did not use a scope to forge his legendary sniper count what
what's good youtube it is your boy geoboss here and uh today we're going to be doing
a reaction video that was actually suggested a few times and uh this is gonna be the deadliest sniper
in military history uh according to the suggestions uh he's finished and um i do know that
we have the american sniper which is a legendary one and um even uh in when i'm playing video games
that's the sniper name i go by american sniper because i do love sniping uh military stuff i
do love it a lot i unfortunately never got to be a part of the military because of um family
reasons right i would be way too dedicated and i would have missed out on family life so i chose
family over the military but um yeah either ways we're going to be doing this reaction right now so
i do hope you guys enjoy hopefully this is very entertaining and informative uh leave a like on
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when world war ii broke out in 1939 the soviet union decided to invade finland while everyone
else was preoccupied with the war in europe but a sniper named simo heiha came to finland's defense
heiha allegedly eliminated a staggering 505 enemy soldiers which if accurate would make
him the single deadliest sniper in history today we're looking at the man simo hey ha and
his unbelievable marksmanship but before we get started be sure to subscribe to the weird history
channel simo would have wanted it that way all right let's get sniping as you might imagine the
invading soviet soldiers grew to be straight up terrified of heiha having to patrol the blanched
finnish wilderness with the knowledge that heiha could be out there waiting to ping them with a
spectacular long distance shot earned him the nickname bella smart which is russian for white
death however he has fellow finnish soldiers had a completely different name for him they called
him they should put buddy in call of duty they should put him on call i don't even know if he's
a corrector in call of duty but i would definitely buy this character in call of duty y'all let me
know bro because i like it the white death i like that in the german uh translation not the
german uh origin that they have i like that but the white death throat that in that's that's fine
magic shooter well that nickname may have been as accurate as heiha himself we have to admit it is
somewhat less intimidating than white death simo's exact sniper count varies depending on the source
some suggest he downed as many as 542 soviet soldiers with his rifle but no one claims he
eliminated any less than 505 this makes him the most effective sniper in any war with soviet
sniper ivan siddirenko sitting at a close second with 500 kills however heiha's count may even be
higher rather than stay at a comfortable distance behind his sniper rifle for the entire war
heiha may have also cut down several hundred enemy combatants with a submachine gun if true that
would put his count at approximately 800. zemo that is a frightening number impressive sure but
holy cow you're really good at your job the winter war lasted for a single winter as its name
suggests which means hey ha was putting in serious work in order to achieve his staggering record
heihal was eliminating an average of five to six enemy soldiers every day yes sir of course
some days were better than others wrapped up a terrifying 40 confirmed kills in a single day
scoring 25 and 20 on two other record days the cloud of perpetual death in which he lived saw
him promoted from corporal to second lieutenant the biggest rank jump in the history of finland's
military heiha did not use a scope to forge his legendary sniper count what
that's cat that knob
how you gonna pull this what how are you gonna have a sniper without it
i don't know bro i don't know if not what he preferred to use the plain old
iron sight on his rifle yeah no scope he's just an all-around old-fashioned badass
beyond being hardcore there was a strategic reason for this beyond just showing off heihal recognized
that scopes made his enemies an easy target in addition to making the target slightly bigger
scopes would glint in the sunlight allowing heihah to spot enemy snipers before they spotted him
at the time every finnish citizen was required to do one year of military service and heiha
had done his 14 years earlier back in 1925. that was the extent of his military experience
he did join the finnish civil guard as reservist which is essentially the equivalent to the u.s
national guard but he stuck to a civilian life of hunting and farming right up until the soviets
decided to invade in 1939 at which point he was summoned back to service if his hunting record was
anything like his war record we suspect the deer around heiha's home had a nickname for him too
after he completed his year of mandatory service in 1925 heiha was given the option to purchase
his service weapon let's throw bolt action y'all know that bolt action right there bro
those are one of the hardest snipers to use like in range bro but you see when you're
good at using that bro i'm telling you bro ain't no sniper in the world
that you cannot use i do love a barrack i do love that sniper i really do love that i just like a
big heavy duty sniper rifle but i'm telling you bro that type of sniper right there
hardscope iron scope whatever
he bad though i give him his flowers he's bad if that's what he used to take out 500 dudes he's bad
standard bolt action rifle he bought the gun and spent the next decade and a half mastering it when
he was called back to duty during the winter war hey ha brought his old bolt action rifle turning
down a more modern rifle with advanced optics the extreme cold which ranged anywhere from minus 20
to minus 40 degrees fahrenheit caused frequent weapon male functions among his fellow soldiers
but heiha's experience with his bolt action bff how minus 24 in height bro minus 24 in height
is like what minus 24 in height is like so low in celsius what the hell bro bro what the hell
oh my gosh this is this this video is it's very
very very informative allowed him to keep the gun functional throughout the winter
while only having minimal military experience wasn't possessed by the lord of incredible aim
he developed his skill from being a competitive sharpshooter having
grown up a few miles away from the civil guard shooting range which held
