00:00 My name's Nicholas Irving.
00:01 I'm a former US Army Ranger Special Operations Sniper.
00:04 I'm also known as the Reaper for my 33 confirmed kills
00:08 in Afghanistan.
00:09 Today, I'm back again to look at some more sniper scenes
00:12 from TV and film and judge how real they are.
00:15 We don't know if the sniper truly sucked that bad
00:26 or his scope was just, like, not calibrated.
00:28 It wasn't zeroed properly.
00:30 He might have just faulty ammunition.
00:32 There's a lot of factors that go into that.
00:34 To stay still when you're pinned down by a sniper,
00:37 it's like almost a death wish.
00:40 It's just a matter of time before he's
00:42 going to figure something out to make those bullets impact.
00:45 Running zigzag patterns, getting out as fast as you can
00:48 is probably your best bet.
00:49 That's the only way me and my reconnaissance team,
00:52 when we were pinned down by an enemy sniper,
00:55 we had to get up and run away.
00:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:01 To prevent an enemy coming in to do what just happened here,
01:07 sneak up behind you.
01:08 In sniper school, they teach you no more than, like, two shots.
01:12 Two or three shots, your sniper hide is burnt.
01:15 You would want to move, ideally, to a new location.
01:19 Once you have a good sniper hide set up,
01:20 the odds of you, like, getting out after that second shot,
01:24 third shot, it's slim.
01:25 But there are countermeasures to deter people
01:29 from entering that sniper hide.
01:31 Like, for us, we might put up a claymore or some booby
01:34 traps or something like that behind us.
01:37 And even a guy with a machine gun
01:39 is usually watching our back.
01:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:44 It actually wasn't too bad.
01:48 And it's at nighttime with no night vision,
01:50 so I'll give them that.
01:52 We hit targets at nighttime.
01:55 But the distances are extremely close.
01:57 We had a sniper scope that was mounted with a PVS-14,
02:02 I believe, which is a night vision attachment that goes
02:06 on the front of your scope.
02:07 [GUNSHOTS]
02:10 Bolt guns, bolt rifles, they jam all the time,
02:15 especially in, like, dusty conditions.
02:17 That bolt gun, when you pull it back,
02:19 it's exposed to the elements.
02:22 And it's such a slower process, as opposed
02:24 to, like, a semi-automatic, where the bolt is coming back
02:26 extremely fast.
02:27 So it's more prone to collect dust and things of that nature
02:32 that would cause it to jam up.
02:34 Man, this is getting tough.
02:36 I don't know.
02:37 I'd give it a six, because realistically,
02:40 shooting at nighttime like that, I could see you missing that
02:43 much.
02:43 My favorite sniper scene of all time
02:47 would have to be from the movie "Lone Survivor."
02:50 They had their sniper rifle, and they were engaging targets
02:53 in the woods.
02:54 And that was, like, the most realistic war scene
02:57 I have ever seen in my life.
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03:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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