2.9 – The Once and Future Sniper

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What’s the quality that defines a sniper? Is it the pulling of the trigger? The skilled stalking of their target in the hours or days prior to making a shot? The mathematical and physics-based knowledge that prevents them from making an error?

In our season finale, we look at the future of the sniper and whether the mythos they’ve cultivated over the centuries can withstand scopes that aim for them, guns that can fire thousands of yards, and robots that do what they do, only better.


Music in this episode was brought to you by: Blue Dot Sessions

2.8 – The White Feather

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In the Vietnam War, snipers returned to some of their earliest environmental roots while simultaneously reaching the pinnacle of their development: taking part in long missions, independently, where high value targets were taken out. Carlos Hathcock, a Marine from Arkansas, would grow to become one of the best of them.


Music in this episode was brought to you by: Chris Zabriskie, Blue Dot Sessions, Sergey Cheremisinov

2.7 – A Soviet Sniper’s American Journey

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By the time Lyudmila Pavlichenko joined the rest of her peers at the International Student Assembly at American University in Washington, DC, much of the country knew her name. As well as the Nazis who despised her for the deadly aim she took with her rifle.


Music in this episode was brought to you by: Blue Dot Sessions (Paper Feather, Hickory Shed, Hickory Interlude), Kai Engel (Visum, December), Chris Zabriskie – The Sun Is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow

2.6 – The White Death

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When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in late 1939—the action that kicked off the Winter War—they expected an easy fight, if there was one at all. Instead, they found a military with an intimate knowledge of Finland’s terrain, and one that was willing to fight. Among them was a man who very nearly became one with the freezing environment in an effort to take a stand against the invading nation.


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2.5 – A Duel in the Trenches

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We know World War I for a number of things: trenches, poison gas, the ever-present thrum of artillery. But it also served as the birthplace of the sniper. And one of the best couldn’t be found on the Western, or even Eastern Front. Instead, Billy Sing fought on the shores of Gallipoli.


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