factors; 1. Most if not all soldiers in the modern era wear helmets that have been getting better and better as protection technology advances. 2. The head is a smaller target than the rest of the body 3. You don’t need to kill your enemies instantly on the battlefield, hell, you don’t even need to kill them necessarily. In war, the aim is to stop your enemy’s forces from doing what they set out to do, and violence is how you’ve chosen to do it. You just need to knock them down and make sure they stay down, and if they never get back up again, that’s just an added bonus. A suitably powerful bullet will take someone out of action if it hits just about any significant part of their body.
there is no helmet that will stop a rifle round out of a sniper. and there likely wont be one. they are designed to stop shrapnel and blunt force mostly. a helmet that could effectively stop a sniper round would be heavy as fuck and even if it does stop the bullet dead it might still take you out of the fight as you now have a concussion or a cracked skull
Basically, unless extremely unlucky, you'll never spot them. Imagine trying to find a heavily camouflaged team at 400+ meters. Practically impossible
I'm curious how a sniper gets a clear shot when lying hidden in grass and brush like in the example in this vid. I assume they'd have to find a stump or bush or something to prop up on in order to get a view?
Not with thermal Scopes these days. Even the one I've got as a civilian now. You can spot a guille suit like a light bulb at ranges well past 500m
@@MrParker300 There is different materials that don't allow the transfer of heat through the coating. So they actively camouflage IR cameras signature.
That's where you are wrong son. My nanovison can detect anything within a range of 100 km. And as soon as the nanovison detects the enemy, it calls a direct airstrike direct from orbit via the hunter satelite in mere seconds. So good luck. 😂
@@batman_2004 Damn, you're good.
I do sport shooting with air rifles at 10m. What you said about heartbeat and micro-movements is absolutely true. My heartbeat can make me hit an 8 instead of a 10 very easily (a 9 is bad, anything below 9 is abysmal).
.22 LR target shooter here, absolutely makes a difference. Even the way your finger is positioned when you pull the trigger can slightly change it, especially at say 50m on electronic targets. Sick sport though
No one taught me that. Autistic levels of OCD, and air force indoctrination made me pick up on my heartbeat nudging my torso leaning against the bench causing very minor (but still annoying) movement in the sight when trying to group with a 10 power optic at 100 yards. I was... REALLY intent on grouping perfectly; precision ammo isn't cheap.
Heck, I even notice it when shooting a camera
I once got a 240 mm group size (up from ≈75) simply because my breathing was wrong (I had influenza).
That must be fun! Assuming they are semi auto air guns? Grew up shooting but haven’t shot a pellet rifle in a long time. I bet the air guns have come along way since the pump master
I have 2 sniper friends who have been teaching me stuff on camping/ hunting trips and it's very interesting. I wish I was good at all the things but I'm mostly good at shooting because I have a business selling targets and I shoot a few thousand rounds a month as a "business" experience You know, for durability testing of ar500 targets. Lol
Sniping i.e. the verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper". The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter". Is essentially hunting, and uses all the aspects of hunting, and the objective of the hunt is another person.
No, no, no. "Sniper" is a term that originated in the 1830's when people competing in a timed Ebay auction would get shot down by a last second winning bid.
@@coledrevenjThe earliest Ghillie suits were created by Scottish gamekeepers in the early 17th century in the Scottish Highlands. The Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits and in 1916 went on to become the British Army's first sniper unit. The Lovat Scouts were initially recruited from Scottish Highland estate workers, especially professional stalkers and gamekeepers. 😉
but what does the snipe taste like? Better taste like chicken to be worth this 250 year long hassle.
"Didn't see you in camouflage practice today, Corporal Jones" "Yes Sir! Thankyou Sir!"
Here, let me save you some time: Heads are small, identifying later is hard only by the clothes, getting shot in the chest with a big rifle kills all the same, or even better, maims for life.
THANK YOU GOD DAMN IT 18 MINS FOR A FUCKING SENTENCE
Thank you! took me a minute to realize that bro was yapping about stuff not directly relevant to the question rather than get straight the point, I hate stuff like that. The details about how snipers and spotter aim are relevant and interesting but that should go AFTER the answer is given. The rest is filler. KZhead channels should seriously start considering a short & long answer format instead of baiting people to try and get more view time.
You ppl watch nwyt for the question in the title?
