I still think it has to be simo Hayha, but I'm aware him fighting on home ground against russians is rather big advantage. I would just ignore his machine gun kills almost altogether due to the fact how good/easy targets russians were.

What are best snipers in your opinion or any comments on other good snipers? I rate Hayha highly since his only motive was to defend his country and he was pretty good at doing that and very down to earth.

source for Friday night reading about him: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html



Official standard boring one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

Vasily Zaytsev is the only one that comes to mind.

Kind of hard to argue with the nomination of Hayha, if one goes by kills.

As a whole, the WWII Red Army had the most successful snipers of any war. They had more than fifty snipers with over 100 confirmed kills. Six of these were women. Vasily Zaytsev is famous but not in the top ten in terms of kills.

Top sniper in WWI was Canadian Ojibway Cpl. Francis Pegahmagabow, MM+2 bars, with 378 kills and over 300 prisoners captured, as well as other acts of bravery.

But frankly, I don't know what the qualification is for "Best sniper". Is it highest body count, longest shot, most important victim, or something else?

The longest unconfirmed anonymous kill is by some nameless Australian commando in Afghanistan at 2815m. The longest confirmed kill is by British CoH Craig Harrison of the Household Cavalry - Life Guards at 2475m. The next two on the list are Canadians Cpl Rob Furlong and MCpl Arron Perry of 3Bn, PPCLI at 2430m and 2310m respectively.

That dude is definitely a supreme bad ass.

I loled at "camping ***"

thanks for that

Carlos Hathcock

Brought about the idea of using the .50 cal
His mission to kill an NVA general was insane.
Helped found the scout sniper school

Not only most kills, longest shot etc but I would like to know worst miss(in a sense of someone been able to kill head of the state or other leader and change the history but missed). I also would like to know of one kill by sniper who actually possibly saved thousands of people by taking tyrant out.

Just feel some snipers have had power to change history with one shot (Not always for good. Could be have a reason for another war).

what about US Marine Chris Kyle?

With 255 kills, 160 of them officially confirmed by the Pentagon, the retired Navy Seal sniper is the deadliest marksman in US military history.


Despite the incredible number, Mr Kyle is still far from being the deadliest marksman in the world. That distinction goes to Simo Häyhä, a Finnish soldier who killed 542 Soviet soldiers during World War II.

http://nypost.com/2012/01/01/meet-the-big-shot/

In north-central Texas, Kyle grew up dipping tobacco, riding horses and hunting deer, turkey and quail — a cowboy at heart.
He got his first gun at 8 years old — a bolt-action 30-06 rifle.
The son of a Sunday-school teacher and a church deacon, Kyle credits a higher authority for his longest kill.
From 2,100 yards away from a village just outside of Sadr City in 2008, he spied a man aiming a rocket launcher at an Army convoy and squeezed off one shot from his .338 Lapua Magnum rifle.