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Rifles of Simo Häyhä - The World's Greatest Sniper (w/ 9 Hole Reviews)
http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons <br> <br>https://www.floatplane.com/cha....nnel/ForgottenWeapon <br> <br>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons <br> <br>Thanks to Henry from 9 Hole Reviews for the guest segment! Check out his channel: <br>https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCsrKsXEAqCbZyVrCi <br> <br>In light of the approaching Finnish Brutality: The Winter War match, I though we could take a look at the two rifles associated with the world's most successful sniper: Simo Häyhä. Häyhä was born in 1905, joined the Civil Guard at the age of 17, and did his mandatory military service from 1925 to 1927. He was first issued an American-made New England Westinghouse M91 Mosin as a Guardsman. After being discharged from the Army in 1927, he returned to active Civil Guard membership while living and working on his family farm in Karelia. He developed a reputation as an excellent marksman, both in competitive shooting and as a hunter. <br> <br>When the Civil Guard developed the M28-30 pattern of Mosin, Häyhä was once of many who opted to pay a part of the cost to have his own personal rifle to keep at home, and it is with his personal M28-30 (slight correction from the video: Simo's rifle was s/n 35281, and had Civil Guard inventory number S60974.) that he went to war when the Soviet Union attacked in November 1939, starting the Winter War. The 28-30 featured a new style of sights to replace the Russian Konovalov pattern. Henry Chan from 9 Hole Reviews will give us some insight into why these sights were so excellent. In addition, the barrels were free-floated and the stocks made from two spliced pieces of wood to prevent changing temperatures and humidity from impacting rifle zero. <br> <br>In his 95 days of active service during the Winter War, Simo Häyhä was credited with 542 enemy soldiers killed - mostly with his M28-30 Mosin Nagant (although he did also use the Suomi SMG and LS-26 LMG at times). He finally ran out of luck on March 6, 1940 when he was hit in the face by a Soviet exploding bullet. He was in a coma for 6 days, and spent several months in hospital, where some 26 surgeries were necessary to reconstruct his jaw - and he was permanently disfigured. His name is permanently linked to snipers worldwide, and also to the Winter War legacy "Kollaa kestää" - "Kollaa holds". He lived a quiet bachelor life as a farmer after the war, breeding hunting dogs and occasionally doing things like taking the President of Finland moose hunting. He passed away peacefully in 2002 at the age of 96. <br> <br>For much more detail on Häyhä's life and practical shooting advice, I recommend "The White Sniper: Simo Häyhä" by Tapio Saarelainen: <br> <br>https://amzn.to/3brM12y <br> <br>Contact: <br>Forgotten Weapons <br>6281 N. Oracle #36270 <br>Tucson, AZ 85740
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With all the modern super precision rifles and optics, one thing apparent is that the best snipers in WW2 had really good plain rifles with iron sights and low spec optics - and while I think you can do much better with much better rifles and optics, it really pays if you can shoot properly in the first place - and perhaps get a lot of practice in too.
I can't recall the figure, and I don't want to go on a long missing to find out the historical records, so I will sort of make this up to make the point.
With the 0.303 Lee Enfield rifle, within the averages of manufacturing tolerances etc., most of them were generally very accurate, within a 10" radius grouping at 300 yards - but like say 1 in every 1000, was absolutely spot on at 3" radius grouping at 300 yards.
The really good ones, got given to the snipers.
However, it pays if you can actually hit almost everything, your attempting to kill, almost all the time.
In some sense the modern rifles- the best of - with brilliant optics, ammunition and training, are way better than the gear from WW2 - but it really helps if you can hit the fucking target in the first place.
Hence a really good quality basic rifle, with a simpler set up, is a much better option when hunting game within reasonable ranges, than the most sophisticated, technically precise snipers rifle that can pop a peanut at 1000 meters.
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Great video thank you for posting.
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