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To add to whiteguy's Simo Hayha post:

 

 

 

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Simo Hayha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken from Cracked.com:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.

 

 

 

Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you spot Hayha? Neither could the Russians.

 

 

 

Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got [bleep] scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.

 

 

 

They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.

 

 

 

Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.

 

 

 

Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.

 

 

 

Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the [bleep] White Death, damn it.

 

 

 

Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...

 

 

 

 

 

 

...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.

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Häyhä used a Finnish variant, M/28, of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle (known as "Pystykorva" rifle, meaning "spitz"), because it suited his small frame (5 ft 3 in/1.60 m). He preferred to use iron sights rather than telescopic sights to present a smaller target (the sniper must raise his head higher when using a telescopic sight), to prevent visibility risks (a telescopic sight's glass can fog up easily), and aid concealment (sunlight glare in telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper's position). Another tactic used by Häyhä was to freeze the snow in front of him so that the shot wouldn't puff the snow, thus revealing his position. He also kept snow in his mouth so that when breathing he wouldn't reveal his position.

 

 

 

The Soviets tried several ploys to get rid of him, including counter snipers and artillery strikes. On March 6 1940, Häyhä was shot in the jaw during combat. The bullet tumbled upon impact and left his head. He picked up his rifle and fired a round, killing his attacker. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his head was missing". He regained consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared. Shortly after the war, Häyhä was promoted straight from corporal to second lieutenant by Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. No one else has ever gained rank in such a quick fashion in Finland's military history.

 

 

 

Just some extra info that I thought was f---ing amazing.

 

 

 

This guy's pretty damn beastly. Thanks, whiteguy, for sharing.

[Seraphi]

To add to whiteguy's Simo Hayha post:

 

 

 

[hide=whiteguy's Simo Hayha post]

Simo Hayha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken from Cracked.com:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.

 

 

 

Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you spot Hayha? Neither could the Russians.

 

 

 

Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got [bleep] scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.

 

 

 

They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.

 

 

 

Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.

 

 

 

Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.

 

 

 

Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the [bleep] White Death, damn it.

 

 

 

Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...

 

 

 

 

 

 

...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.

[/hide]

 

Häyhä used a Finnish variant, M/28, of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle (known as "Pystykorva" rifle, meaning "spitz"), because it suited his small frame (5 ft 3 in/1.60 m). He preferred to use iron sights rather than telescopic sights to present a smaller target (the sniper must raise his head higher when using a telescopic sight), to prevent visibility risks (a telescopic sight's glass can fog up easily), and aid concealment (sunlight glare in telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper's position). Another tactic used by Häyhä was to freeze the snow in front of him so that the shot wouldn't puff the snow, thus revealing his position. He also kept snow in his mouth so that when breathing he wouldn't reveal his position.

 

 

 

The Soviets tried several ploys to get rid of him, including counter snipers and artillery strikes. On March 6 1940, Häyhä was shot in the jaw during combat. The bullet tumbled upon impact and left his head. He picked up his rifle and fired a round, killing his attacker. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his head was missing". He regained consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared. Shortly after the war, Häyhä was promoted straight from corporal to second lieutenant by Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. No one else has ever gained rank in such a quick fashion in Finland's military history.

 

 

 

Just some extra info that I thought was f---ing amazing.

 

 

 

This guy's pretty damn beastly. Thanks, whiteguy, for sharing.

 

 

 

So let me get this straight....He had been shot in the face and was missing half of his head, and he picked his gun back up, aimed, and killed the person who shot him....

 

Jesus Christ they need to make a movie out of that.

[Skull]

To add to whiteguy's Simo Hayha post:

 

 

 

[hide=whiteguy's Simo Hayha post]

Simo Hayha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken from Cracked.com:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.

 

 

 

Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you spot Hayha? Neither could the Russians.

 

 

 

Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got [bleep] scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.

 

 

 

They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.

 

 

 

Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.

 

 

 

Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.

 

 

 

Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the [bleep] White Death, damn it.

 

 

 

Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...

 

 

 

 

 

 

...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.

[/hide]

 

Häyhä used a Finnish variant, M/28, of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle (known as "Pystykorva" rifle, meaning "spitz"), because it suited his small frame (5 ft 3 in/1.60 m). He preferred to use iron sights rather than telescopic sights to present a smaller target (the sniper must raise his head higher when using a telescopic sight), to prevent visibility risks (a telescopic sight's glass can fog up easily), and aid concealment (sunlight glare in telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper's position). Another tactic used by Häyhä was to freeze the snow in front of him so that the shot wouldn't puff the snow, thus revealing his position. He also kept snow in his mouth so that when breathing he wouldn't reveal his position.

