Well?

>>33204603
Ruskies every tiem. That farmer man was one in a hundred million. Not many like him and probably won't be anyone like him for a good long time.

How do you even get that many kills?

>>33204616
What did he really do that was special?

He made snow embankments to be flush with the end of his rifle, ate snow to hide his breath and had a fuckton of patience

>>33204637
Don't you know that 54R will explode the man's chest standing next to you?

>>33204637
Finnish propaganda

>>33204637
hit and run ... works pretty good ... especially when your enemies got bad winter equipment ... at least that's what I heard 'bout the red army back then

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Is this a Finland thread?

>>33204637
Russian incompetence, and actually having talent and nerve.

Also, much of the fighting he did was in heavily-wooded areas, lots of concealment, and little wind.

>>33204637
With 505 bullets

> 1 German shepherd .

>>33204637
he was a trapper/hunter by trade and knew the terrain well
about half of the kills are with the Finnish equivalent of a ppsh

he barely had any military training
but was mostly facing conscripts
later counter snipers were sent after him
and when that failed they just bombarded wherever they though he might be

>>33204802
And he lived to 96, lol

>>33204603

that old farmer also had USA surface to air missiles

>>33204868
in 1940?

>>33204878
>yo man, it's like 1940,
>S2A M's are sooo 1933

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>>33204828
>lived to 96
that must have trolled some ppl
his face did get kind of messed up
most likely seems 12.7 AA

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>>33204651
Its not the sub-zero temperature, its not the thousand lakes, its not the rifle, its not the dark sky only lit by the moon.
Its the man with the rifle in the sub-zero temperature, on the thousand lakes under the dark sky.

>>33204802

Do you actually know anything about Simo "Simuna" Häyhä?

Few facts:
1. He was a farmer, not a hunter by trade.

2. Simo was born in year 1905, he joined Finnish Civil Guard (Suojeluskunta) in year 1923 and continued to be its active member until Winter War. Civil Guard was all volunteer military organization independent from Finnish Armed Forces, during his time as guardsman he among other things received sniper training. He did his military service in Army as 1925 - 1926, got NCO-training in there and was transferred to reserves as corporal (alikersantti) of infantry.

3. Among other things in 1920's and 1930's Civil Guard was also the largest sports organizer in Finland which built sports fields, shooting ranges etc all over Finland organized competitions. Simo was very successful in their shooting competitions at that time, which probably explains why he was picked for sniper training.

4. Those famous 505 kills are with rifle only. Grand majority of them were witnessed by another soldier whose task was to assist him, but since he only had binoculars, wasn't always there and Simo used only iron sights nobody knows how many of those 505 were just wounded instead of killed. The other about 200 kills or so were with Suomi m/31 SMG, which he used when he was leading his squad.

5. The Soviets were normally shelling all over with their artillery, so it was not nothing unusual.

Only parts you got right were that the Soviets were mostly conscripts and later on snipers were sent after him (with him shooting at least one of them in sniper-duel).

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>>33204603

>>33204927

Soviet ZP-bullet for 7.62 x 54R:
http://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=2752

>>33204603
Thank god for war if there were no wars men could not kill each other without a clear conchunce or get away with murder

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>>33204675

>>33205018
>peace treaty
>in which Finland lost land

>>33205018
>peace treaty
Finns get out you lost the winter war.

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>>33204603
This guy vs 143 US marines

who win?

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>>33204950

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>>33205376
the Assualtman

>>33205018
>being this ass pained
Every side has stupid high false kill claims.

>>33205327
Tactical victory
Strategic loss

>>33204603
Well at the time, that rifle was pretty modern...

>>33204616
>not knowing what the Winter war was

>>33204637

Russians were disorganized in Finland to the point of hilarity. They were pretty much normally like that everywhere in the opening phase of WW2. Largely due to a laughing joke of a command staff they had, which was another reason for their defeat against Poland earlier as well.

Now imagine all of that but in a heavily wooded, swampy terrain that was frozen all year round. You had very little means of communication, your recon assets were pitiful, overall you were walking in blind.

And the Soviet soldiers paid for it. They paid first with their lives, then with their competence, until it was finally clear that the original attitude towards the entirety of Finland being conquerable in a matter of months had to be edited severely.

>>33204950
Context?

>>33208435
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Cain

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>>33207585