@@Velthrex it's called marketing strategy and you don't need to cry about it
@@fumikato But the person they're trying to market to is the dude "crying about it", so maybe they should take his advice. In any case, what he's doing is better than crying about somebody who's crying about somehing else, which is what you're doing.
I've watched a few of your videos. You do great work and explain it in a way that even non veterans can understand. Airborne All the Way 💪
The trainees sneaking up on the COs reminded me of when we learnt to ghost walk in cadets at the Enoggera army barracks (Australia) and had to all sneak up on the military guys and girls that taught us, some of us got pretty close but no one reached the objective 😂
Interesting note about gravity. It is not a constant. Location on the earth...latitude and longitude along with elevation. Plus it is not a constant with time...the location of the moon in respect to your location, time of day and day of the year are needed to be factored in for longer shots.
Interesting 👍🏼
Prove it.
@@MajorJakas The tides is one example of moons gravitational pull on Earth.
@@BuckClucks doesn't really prove anything, though, and as all the moon rocks were just petrified wood, you're statement relies heavily on the conjecture of those given government funding. People such as Eric Dollard were paid by the government to study the skies, but since his findings didn't concur with what our satanic overlords decided to promote as true, he was fired. Everything you know is just what you've been told to know. The truth came out, so Obama made it legal for our government to push propaganda on it's own people, Trump came along and talked up a "space-force", Biden I now in office making sure nobody can ever afford an interest in science ever again. Those of us who were smart before algorithms made the truth impossible to find, know this is all just talk, with no concrete foundation. Abandon the false teachings of your Einstein, Darwin, and Marx. Textbooks claim long bridges must be built with curvature in mind, such as the Mackinaw bridge, yet the actual builders never take such into consideration. No footage of any camera leaving the surface of the earth shows the horizon to drop. Elon Musk putting a car into space, when he even admitted nothing at all was done to the car to prepare it for space, and yet the tires remained inflated? The moon landings were so tight on mass restrictions that they couldn't send a proper camera to the moon, but brought gold clubs and dune buggies? As a scientist, with family that has worked for NASA, myself and many other people smarter than you were fighting for the truth to come out, but the lies have taken root, people do not want to be culpable for their actions, they want to believe we are all made of stardust, even though there isn't a single intermediary fossil to support such a claim. All we have around us are fully formed creatures, and a Bible that tells us where to find Noah's ark and that babies produce vitamin K on the day that God says to perform circumcisions. Fossils of dinosaurs alongside evidence of humans is everywhere. We have Roman artifacts found in South America depicting dinosaurs they should have never seen. History of full of people that believe what they are told, and they believe it to the grave, yet the truth has never been erased. There are plenty of testimonies from architects and artillerymen alike who do just fine following the military manuals instructions to assume the earth to be a flat plane when making your math. The only people saying otherwise are our overlords who wish Epstein was still alive.
Now I need this in MacMillan's voice. (or maybe Hoot's?)
There's more involved in some of this. It depends on caliber, muzzle velocity, bullet weight etc. from a hunting view, a 30:06 bullet has 2 points that are on X. The bullet rises to a certain point then starts to drop, so if your sighting in for 200 yards then the bullet will be on X again at say 375 yards. Those aren't good numbers but it's an example, on going up, on coming back down
Parabolic arc is the term used to describe the movement of the round in flight.
Don't know about the 30.06. However. SMLE No 1 Mk III. .303 Set open sight at 200 yards. Shoot at 25 yards - should be spot-on for elevation/line of sight. 25 yards and 200 yards are the crossing points .(Personal experience. Australian Army Cadet Corps: 1955/'58.)
1:46 tbh that's far more badass than any sniper shots, confirmed killcounts or other such stuff.
no outro, no "please subscribe for the love of god".... just intro, facts, sponsor, even more facts and boom the end and other videos I can watch. just the way I like it. Subscribed...
Most snipers and precision long range shooters don't bother to account for the Coriolis effect. Enter the data for a 6.5CM shot under 1km into a ballistics calculator like Applied Ballistics, and compute the hold with and without Coriolis. The difference will be negligible. Also, at 6:55, the game in your ad shows a full round, not just a bullet, of what appears to be 9mm, flying through the air. It even has an unfired primer and a headstamp on the case. Nobody so clueless about firearms is going to make a decent firearm related game. The drop difference between 760y and 870y completely depends on the caliber. With something like a .300WM or .338 Lapua it will be minimal. That's one reason sniper units are moving towards more powerful rounds like those. Laser range finders measure the angle of the return laser and use trigonometry to calculate the distance.
