Sniper turned tide against terrorists in battle, killing '250 ISIS fighters'

That would put Simo Hayha's record to shame. I wonder how many of these are confirmed kills.

 

gives new meaning to, "shotgun wedding"..

 

we never know the full extent of women in any country's military.

 

Not really. Simo wasnt a sniper the way we usually think of them. Starting with equipment. He didnt use a scope and his kills were generally well within normally combat range. Think of him as a snow ninja.

 

I could see snow ninja when talking about his subgun kills, but when i read the stories about the rifle kills i imagine a farm boy hunting game and that fits in with the sniper role for me (sniping). Not necessarily wearing a pee-soaked ghillie suit sitting motionless for days at a time. My understanding is that he purposely didn't use optics because he had learned to use use the Russians' glare to place shots.

 

You pretty much got it. He also didnt like optics because he felt they forced him to expose more of his head to use them.