 

 

 

The Soviets tried several ploys to get rid of him, including counter snipers and artillery strikes. On March 6 1940, Häyhä was shot in the jaw during combat. The bullet tumbled upon impact and left his head. He picked up his rifle and fired a round, killing his attacker. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his head was missing". He regained consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared. Shortly after the war, Häyhä was promoted straight from corporal to second lieutenant by Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. No one else has ever gained rank in such a quick fashion in Finland's military history.

 

 

 

Just some extra info that I thought was f---ing amazing.

 

 

 

This guy's pretty damn beastly. Thanks, whiteguy, for sharing.

 

 

 

So let me get this straight....He had been shot in the face and was missing half of his head, and he picked his gun back up, aimed, and killed the person who shot him....

 

Jesus Christ they need to make a movie out of that.

 

Ever seen Enemy at the Gates? It's a movie about the Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev, who was pretty badass himself. I really liked it, you might too.

[1_man_army]

 

 

 

So let me get this straight....He had been shot in the face and was missing half of his head, and he picked his gun back up, aimed, and killed the person who shot him....

 

Jesus Christ they need to make a movie out of that.

 

 

 

He was shot in the jaw, it wasn't like it was half of his cranium that was gone. Still impressive as hell though.

[Star_Fox]

mind as well switch the title name to simo hayha's badassery if everyone is just going to talk about some serial killer. :-w :roll:

 

 

 

oh well. i'm out.

[rangeor]

These two guys are pretty badass

 

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[Lenticular_J]

Audie Murphy was pretty badass. But so was Hiroo Onoda. He was a Japanese soldier who didn't surrender until 1974. He lived alone and would kill and steal to survive.

[Dexek]

Audie Murphy is quite interesting, but in my opinion Simo Häyhä takes the cake. I'm interested to read into any other stories as well. These are great. :thumbsup:

[AceBeam]

Aron Ralston.

 

A random hiker guy got his arm stuck when a boulder fell on him. He chipped at the rock with his cheap utility knife for 5 days, gave up on that, broke his arm, and proceeded to cut it off with his (beaten from chipping at a rock for 5 days) dull $5 Utility knife and some pliers. He then went on to climb down the 65ft mountain and walked into some peoples house and ate oreos.

 

 

 

 

 

HE CHOPPED HIS FRIGGIN ARM OFF WITH A DULL, RUST, BENT KNIFE AND PLIERS... AND ATE OREOS SHORTLY AFTER. I don't think YOU'D be eating oreos after that. Nope. You wouldn't.

[FlameHawk18]

Aron Ralston.

 

A random hiker guy got his arm stuck when a boulder fell on him. He chipped at the rock with his cheap utility knife for 5 days, gave up on that, broke his arm, and proceeded to cut it off with his (beaten from chipping at a rock for 5 days) dull $5 Utility knife and some pliers. He then went on to climb down the 65ft mountain and walked into some peoples house and ate oreos.

 

 

 

 

 

HE CHOPPED HIS FRIGGIN ARM OFF WITH A DULL, RUST, BENT KNIFE AND PLIERS... AND ATE OREOS SHORTLY AFTER. I don't think YOU'D be eating oreos after that. Nope. You wouldn't.

 

:shock:

[AceBeam]

Yeah, that's right. HE SHRUGS IT OFF AND GOES AND EATS SOME OREOS.

[mcneilp]

That Finnish sniper is incredible. Very impressive. :shock:

[deathdrow]

Yeah, that's right. HE SHRUGS IT OFF AND GOES AND EATS SOME OREOS.

 

He needed to break the bone on his arm, so he'd lift himself up with his holdey stringey rope thing, and drop down, several times, then he went and drank water from a puddle with a dead bird or something like that in it.

[AceBeam]

Even MORE awesome.

[Pawn]

In b4 Chuck Norris and Technoviking.... oh wait too late :-#

 

 

 

Okita S?ji, killed a master samurai at the age of 12.

[warren211]

[hide=Simo Hayha]

Simo Hayha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken from Cracked.com:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.

 

 

 

Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you spot Hayha? Neither could the Russians.

 

 

 

Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got [bleep] scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.

 

 

 

They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.

 

 

 

Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.

 

 

 

Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.

 

 

 

Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the [bleep] White Death, damn it.

 

 

 

Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...

 

 

 

 

 

 

...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.

[/hide]

 

 

 

Finland is a pretty bad [wagon] nation. The winter war was their shining moment:

 

 

 

 

They were severely outnumbered and fought on skis to defend their homeland. Many citizens who didn't fight in the war allegedly burned their own houses down or placed bombs in the chimneys before evacuating to prevent Russians from using the houses for shelter. I really wish I was Finnish just to brag about how badass my nation was during the Winter War.