I have never been so interested in snipers in my life and now here I am
Bullet drop is not the first/only reason why are snipers moving towards heavier bullets. Snipers (or any long range shooters) prefer better ballistic coefficient over the flatter trajectory (you can measure the distance precisely, but cross wind will be always a good guess at best). Thing is, snipers are greedy and they want both with some some extra lethality on top. You can have all of those only with heavy, powerful and hard recoiling monsters.
@@themoss7115 I clearly said it's one reason, not the only reason or the primary reason. Also it's not exactly heavier that we're going for to improve BC, it's the length to diameter ratio. My 6mm Dasher bullets are 105gr. My .308 bullets are 175gr. But my Dashers have a better BC because they're long and skinny.
@@themoss7115 A 338 Lapua Magnum or a 338 Norma Magnum are not that hard recoiling at all in modern sniper rifles. Specially because silencers are used as well. A 50 BMG is usually not used against humans and they are terrible to carry around for most sniper roles. A 338 is mainly used because of high BC for cross wind and to lose as little KE as possible. And to combat body armor. If the sniper that shot at Stephen Tschiderer had used a 338, Stephen Tschiderer would not have survived the shot. The sniper was clearly not a well trained, smart and experienced sniper as he would never tried a torso shot with the gun he used. If he had been that, he would have taken a neck or head shot to avoid the body armor.
@@carnivore2023 Better to aim for the lower and legs. A dead soldier can be left behind, but an injured requires 2 healthy soldiers to get him out so that's 3 soldiers out of the game with 1 shot.
Quality of your Sniper program is important. Finland won "European Best Sniper Team"-competition in 2023 and members of winning team didn't come from same unit nor did they any familiarization practice with each other. There must be good and uniform training program for them to work together right away that well.
sounds like they were doped with some good ole pervitin once again
Breathing control isn't just for snipers. In the army, for an M16 even at 25m range you want to consistently shoot at a certain place in your breath, and having a calm heart rate is super important too.
Well said, and shows experience
why the hell did our staff sergeant make us run 2 circles around the field at full load then after each non-hit
Really informative vid! TY and thx for using both measurement Systems..
12:19 Ghillie suit pants don't have zippers. 12:31 Sniper pulls up his ghillie pant's zipper lol
This is not the only "wrong" information in the video. Yes, at times a sniper can choose to use ghillie pants with buttons, but very often he uses one with zippers.
Thanks for annotating the unitconversions ❤️
There was an incident 5 years ago here in my country 🇵🇭 in a city called Tanauan where its mayor got shot 200m away at the city hall during a flag ceremony. The police found the suspected sniper's nest and whoever did it seems to be familiar with the tactics mentioned in the video such as: Concealing himself using the vegetation around his spot, and is familiar with stalking due to the fact he was never caught and fled the scene after taking the shot. Scary to think about it if the assassin was ex-military and was gifted with such skills.
Does that comment include any non-fiction?
@@bunk95he just gave you the time frame, country, and city. I believe looking it up for yourself before you start making snarky comments shouldn't be that hard
@@joashchechet1675 fr, you can literally highlight the part of the comment "Tanauan where its mayor got shot" right click search with google and its the first result
many ex-snipers suffer severe PTSD. it was explained to me by a sniper that the main cause for this is every single kill you make you see plainly, clearly, accurately and in high detail. most soldiers don't get this.
My buddy has ptsd and his friend who was on a sniper team hung himself the visions kept haunting him. I don’t know to much about it they were Marines in Afghanistan. My friend is getting treatment but has to pay out of pocket, I find that highly disturbing too.
