Waldo Jaquith

Mythbusters did the the same thing with the sniper scope and they had decent results. And I think there was a movie about a Russian v. German sniper that shot out the scope. Great wikipedia entry….

Posted by HES on 30 March 2010 @ 8pm

Great link about the Maitreya! What a gas. Thanks for sharing. :)

Posted by TrvlnMn on 30 March 2010 @ 8pm

There’s a History Channel show that comes on every once in a while. It delves into snipers and talks about Hathcock and goes through the whole sniper shot through another sniper’s barrel. I believe he also killed someone from one and a half miles away.

Posted by grs on 30 March 2010 @ 9pm

I don’t know that God can give clearer signs that he has a plan for you than having group of people you don’t know identify you as the messiah.

I didn’t know that some guy was identified as a reincarnation of a Hindu goddess and now lives in a temple in Gujarat. Some unemployed guy from the UK now a Hindu goddess. God works in mysterious ways. =)

Posted by tx2vadem on 30 March 2010 @ 11pm

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/267526/march-15-2010/i-can-t-believe-it-s-not-buddha—raj-patel

Posted by brian on 31 March 2010 @ 9am

HES,

You are thinking of ‘Enemy at the Gates.’ It was loosely based on a real story, although I don’t think that Vasily Zaytsev ever shot through Herr Koning’s scope during the actual 3 day duel.

Posted by Jack on 31 March 2010 @ 10am

Mythbusters recreated something approximating the bullet through the scope thing using Vietnam-era optics, but they also found that it’s impossible to accomplish the same thing with today’s optics: there are more lenses in a modern scope than in a historical piece, meaning there are too many convex surfaces that the bullet has to pass through without being deflected into the body of the scope itself.

I don’t know if anyone ever managed it before Hathcock and simply never had it confirmed, but I’m reasonable certain it will never happen again.

Posted by Sam on 31 March 2010 @ 5pm