[quote]ORIGINAL: Pavomesa
ORIGINAL: jtb1967
ORIGINAL: Pavomesa
...As for repelling or protecting the family from other people, the lowly .22 is quite effective at that. The Russians used it very effectively as a sniping rifle against Germans in WW-2 and heaven only knows how many people a 22 has killed...
Is there any documented evidence of the Russians using a 22LR as a sniping round in WWII? I've never read anything about it.
Yes, it's well documented. I've read accounts of it but don't ask me to remember the publication and the History Channel mentioned it on one of their documantaries about WW-2. Keep in mind the Russians didn't have the cream of the crop for weapons and their partisans etc just used whatever they could get their hands on. They tried to go for the headshots as even the .22 was normally effective there.
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I'd say the History channel took something that happend very, very infrequently and made it sound like it was commone place. I'm not aware of any reliable sources that document the 22LR being commonly used by the Russians as a sniper weapon in WWII.