What about hunters then? They have to go over the mud to GET to their fresh kill, and gut it, then carry the bloody carcass back home, cook the shit out of the poor critter, and eat it and make preserved food out of the leftovers. You dont do that in sniper school or spetsnaz, not to iraqi civilians, not to the guys in your unit. Maybe you did it in stalingrad, eating frozen legs after the cat meat run out
@@AremStefaniaK what are you trying to say? That hunters looking for food get ptsd also? Usually food doesn’t shoot back and this is a human that’s not a psychopath taking another human life. In America you may run into one of the guys family members, or see people like the ones you killed being your neighbor and you start to wonder was I the good guy or the bad guy if you are capable of putting yourself in their place. Not sure what you mean by eating legs and cat food
what the? are you serious? hunters kill animals. not other human beings.@@AremStefaniaK
For anyone curious about the the rifle that set the new record at 8:13, it's called the Lord of the Horizon/Horizon Lord. It's a rifle manufactured by the Ukrainian company Snipex. For the new record setting shot it's believed that the rifle was chambered in 12.7x114HL, a necked down version of the 14.5x114 cartridge. The rifle is a single shot (no magazine), bolt action and is approximately one meter in overall length.
Only 1 meter? What are you smoking
@@imjudeau2156 yeah wtf, 1 meter my ass
@@imjudeau2156nothing, just 1 cm joint, that can't do no harm.
they should sue spacex. or are they owned by the biggest snake oil salesman?
@@imjudeau2156 Americans when they try to use the metric system: > It's pretty long > must be one meter in length!
The accuracy precautions you see here are also applied in olympic target shooting.
2:22: The one plant swaying when there wasn't any wind making the others move gave them away. I'll bet a lot of people paused the video to try to find them and ended up robbing themselves of that one single tell in the process.
So wise , Thank You . A fine reminder that there is more to sniping than just the shot
yeah, learning to do the fortnite dances after each kill is a special course every shooter needs to undertake
Good to have seen this channel start as "fun facts" and has grown into a serious documentary channel. Keep it up!
i cannot unsee the palindrome in "fun facts" of "fuc fans" thx to you
Remember to left click to do a breath hold, so you can increase accuracy. Then look for a hit marker.
What kind of psychopath are you that you hold breath with left click? With which button you shoot, Strg+F8?
Left shift bub, you weirdos and mouse breath control need a lesson.
@@Vittrichzomg F8 fire button is for kingpins, right next to screenshot F9 and Quicksave F7 so you can just fiercely smash the 3 buttons with the bottom of fist
Thank you for a very informative and educational video. I have been a target shooter for 50+ years and thought I knew much about the sniping activity, now I know how much I did not know, and I'm sure there is much more to learn. Thank you again!
The explanation of the effects of the Coriolis force is wrong. If the bullet travels for 10 seconds, the Earth rotates only 0.0417 degrees. At the equator, in only 10 seconds, the target has moved 2.88 miles from its original position, but so has the shooter. They are rotating together. When shooting to the East, the bullet has a higher initial velocity, relative to space, so gravity has a smaller effect and the bullet lands higher. That's why rockets almost always launch to the East. The Earths rotation adds to the speed of the rocket, making it easier to get into orbit. Shooting to the West, the Earth's rotation takes away from the velocity of the bullet and the target hits lower.
First thing I click on when you appear in my feed. And always at least one good line. Favorites this time were snipers not buying at Target and flat earthers. Funniest and best researched channel on youtube. All stock footage, but it doesn't look like it.
Glad you liked it!
Word of advice for my civilian snipers. Mud, fully disguises you from thermals. The predator movie is entirely correct.
Proned in the mud with your rifle
Getting the mud is the easy part. Screaming like Ahhhnold to draw your opponent to battle, that's hard.
@@strykenine7902GET TO THE YOU KNOW WHAT
Y'know it's a movie right.! Joke 😂
I saw Corridor Crew did a test on that about a month ago, it did pretty good.
OK,. it's been a while but, I went through Sniper training in the FFL back in 1987. Everything you mentioned mostly applies to Moderen Snipers or US snipers. There back then It was all up to us. We were set in the normal troop line up in a Sqaud. Totally different. NO spotter. We were the spotters. At times we would be pulled togather as a Sniper team but still really alone and No one spotter. Everthing you said the spotter does we did by ourselves and we didn't have Electronics to give us answers.( yeah, it bothers me when I hear/see it). I'm not downing what you've said but, it is a different type of Sniper.
Depends on the range, the conditions and what the target is doing. Ideal conditions, stationary target, 600m is pretty easy for a head shot.