 

 

 

I really don't want to get on Finland's bad side now.

[RichieMcD]

The Finish sniper without a doubt.

 

 

 

Out of people I know, well my dad was playing hurling (Irish sport) while I was watching it from the sidelines in a local park when a pedophile tryed to abduct me. He lead me about 100 yards away towards the main road, my dad saw that and left the pitch Hurl in hand, hit the guy over the head with his hurl knocking him unconcious, lead me back over to the subs bench and told his friend

 

"Séan would you keep an eye on him for [bleep] sake."

 

In a thick Irish accent, ran back onto the pitch and scored a goal in 20 seconds.

 

 

 

Comprises everything needed in a manly story, sports, swearing and fighting. Pretty funny moment

[Nenga]

[hide=Simo Hayha]

Simo Hayha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken from Cracked.com:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.

 

 

 

Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you spot Hayha? Neither could the Russians.

 

 

 

Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got [bleep] scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.

 

 

 

They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.

 

 

 

Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.

 

 

 

Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.

 

 

 

Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the [bleep] White Death, damn it.

 

 

 

Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...

 

 

 

 

 

 

...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.

[/hide]

 

 

 

Finland is a pretty bad [wagon] nation. The winter war was their shining moment:

 

 

 

 

They were severely outnumbered and fought on skis to defend their homeland. Many citizens who didn't fight in the war allegedly burned their own houses down or placed bombs in the chimneys before evacuating to prevent Russians from using the houses for shelter. I really wish I was Finnish just to brag about how badass my nation was during the Winter War.

 

 

 

I really don't want to get on Finland's bad side now.

 

Wow that is pretty crazy but still can't beat one guy killing 700+ people after only 1 year in the military. So who is Finland allied with again?

[i_love_burritos]

The Finish sniper without a doubt.

 

 

 

Out of people I know, well my dad was playing hurling (Irish sport) while I was watching it from the sidelines in a local park when a pedophile tryed to abduct me. He lead me about 100 yards away towards the main road, my dad saw that and left the pitch Hurl in hand, hit the guy over the head with his hurl knocking him unconcious, lead me back over to the subs bench and told his friend

 

"Séan would you keep an eye on him for [bleep] sake."

 

In a thick Irish accent, ran back onto the pitch and scored a goal in 20 seconds.

 

 

 

Comprises everything needed in a manly story, sports, swearing and fighting. Pretty funny moment

 

 

 

 

 

Holy [cabbage] that was cool.

 

 

 

I like the Finnish Sniper aswell, but also that Yogendra Singh Yadav, I think is on an equal level with Simo Hayha purley because he was much younger. Read the last paragraph of #4. I'm referring to that cracked article. .html]Link.

[Joes_So_Cool]

Does anyone else have any cool stories they know about things somewhat like that sniper? That really did actually catch my interest, and not much does.

[H2PM]

Uma Thornmen.

 

(Spell check?)

 

 

 

If you know who she is..Yeah..Lets just leave it at that...

[Riku3220]

Uma Thornmen.

 

(Spell check?)

 

 

 

If you know who she is..Yeah..Lets just leave it at that...

 

This lady? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Thurman

 

 

 

She's just an actress...

 

 

 

EDIT: I AM MISTAKEN! SHE PLAYED IN GATTACA AND PULP FICTION. SHE IS AWESOME BY MY STANDARDS BUT SHE STILL DOESN'T MAKE MOST BADASS.

[H2PM]

Uma Thornmen.

 

(Spell check?)

 

 

 

If you know who she is..Yeah..Lets just leave it at that...

 

This lady? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Thurman

 

 

 

She's just an actress...

 

 

 

EDIT: I AM MISTAKEN! SHE PLAYED IN GATTACA AND PULP FICTION. SHE IS AWESOME BY MY STANDARDS BUT SHE STILL DOESN'T MAKE MOST BADASS.

 

Yes, but the people who have seen Kill Bill would know what I mean.

[Nenga]

Uma Thornmen.

 

(Spell check?)

 

 

 

If you know who she is..Yeah..Lets just leave it at that...

 

This lady? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Thurman

 

 

 

She's just an actress...

 

 

 

EDIT: I AM MISTAKEN! SHE PLAYED IN GATTACA AND PULP FICTION. SHE IS AWESOME BY MY STANDARDS BUT SHE STILL DOESN'T MAKE MOST BADASS.

 

Yes, but the people who have seen Kill Bill would know what I mean.

 

It's just acting in a movie. Real life badass > movie badass

[Lenticular_J]

Wow that is pretty crazy but still can't beat one guy killing 700+ people after only 1 year in the military. So who is Finland allied with again?

 

Nobody. And I'm not gonna check under your bed tonight, kiddo.