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So , FOUR[counting the Korean]high ranking officers don't know what an enemy sniper is?

Leave the plaque alone. To change it would debase a significant artifact. I frankly can easily believe that the shots were made at the distances stated.

Some of you have no frame of reference for what is possible, even doable on a regular basis with a good rifle at long range by a man who knows how to use it. Here is a case in point. As has already been pointed out, Jim Terry went 5 out of 6 on a hostile target at 1538 yards with a 45-110 Sharps a while back. A couple of you had trouble believing or accepting that, thinking it was luck.

Here is your reality check. I know Jim Terry, have known him for years, and have competed with him many times. Yes, he hit the hostile 5/6. But there were several other shooters at that match that went four out of six, and didn't win. While Jimbo is one of the better shots at that game, there are a lot of other guys that did not find what he did to be astounding. They do the same thing on a regular basis.

You may be surprised to find out that there is an annual match held on the Wasserburger Ranch outside of Lusk, Wyoming where the targets are set at a surveyed mile from the firing line. The match is shot with buffalo rifles, mainly Sharps, using IRON SIGHTS. Jim Terry and a number of other guys not only shoot there, they regularly shoot and hit at distances that many of you can't comprehend.

My hunting rifle is a Sharps, equipped with open iron sights. No scope. I PRACTICE on a regular basis by shooting gallon milk jugs filled with water at 400 and 500 yards several times a week. A man that truly knows his rifle and knows how to use it can successfully engage targets at ranges others do not believe, and even after they see it they will call it a lucky shot. It's not always luck, trust me.

WOW!!!! That's one fancy sniper rifle. Thanks for sharing.

Just for the record , your military experience is............?

I doubt the ranges were wrong. An artillery unit could easily survey the distances. Shots of two hundred yards would have hardly been worth remarking about and would have been far more likely to have been engaged by the whole outfit, a machine gun, or a mortar than a lone rifleman.

The only thing I find a little dubious is calling the enemy KIA "snipers". I can see a situation where the generals were visiting the line and someone may have remarked about the CPT being a fine shot and his unusual rifle that he brought from home. Then coincidentally and fortuitously, some enemy became visible at those extreme ranges and one of the generals said something like "Captain, why you have a go at some of those guys with that fancy rifle of your."

Maybe not as much a flight of ballistic fancy as one would imagine. There were probably several 1919 machine guns on the line firing 30-06 with tracers mixed in every fifth round. A guy standing out there and watching those tracers arc over day after day at targets on distant hillsides would have a FAR greater appreciation of how high to aim and would be able to make a FAR more educated guess of where to aim than your average guy.

In the later stages, Korea was like WW I. Guys in trenches looking over the same terrain day after day.

And they were able to differentiate between 1938 and 1942 yards using a nearby object as a reference?

The engraving lists the yards they were killed at, not the miles. I don't think they gave the engraver instructions to engrave 193.8 yards, it was intentionally 1938. You may not believe it, but that's what it's meant to be.