@csjrogerson2377 a 338 in the chest is 100% deadly anyways
Snipers can go for "head shots" but there are a factors to consider. The main one is the caliber they are using and the amount of armor they are using. Generally speaking most body armor used in war or battle can handle at least 1 small rifle round requiring a follow up shot which is not really advisable for a sniper. A "headshot" is not even a head shot really it's more of neck shot. The target area being the top lip to the neck. The idea being a clean shot in that area will more than likely kill you target. Because it's technically possible to survive a body shot unlikely yes but again when you can't take a follow up shot it matters.
well a wounded soldier takes at least one or two mates to recover and more care. i guess thats actual the biggest reason...
@@mugnuz This is a VERY long lived myth. This is not used anymore and has not for very many years. It is true that this was a marksman/sniper doctrine many years ago to wound as many enemies as possible on the battlefield to bind up as many resources as possible. They have stopped that very many years ago and was not a part of my sniper training many years ago.
This is totally correct and it is amazing how so many still believe that snipers try to injure as many as possible to bind up resources. As a sniper you want to kill the enemy as fast as possible. And there are multiple reasons for that. If by chance you are using a lighter cartridge and/or the enemy uses body armor, you for sure try to take neck shots as this part has no body armor and it doesn't move as much as the head does. If you on the other hand use a 338 Lapua Magnum or a 338 Norma Magnum, that is my preferred cartridge, then you always take center torso shots when you can as body armor is not much of a help against that. I have never seen anyone survive a 338 to the torso.
@@carnivore2023 So how do they help their injured ally? or is it such an effective strategy they are using information warfare to not use such tactic?
@@MangaGamify that's kind of the sad part you don't. Don't get me wrong if a solider has chance to save another's life they will but if doing so will risk you or your squads lives it unfortunately might be best to let them die. I'm not saying people like it but if saving an injured soldiers life means risking the rest of your squad it's not worth it. Now with that being said the times that they risk their lives and succeed it's great. Also most field medicine is meant to stabilize a patient so that they can get a real doctor in a secure environment.
0:30 "and why their pants don't have zippers" *shows image of guy wearing pants with zippers*
i was going to comment this xD
Well mate I have always been fascinated in how snipers use the technology they have and knowledge of the maths to operate and deploy these specialised rifles/guns which they need to use during their deployment in situations that call for such methods of disabling or killing the enemy. I watched the video that showed (by reenactment) the British soldier who shot a Taliban machine gun operator and his sidekick at over 2.5 kilometers it speaks reems of the dedication these fellows in what they are empowered to do. I am also impressed by the skills of the spotter too it is really a testament to the training and dedication of these individuals.
If you want to see a more POV version of this check out the youtuber NOVRITSCH. He spent a week at the austrian military getting trained as a sniper. Really great series if you're interested
The addition of grown up measurements on the bottom right is greatly appreciated, my narrative inclined fellow.
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@@hiddenguy67 He's referring to metric, otherwise known as the measuring system that didn't make it to the moon.
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The heartbeat thing is not as hard as you might think. The weapon naturally raises and falls with your pulse, so you simply pull the trigger when the sight point is lowest.
Your heartbeat at ranges where you can control the POI is a non issue. Where your heart beating may come into affect is at ranges where your weapons can no longer accurately hit the target with all variables controlled.
havent seen my gun move a bit when its resting on my backpack.
I enjoy shooting 6inch diameter steel targets at long range (hobby) The two biggest challenges are (1) accurate range estimation and (2) wind
What is the correct fortnite dance after killing an enemy steel target?
i love the recoil from that non-existent shot at 0:22
I had my basics down way before I joined the Army in 2007. Maaan I had never been on those kinds of ranges in civilian life like I did in bct and after. Never missed a 300m shot and sometimes I could see the round/vapor trail fall into the center mass of the target. Not always but a lot of times I could see it.
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I didn't learn distance shooting in the military. Standard stuff. Now that I'm out and the world is getting more dangerous, I'm practicing. I hope to get up to a consistent 500m shot this year.
@@steeldriver1776depends on your branch. I routinely shot at 500m with open sights in the 90s with the Marine Corp. Down to 300m max and optics years later in the Army. It's definitely doable even without sights.
@@steeldriver1776 Practicing for what exactly?
@@Shoelessjoe78thanks. I want 500m in a 5” cluster/grouping.
Firstly, awesome video and i learned a lot. One small critique. "consumer ones only go out to 100m" Inaccurate, or else i have stolen military equipment (i dont i bought it at a shop). If i recall, this model loses accuracy at 700m or yards roughly. Remember when i bought it, dude said it was plus or minus 20 yards and gets uncertain near 7-800 yards, which matches the tech specs.
