Snipers, an enlightened view

No, he's got a point. There IS an accurate application of the term when one looks at the initial derivation of the word and what it entailed.

In the original sense of the word, yes, there are snipers in paintball, in exactly the context that Seb has mentioned.

The application of the evolved term is erronious however, given the more complex components of the term.

I wonder how long before I'm gonna have to lock this.

Reb Cpl wrote: No, he's got a point. There IS an accurate application of the term when one looks at the initial derivation of the word and what it entailed. In the original sense of the word, yes, there are snipers in paintball, in exactly the context that Seb has mentioned. The application of the evolved term is erronious however, given the more complex components of the term. I wonder how long before I'm gonna have to lock this.

No...That was confusing. Sadly I understood Dave.

The modern image and tactics of snipers, with there special camo suites or guile suites, originated during the first world war. There were these Scottish marksmen who were hired by this rich landowner to protect his livestock, they invented a type of camouflage suite that could blend in to any environment using torn rags and stuff that were natural colors, they were later employed by the British army as snipers. But you don’t have to sneak around wearing a bush to be a sniper, in WW 2 there were snipers in both the American and British armies who wore regular uniforms and advanced w/ their squad of regular infantrymen, in short they were just regular soldiers who were very good shots and had a scoped M-1903 riffle instead of an M-1.

Reb Cpl wrote: You misunderstood that? I thought it was a rather lucid and comprehensible assessment.

AHHH CURSE YOU and your big fancy words!!!! j/k.

MT. Vigilante wrote: The modern image and tactics of snipers, with there special camo suites or guile suites, originated during the first world war. There were these Scottish marksmen who were hired by this rich landowner to protect his livestock, they invented a type of camouflage suite that could blend in to any environment using torn rags and stuff that were natural colors, they were later employed by the British army as snipers. But you don’t have to sneak around wearing a bush to be a sniper, in WW 2 there were snipers in both the American and British armies who wore regular uniforms and advanced w/ their squad of regular infantrymen, in short they were just regular soldiers who were very good shots and had a scoped M-1903 riffle instead of an M-1.

Not a bad recitation. Its a little deeper than that, but it'll serve. *Stealth* and I put together a rather brilliant little post concerning the origins and the history of the term and its applications...that was a long time ago.

Reb Cpl wrote: MT. Vigilante wrote: The modern image and tactics of snipers, with there special camo suites or guile suites, originated during the first world war. There were these Scottish marksmen who were hired by this rich landowner to protect his livestock, they invented a type of camouflage suite that could blend in to any environment using torn rags and stuff that were natural colors, they were later employed by the British army as snipers. But you don’t have to sneak around wearing a bush to be a sniper, in WW 2 there were snipers in both the American and British armies who wore regular uniforms and advanced w/ their squad of regular infantrymen, in short they were just regular soldiers who were very good shots and had a scoped M-1903 riffle instead of an M-1. Not a bad recitation. Its a little deeper than that, but it'll serve. *Stealth* and I put together a rather brilliant little post concerning the origins and the history of the term and its applications...that was a long time ago.

Yea, I was just trying to give a basic summary of the origins of the modern sniper, the whole Idea of snipers in warfare actually originates with us Americans in the Revolutionary war, although they weren’t called snipers then. But I’m sure you knew that.