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He originally served as a military policeman, but quickly transferred to the 1st Marine Sniper Platoon. On one occasion, he slinked on his belly for three days to close within meters of his target, a North Vietnamese general, before picking him off. In another, he took out a notorious female North Vietnamese platoon leader who had a reputation for torturing her prisoners.

During his career in the Marines, Hathcock even set the record for longest sniper kill. In , Hathcock started his deployment in South Vietnam. He initially served as a military policeman and later, owing to his reputation as a skilled marksman, served as a sniper.

Hathcock estimated that he actually killed between and enemy soldiers. The enemy placed a bounty on his head. After a platoon of Vietnamese snipers tried to hunt him down, many Marines donned white feathers to deceive the enemy.

Hathcock successfully fought off numerous enemy snipers during the remainder of his deployment. Hathcock did once remove the white feather from his bush hat during a volunteer mission. The mission was so risky he was not informed of its details until he accepted it.

Transported to a field by helicopter, Hathcock crawled over 1, yards in a span of four days and three nights, without sleep, to assassinate an NVA general. At times, Hathcock was only a few feet away from patrolling enemy soldiers. He was also nearly bitten by a snake.

Once in position, Hathcock waited for the general to exit his encampment before shooting. After completing this mission, Hathcock came back to the United States in The trigger is exceptional. A little take up, which is common in two-stage triggers, and two pounds later—GONE. It is smooth, crisp,and true. The fattened grip of the McMillan stock put the correct part of my finger right where it needed to be on the trigger. A good trigger is directly proportional to accuracy, and this trigger is great.

A rifle of this quality warrants a precise tactical grade scope. This reticle expands on the Mil Dot design and offers more ranging tools by giving various sizes and spaced aiming points on the vertical and horizontal stadia. The accompanying manual gives the shooter necessary information and data to estimate range and drop compensation for both tactical and snap shooting conditions. The Mark 4 I had was built with the reticle in the second focal plane.

With variable-power scopes there is the option of placing the reticle in the first or second focal plane. In the first plane the size of the reticle changes with the change in power. This allows range estimation at any power setting. In the second focal plane the reticle remains the same size and range estimation has to be done at the highest power settings. There are pros and cons to each system and this should be considered when choosing equipment for the intended mission.

What I like about the second-plane reticle is you see the same reticle size every time you shoulder the rifle. It adds a bit of consistency to aiming which is part of the precision game. Now for the fun part. After mounting the scope I took the White Feather to the range. The first outing was to get it sighted in and see what kind of yard groups I could get.

I shot the rifle with a supported bipod and sandbags under the stock from my Idaho shooting bench pickup truck hood. The weight of the rifle along with the gas piston action made the.

This is a pleasant rifle to shoot and the M style action operated cleanly and without flaw every time. This rifle would easily be acceptable for a police marksman and most military missions.

I shot Federal Premium Vital-Shock ammo along with some of my reloads I use in my Model Remington both topped with grain pills. I had an opportunity to take the M to a yard practice match and see what it would do. One thing that was immediately obvious is my loads were coming into the target at sub-sonic velocities. The pit crew reported this to me.

The loads were made for my rifle, which has a much longer barrel than the inch M, but after doping the wind and some elevation corrections I could keep them in the black.