I was taught the bullet starts out slightly upward of level, so it's following a parabola. There's two places where the height will be correct, and one of them is the distance you sighted in at.
Good long form video. Ended quite abruptly though. 😊 I suppose not many people watch to the end. But your long videos are always worth watching all of.
What I really would like to hear is what the sniper that shot that PFC thought after the guy he just shot treated his wounds.
I’ve also heard sniping as ‘using math to make someone _else’s_ head explode’
damn thats crazy
@@LaserStryke_X in video games, it’s also called a ‘point and click adventure’
4:31 Modern bullets have spin and this cause the bullet trajectory to arc upwards before being pulled down. Even shooting from an elevated position needs to be adjusted for.
I read that Simo Häyhä favored a Mosin-Nagant Rifle, 7.62 Rimmed Russian cartridge. It's a good long range gun. That kind of makes sense since Finland had a bunch of them before The Winter War. Plus you could always scrounge ammo from the enemy in a pinch ;-)
Now add remote sniping platforms where there is no human in the area to give out its position. I hate to say it but the era of the sniper might be coming to an end. In place would be a team that would install the platform and leave.
An autonomous system like that is only good in a few situations. Being a sniper is only partially about shooting. They're highly accomplished and skilled cross-country hikers, and master scouts. Getting into position is just as important as shooting. A human doesn't need a battery to function, just MREs. A human can move instantly on their own, an autonomous system needs to be disassembled and assembled, powered, and maintained. Boots holding guns will likely never go out of fashion, because humans are cheap and versatile. Autonomous systems will also enter doctrine, but not as total replacements.
They don't buy their clothes from Target 😂😂keep up the great puns mate
I remember someone saying hit between ‘’wind and water’’.With regards to headshots we had what was then known as ‘’Huns head’’ which was a head but it was only set at at a hundred yards if I recall correctly.
2:19 Of course we can't see them even if they weren't wearing any of that camouflage we still would not have seen them since there was way too many plants in the way that perfectly covered them up. Even when they were getting up there still wasn't any visibility because of the plants until they got more than half way up. I question on if they are even able to see through any of that because if we clearly can't see a single pixel of them then they must not be able to see anything through the grass if they tried aiming at us.
Thats what I want to write. I am also a perfect online chat sniper/ninja because nobody can see me, because I have no f... camera. 🤪
Actually, the bullet doesn't start going down right after it leaves the barrel. First, it goes up a bit, like for a couple of hundred metres. At around 200 m. the bullet will hit the exact spot you aimed, for most long range attack rifles at least. Then start going down and down. So one needs to aim lower if the target is closer than 200 m. and higher if the target is further. Since, snipers usually shoot a lot further than 200 m. they almost always aim higher.
It depends on the angle you're aiming at. If you hold the rifle straight (parallel to the ground), the bullet is only going to go down. Rifle sights are adjusted for this, so even when you think you're shooting straight you aren't.
That's not how it works. Bullets don't generate lift. Bullets accelerate towards the ground at the same rate as if you were to drop them, the only difference is how fast it gets from point A to point B.
Usually, It goes up to be high well before your zero. It comes back down the entire time, and you set your zero at the point of impact on the path down. Easier to control at ranges just past the zero, as the round is only falling at that point. For example, a 100 yd zero has the same zero point at roughly 25 yds. so between 25-100, you have to aim low. at 100, dead on, and after, you aim high. Easier to comprehend for quick follow-up's, and easier to dope for first shot accuracy in a range of altitudes, as the round will be more or less on point at and beyond the zero.
I think what he is means is that when you aim straight, the barrel is pointed up slightly to compensate for the drop. Also if we want to be really precise, bullets do generate a tiny bit of lift since the air pressure is higher below the bullet than above it.@@Coastal_Cruzer
Spot the sniper question, 2:20 You can't spot the snipers because they are out of sight of the camera hiding below and behind cover. Not camouflaged in plain site. So of course NOT you cannot spot the sniper. Good job on getting people to write comments in your upload though.
Not saying it's obvious but you CAN see them
This video made me respect snipers a lot more
Great video as always. You make em real good
Depending on which resource one reads a sniper in Vietnam had a kill rate of 1.3 - 1.7 bullets per fatality. A soldier had a kill rate of one fatality per 50,000 bullets. WW2 was even worse with a figure almost double that but in wars like Crimea, American Civil and Napoleonic wars it was 60 - 70 bullets per fatality.