annual contests pehau regularly participated in these competitions
packing his house full of trophies among his accomplishments was the ability to hit a target
with his rifle 16 times in a minute at a range of 500 feet the talent best described as supernatural
heiha was deployed to the kola battlefield where he and 31 other soldiers were tasked with holding
off an invading force of 4 000 soviet troops despite having fewer men on the roster than a
college football team heiha's group managed to hold their ground for the entire winter
that's some good goal line defense right there he and his fellow finns had a few other advantages
beyond his angel of death status as a sniper for instance the soviet troops all wore bright green
uniforms which made them stand out like decorated christmas trees against the snow like that was the
stupidest thing i've ever heard about like the soviets like they they the finns were wearing
like literally white clothes to to um blend in with the snow while these dudes came around here
like it was christmas time bro it was christmas time but you dude what's up with the bright
colors bro you're going to war but i did watch the video with the cold war and it actually told
about that so i do know that actually a white landscape what also didn't help the soviets was
they lacked officers with any leadership skills mainly because stalin had them all executed when
he purged the ussr of any potential political opponents and even though the soviet invasion
of finland was technically successful they only managed to capture a relatively small amount of
border territory leaving the rest of the country intact all told the soviets suffered nearly 400
000 casualties during the winter war compared to the 66 000 suffered by finland
most snipers shoot while lying flat on their stomachs because it gives enemies a smaller target
to aim at peyja fired from a sitting position because he felt the position was better for his
aim he didn't worry too much about making himself a bigger target as he was just a biscuit over
five feet tall and would conceal himself in snow banks and put snow in his mouth to hide his breath
additionally hey how would pack snow in front of his rifle barrel or pour water on it to freeze
it so that smoke would not rise from it after he fired and give away his position and in perhaps
the biggest departure from sniper etiquette rather than going for the head heiha aimed for the center
mass of his targets which is effective in wartime but won't do him any favors on the black ops
4 leaderboards like i i think there's a major strategy with ayman right at the chest because
that headshot will happen when that rifle goes up because some of the times you're shooting right
when you aim for the head sometimes i'm telling you that shot is going to go all the way over
right especially if you're using something like an ak or one of them assault rifle or something bro
like i mean straight up you don't want to be aiming for the head all the time because i'm
telling you you have a higher chance of missing like even though he's saying with the call of duty
black ops i do think that if you aim literally like close range obviously aiming for the head
is going to be much more effective right but long distance with that drifting and the bullet
changing direction and all that kind of stuff bro i'm telling you amen for a solid area where
bullet drift is not going to go far i'm telling you that chess area is the best in my opinion
that's that's the kind of bullets that i like i like explosive rounds
yeah they are so much more effective aha's reputation as the john wick of finnish snipers
eventually drew the ire of the soviet commanders who finally grew tired of his nonsense and
began targeting him directly because getting anywhere near heiha was out of the question
they began hammering his general location with artillery strikes
when those didn't work the soviets sent teams of counter snipers to take him out but heiha
being the sniper sniper dispatched them with bone chilling ease finally one soviet sniper got lucky
and blasted heihei in the jaw with an exploding round despite being described by one friend as
having half of his head missing heiha refused to die and after days of reconstructive surgery
he finally regained consciousness the day after the winter war had ended
despite getting a portion of his face blown entirely off his dome in a time when medicine
was still largely experimental jeja survived world war ii and went back to hunting and farming
the finnish government actually gave him a farm in 1961 presumably both to reward him for his service
and they probably wanted to stay on his good side jehovah took up dog breeding
and continued hunting winning the rojo collati hunting society's game cup five years in a row
in 1970 he moved into a small apartment where he lived out the rest of his days before passing
away at age 96 in 2002. that's right the deadliest sniper in world war ii lived long enough to have
witnessed the rise of popularity of in sync simo heiha left his quiet farm life in the winter of
1939 to become the most effective sniper in history racking up over 500 confirmed kills
without even using a scope before returning home to live out the rest of the 20th century
in peace what do you think of the white death let us know that boy bad you're bad man i like him i
like him he didn't even die in the water that's really awesome and um the shots of the cheeks
man i'm telling you that shot the explosive round i guess whomever hit him with the shot
i don't know i i don't know how that round didn't kill him because explosive i don't know maybe back
then explosive rounds weren't as powerful as now today but explosive rounds man i'm telling you
but one of those like literally hits you with an explosive round your face
is off your body completely because um those explosive rounds are really deadly but like you
can see he has some deformative in uh his face structure obviously because it's an explosive
round that's what it's gonna do it's not like the normal round just pierce you and get out those
explode on impact right so really tough dude man he lived to see 96 that's so amazing and beautiful
happy for this dude man uh a great life story i'm telling you but either ways man we out of
here man any more finnish uh history whatever you guys have any suggestions leave those in the
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