Meet the Greatest Sniper Who Ever Lived 

Hello

Do they have gene based documentaries or something

Okay

Simo Häyhä, is Amazingk!

I first found out about him from the sabaton history channel. and i don't think well see a kill count like that again

You'd think Death would be at least a bit miffed that Simo stole his name.

Even death was afraid of Simo

Death spare those, who are unselfish enough to offer their lives for something bigger than themselves, and if she takes them, they become IMMORTALS.

Absolutely Hilarious!! 👍

Don't forget. He got shot in the head whit a EXPLOSIVE bullet

every burger is gangster until the trees start speaking vietnamese

that is an AMAZING saying.

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Every baguette is gangsta untill the salad turns sour 😎

Says the Dragoninthewest

Wow thanks for sharing

People always forget the submachine gun which probably saved him multiple times

wow, thats incredible. I always find it interesing how youtube always manages to bring folks from far and wide together. I'm curious to ask what was he like.

@@N3c777 same

What an honour

that’s incredible

Simo was a typical Carelian countryman and farmer. Very modest and quiet. A little man, I cannot remember him talking about the war, and I was too young to understand what a hero he was. I had some problems to understand his speaking at first, due to the searious injury in his mouth and jaw, but later I got it better. We also talked on phone, when he called me about his hunting and the troubling wolf situation in our area. And then, when I knew better, it was too late to ask him about his war experiences. Well, I think he didn'n want to talk much about war anyway. Such s nice man.

his height is debated

Man's got artic hunter eyes, an good ones. Right dude, right time, right place,,,, unless he saw you

Damn, 300 meters is like, a lot..

@@kato_dsrdr A buddy of mine was a marine in Iraq and said they would make head shots at 150-200 yards with iron sights. So I figure a great sniper might be able to double that. Either way very impressive!

I always shot and hunted without a scope using an old Lee-Enfield stock. And I actually averaged very good grouping at 300 meters.

Sound just a bit more than the 40-something to 1 that the Israelis fought to victory in just seven days

The fun part about this comment is that No, that is not an even fight Not even close His bodycounts in just one day could go up to 20, he is just that dangerous

"I like those odds"

he still outnumbered them 2 to 1 :D

hahaha underrated comment! x)

He had a lifelong friendship with a famous Finnish PM, and from seeing some limited videos the PM seemed more bothered by what he'd had to do in his life than what Simmo did 👀 Simmo had his orders, and he followed them to the letter, but whatever that PM had to do still seemed to bother him decades later, he was the guy who actually had to make choices I suppose, the guy who had to agonise over the consequences of his decisions When it's a country as small as Finland, if you do something that causes a rammy with a neighbouring country, you'll almost certainly know a friend who's close relative will be called up, quite different from a big country I suppose

Study Audy Murphy.

And some are just liars propped up by propaganda

the best leaders aren't always those with the greatest ambition

@@Conserpov (cough...cough) Macarthur.

Thank you for your service sir...hope those hard times are long gone.... salute

@@juansantiago2710 They are not, but I persevere.

I read that Rangers have "unparalleled access to a wide range of schools," (medic, EOD, combat diver etc). Does that mean you guys have a wider range of skill sets than other SOF?

Rangers have a primary and secondary specialty. But the standing operating system is that all Rangers cross train with each other. @@Durzo1259

Why was he hunting for the elderly? That’s a horrible way to treat old people! I’m just kidding! I knew what you meant, but I had to read it twice, just to make sure. 😂

Exactly! There is a common myth that Simo didn't want to use scoped M/27 rifle cause it raised the shooters silhouette. The more realistic reason is that Simo wanted to use his M/28 rifle issued by Suojelukunta which he mainly used to compete and hunt. The reasoning was Simo would rather use the one rifle he had used all his life rather than change the weapon platform for new untested tech where scope fogging up was a real hazard during that time.

hunting people is no different from hunting animals

wow, i have heard about simo in some short fact videos, thoughty2 shocked me it was that much and you even completed that shock, thanks! gonna go for a lecture about him :D

@@epiclolito8226 I think it is Humans kinda lost their natural withs. I think it may actually be easier than animals. Most prey animals are always on the look out for hunters and very fast runners compared to humans that mostly make lots of noise and panic when shot on. Also they had like totally standing out clothing. I bet they were so cold, they were shivering all the time.

**BANG**

@@RuyVuusen ... say da da da da!!!

*Curb your enthusiasm theme starts playing*

This cannot possibly be as funny as it made me laugh.😔 ...i snorted.

Shot on iphone theme plays

Only God could have matched Simo. Matched. Matched, only.

@@gabriellashimone6546- we get your point. But don’t you think such passionate folly is a bit overboard? Really…

tactics. Strategy is something else.

​@@S0ulinth3machin3OK genius

Stalin in his paranoia had killed most the red army generals and high officers, and they had only faulty intel about Finland's political climate (the soviets thought Finns were divided to nationalists and socialists from the 1918 civil war, and the leftists would join the red army in fight against the nationalists, but instead pretty much all Finns fought as one against the soviets - that probably got more to with soviets being anti-religion than communist, in extremely Christian Finland, it was partly sold as "holy war" against the devil) resulting in bad tactics, poor equipment and defunct supply lines.