True points, and when they calculated the statistics in Vietnam they quickly realized how worthless a Full Auto M16 was without a little bit of marksmanhip training The military was relying upon superior firepower, which is useless however if a guy cant hit anything.
A close friend was in our tiny New Zealand army many years ago. He was a captain at the time and there was an army training exercise on in Australia involving NZ, Aust and the States. The different infantries had to advance to a hostile front line and they viewed it all from a helicopter. He said the American captain was embarrassed as they all got wiped out. Reason - they were specialised and did not advance as a unit and no-one else really knew how to use their equipment. The soldiers advanced quickly as they had nothing to carry and engaged and within minutes they had run out of ammunition and were "killed". When the radio communications arrived they were killed as they had no protection. When the machine guns arrived they were killed as they had no ammunition. When the ammunition finally arrived they had no one to use the guns. I imagine that has all changed but 40 years ago this was the scenario. The Kiwis and Aussies infantry all advanced in a group swapping equipment as others tired and also the soldiers carried a lot of personal ammunition. Bruce said at that time was the States depended on air support for everything and only carried enough ammunition for barely minutes of fighting. @@drd1924
@@peterdykzeul3074 I have studied that the US military is very stubborn and hard headed and only makes changes after enough people have been wiped out. Just look at how long it took them to change from SHiny ass Black Polished boots which is a very political Hey Look How disciplined we are BS, to coyote brown which actually blends in with background. We mainly rely on Superior firepower and as you pointed out, when that does not arrive, is actually bad leadership decision making for the men when instead they should improve their intelligence
A friend I use to windsurf with in NZ joined the Australian army for four years when he was travelling through Australia. He became a tank "commander" and took part in an exercise between USA and Aust and based in the Northern Territory eons ago. The Americans did an amphibious landing onto the beach and went towards the Australian front line. He was hiding behind some sand dunes watching. One of the brand new amphibians stuck and they just abandoned it in the sand. They towed it out and drove it back to their front line. One the way they came across this huge communication cable the Americans had laid out. They cut several hundred metres of it out and towed it into the desert. When they arrived at their base they got told that the Americans thought it was unfair as they did not know there were people behind them. To keep the peace they had to tell them where the cable was and give back the Amphibian landing craft. He said it was hilarious:).@@drd1924
flatearthers are not good snipers , nicely put :)
They're bad at all things involving geometry.
In a book I read, it was said that snipers actually mostly aim for the head, since they want to take down their target instantly, as described in the book that shooting them anywhere else, even in the heart, and they can still be a threat to friendlies even if only for 5 or more seconds.
2:25 into the video the spot the sniper, I got it straight away, by looking at the surroundings, everything was still nae movement except one bamboo leave swaying side to side, movement from the smallest of body movements, breathing, maybe a wee tremble as he moved like a Chameleon,in the jungle. This might sound mental but watching this video took me back Tae Playing soldiers as a wean before internet & we only had four TV channels so we either played fitbaw golf, swim in the river fish gang fighting was popular, but soldiers or snipers was special we'd buy the books like sas survival book's, combat books & of course the famous commando comic's what we read we carried out in RT, we could melt intae the background & nobody could find us handy if the police/security came looking I Grew up in Glasgow in blocks of tenements, next to miles of forest and fields, me my two brothers & our mates would go out & play for hours playing snipers, using air rifles, not Airsoft we used Dome head pellets lead (not to dangerous) we wore swimming goggles safety first, we used scopes & the forest brush to make ghullies, a few cuts, bruises, sprains, broken bones a few trips Tae the royal infirmary. I think I've still got a couple a TIN pellets in me 😂, Fkn loved it Just thought I'd share this with y'all 1❤️ &✌️out,
I love shooting and firearms and have always been interested in sniping, I got an air rifle last year and after only putting 500-700 rounds through it over the span of 2 weeks I now push my rifle to more than double its intended range. My Weihrauch hw57 puts out 16 joules and most people and the internet recommended me the maximum range is 40-55 yards, I shoot 132 yards in mild 10-15km/h (6-9mph) wind. My dream job is long haul pilot but if I fail at that sniper is one of my back up options. My passion for shooting also is one of the reasons I wanna one day move to the US, here in Europe I am not getting to shoot any kind of firearm what doesn’t help with me wanting to be able to push myself to great distances. I live in Bulgaria where I can maximum have 24 joule air rifles and otherwise I have to register it, make ballistic fingerprints be 18 or older (I am almost 18 and I had my air rifle when I was 16) and some other stuff But sniper seems like a great job (except for the killing people but it’s to protect fellow soldiers and the country so it belongs to the job)
You could just do scouting. USMC now has scouting platoons that don’t do any sniping.
