As a matter of fact,
one time during a daylight patrol in Viet Nam in 1966, somewhere northeast of Saigon if I recall correctly, my rifle platoon was fired upon by a single not too bright Viet Cong using some sort of a black powder firearm at a distance of about 150 yards - we heard the bullet pass through some tree branches overhead and then saw the distinctive white smoke off to our left across some paddies in a tree line. As an experienced rifle musket shooter and a participant in the Civil War Centennial I was able to explain to my troops that the “sniper” probably only had one shot and would take a while to reload - this after they were done expending about a magazine, full auto, each in the direction and general vicinity of the telltale smoke.
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Bob Roberts
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