Forgotten rifle of the Vietnam War: The silent sniper | SOFREP

I saw one once. I do remember back in 68 when GI showed us his night vision scope. We were on bunker duty, it was like 10pm and I looked into that scope it was weird. All I saw was light-green haze on everything. I could almost see through tree, or so it seemed. That was the first night vision I had ever seen or heard of.

Thank you for the great article, Wayne! When I worked nuclear security, I had one guy working for me who had been a sniper in 'Nam. He never said much about it, but since I was the lead firearms instructor for the force, we talked a lot about weapons in general. He came to me one day and said I had to see what his son had just given him. He showed me a picture of a Winchester Model 70 with an ART scope on it and said it was what he used in-country. It wasn't the exact one, but the serial numbers were correct for the era. (Yeah, like a good Marine he still remembered both of them.) I do not remember if it had a Starlight or not. I never saw a man as proud of a son or a gift as he was right then.