Don F and RLoving,

Thanks for your comments on this thread. I have been following it and was reluctant to say anything because so much said via email language gets misconscrewed.
I was trainedas theMarksman/Shooter for the Special Ops team I was assigned to when in the military. I say shooter because we weren't really called snipers as this was when Special Ops was in its infancy for the mission types we were to be doing. I also shotfor the markmanship team winning 1St place junior shooter and competed in the 1980 Worldwide Championships held in San Antonio Texas.The training is intense and very mentally draining. It is a younger mans job!A time in life where the idea of taking another mans life doesn't mean as much as it may as one gets older. A time when you look forward to "action" and are almost on a high hoping for something to happen. I remember this vividly as if it were yesterday from a mission to Panama many years ago. As I have gotten older I have learned to value life differently. The trained "sniper" should have the mental capacity to deal with the senario whereas the average hunter would not.

I am a very avid hunter and have hunted in many areas of the world up close and personal. The scariest was probablyspending a whole day "In the Long Grass"tracking a wounded lion while hunting in Zimbabwe. But it is nothing compared to the thought of another human being possibly hunting you at the same time.

Sorry, guess I got off topic. So, what I am trying to say is....NO! The very best hunters will have an above average chance, but no match for a well trained sniper.

WW