A hit on a moving target from seventy-five feet is, without question, difficult. But in the subculture of military snipers, it is not particularly dazzling. In 1969, a legendary Marine sniper in Vietnam shot an enemy sniper from several hundred yards away. The shot, fired with less precise rounds and from a less powerful rifle than those used today, struck the hidden Vietcong fighter in the eye after traveling through his own scope. Adept marksmen can harness the wind to curve bullets around buildings and strike targets from a mile out. In recent years, coalition sharpshooters have struck
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