This brings back so many happy memories from my childhood and youth. Growing up in a military village i start shooting at 7 years old and hiked and crawled around a lot in the forest and doing the military obstical courses just for fun and prepare for our military service. If you asked me for a head shot at age 11 and 300 meters away i would ask you what eye to put it in, and that was without scope.
not sure whether thats impressive or concerning
@@Mutraxation A bit of both my friend. Don't be a Russian and come invading my country that is for sure.
With the gravity part and stuff I can confirm it’s like that like when I hunted my deer I aimed for the shoulder at 300 yards and the gravity and wind besought it straight to the heart which was very lucky
thanks, while I knew most of what you mentioned, I'd never put it all together like you did.
LADBibletv did a great job interviewing a sniper and his time during his service and after. Watching a target for days and then being ordered to kill them he said was the worst
its more like launching an arrow with a bow than firing with a laser.
Thanks for making a 18 minutes video about a thing you were explaining for 40 seconds
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5:40 In the northern hemisphere the Coriolis effect causes all object to veer to the right regardless of the direction of travel, except for due east and west. It is reversed in the southern hemisphere.
Snipers have a saying, you can run but you'll just die tired.
"Heads are small and move around a lot" Unlike the body, they just stay put while the head wanders around
Meanwhile cheaters in battlebit --- waggle head cheats :P
- Private Jones, I didn't see you on the camouflage drills today! - Thank you, sir!
also consider the movement of the solar system relative to the Milky Way Galaxy relative to the universe for 100% spot-on accuracy!
"That is, why flatearther don't make good snipers!" Made my day! 🤣
It is said that the sniper Carlos Hancock, I think I spelled it correctly, was bitten by ants, spiders, etc, while waiting for the Nva general to come into his cross hairs when he took them out
It´s Hathcock. It´s also said that he did not bother to get the pants open for a relief on that mission. Pants can be washed when you make it back to base. The chance for getting the HVT after detection is slim.
@@maxlutz3674 A few deployed infantry said that they had similarly. In the heat of battle, you worry about it later.
@@nobodynoone2500 It´s about priorities. Your battle buddies surely will not appreciate when you take a leak break instead of providing desparately needed covering fire or keeping up with the formation..
8:00 The only way to see more than ~15 miles (24km) is with a HIGHLY elevated position, since the curvature of the Earth means that even ships, with their rooftop radars, can only see other ships from 15-18 miles away. you'd need several THOUSAND feet of elevation to see 25 miles (40km) distance. Typically, at or near ground level your sight is limited to about 5 miles (8km)
Damn, I'm 40 and I didn't know anything about snipers....props for making this informative video
its becos US army didnt capitalize on them much in the 1970's where u from, neighbor. My sniper book i bought from surplus store is made in 1984, and i can still taste the viet nam and the good gook food just by reading it
I'm a german marksman. But as I saw the soldiers lying for hours in the snow I knew I would be freeze to death in under 30 minutes. Not my job... 😆
As a canadian I thought, jesus those ghillie suits must be hot!
German military you say? Even you must admit that starting _two_ World Wars in the same century was a little excessive.
@@adamkane7513 He wasn't even born, what does it have to do with him?
@@13Badseed some people just suffer from their mental disabilities, especially on the internet
I used to go to paintball events with an older friend of mine. He made a ghillie suit. All the kids wanted to get him, but he really was good. He was like the like the Predator; he would disappear into the forest.
At a shop in Tempe, AZ, the counter guy showed me a heavily modified bolt action with a hair trigger that had to be ‘set.’ Sorry, can’t remember the make and model or even the caliber, but at first glance I thought it was a target or hunting rifle what with the wood furniture. Anyway, when I set the trigger, it was so unbelievably sensitive that I could barely put my finger on the trigger before it dry fired. It was absolutely amazing! So, question - do sniper rifles have hair triggers?