Germany faced the same problems when they invaded Russia. “Mistakes were made.” - World War Two, 1939 - 1945

fr

Full send

@@razielfall +!1

Both of them?

to the marketplace

@@SeanWinters yupp. We both here.

@@SamuelSundman all three of us actually

.......yup...

That's how you know your tool at best 😃.

scope probably just obstructing his sight & reflecting too much 😂

@@everybot-it Whilst his reign was quite short in comparison to WW2 his worth did get noted quick enough that he was offered all kinds of equipment from different rifles to a variety of scopes and sights. It was partly down to what he was familiar with but also as you suggest it had the potential to make him more noticeable. A lot of the time he literally laid flat in minimal cover, as low to the ground as possible.

Spoken like a true delusional american.

Yaegerist alert

Freedom is only freedom if we all fight to protect it. Freedom should never be assumed.

So long as evil exists, there will be conflict. Men either rise to face conflict or they become victims to it.

Thats awesome

The best sniper of the war between the states was not even a soldier. His young sons were beheaded by union soldiers for hunting squirrels. He went and had a custom rifle made and 57 year old Jack Hinson killed over 100 union soldiers. The thing was-he was pro-Union and a friend of US Grant before his sons were killed.

Do the Fins know this?

@@seandoyle2983 why would it matter?

@@seandoyle2983 No, we didn't know that, but it is awesome to hear! Simo is quite a national hero.

*Slow clapping*

💀

Thats a bit grim he didnt fight just to kill he fought for the pepols freedom for my free land for the fatheland

@@TheReiska83 snow clapping 😂

@@jereheiskanen1364 yes. i know. he was interviewed at one point in his life and the interviewer asked him that question and simo gave that response.

an amazing man!

96? That guy really was not a human then.

Not to downplay his incredibly long life and fascinating story, but living to your 90's is becoming a bit more common even in 2002 for people that have the ability to take really good care of themselves -- and get a bit lucky. ​@@anonym3967

@@eNodeTG but tbh most of them aren't missing half their face he was hard as nails

@@anonym3967 he is a cyborg like me lol

I'd get on my knees and close my eyes

Fall on my back or stomach and lay flat and probably still.

Take my last breath and say a prayer for my family and run as fast as I could

@@jwood8769 burst out crying 😭..!

And the bright white untouched snow is the perfect medium for the carnage of splatter to really make more of an impact on your psyche. Sounds truly terrifying.

To the marketplace!

Hahahahaaaa hurr durr liek da gaems yes?! Heheemhurrdidurrhurr

he never got back to the main menu to do so. he just kept going.

He didn't even equip his diamond camo :(

@@intruder6628 he would only have gold because he only used one gun

Can't get enough of his story and watch pretty much anyone's video on him, when I practice shoot he's someone I think about when I chase accuracy at distance and what is humanly possible. ✌🇺🇸

He's a legend and so is Finland.

He killed more commies than any other man in history. He's not just a finnish hero, he's a hero to any man that loves freedom.

As I read this message, from the comfort of my Finnish lodge cabin, I saw a bald eagle gently land on the porch. I heard a distant music, which I recognized to be the US national anthem. We're not that different, I thought, as a tear dropped from my cheek. America first, Finland second

we americans love and respect this agent of death as much as a foreigner can!

Stalin was known that one day Hitler will attack, but not so early. This fear was reason for Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and why they shared countries between them. It was safety border.

His family is Poland.

Not one rapper or ufc fighter alive is half or even quarter as badass as that humble little man in a grandpa jumper :D

That is true, but I think he simply couldn’t live with a family, even if he wanted to, because of PTSD. Killing people changes a man.

Ikr he was simply amazing 💜🇫🇮

@@b1ngnx33 Finland 🇫🇮😡!

It's not bad ass to make a statement like that

@@diogeneslantern18 I thought it was a joke, kinda funny.

sadly stolen

@@user-tn9xq2io9w Your comment is stolen as well

@@user-tn9xq2io9w 1 no it’s not someone else stole it from this if the edit didn’t do anything besides spelling 2 It could just be a coincidence 3 Does it really matter in the end

The man who deserves respect above everyone else

Please tell me the name of the movie !

I hope it's titled "The White Death"

Same here :D Almost every educational RU-vidr made a vid about him :D I was surprised it took 42 this long :D but still a great story

Really that's great I hope so... But then at the same time I kinda hate when they make movies about people because they dramatise it and invent love stories and crap like that when I personally just want the facts, more of a documentary in film form I'd prefer

Did you watch the video? He was a soldier.

@@spcpitts used to be a farmer

My Aunt, Who Had "Fought" in Desert Storm became, a Deeply Depressed Person... She Had Join to Be a Warrior! An NDN Brave! ALTHOUGH, Was So Skilled in Rifle Usage... Was (sadly) a SNIPER: No Hand-to-Hand, No Field Work, No Seeing The Enemy or NO HONOUR, She Laid Safely a Mile away, CAPPING Everyone in Her Sights...? Awarded by U. S. Military, Yet Cowardly by NDN Ways?!?

@@ndnpride3972 She can find HONOUR in the number of lives she saved. but I understand

@@ndnpride3972 I'm sure you probly believe it. But I'm highly doubtful that your Aunt served as a "sniper" in Desert Storm. 1st of all in 1990 - 91, the field of sniping wasn't open to women. That field wasn't even open until about 5 years ago. And even then, they only train women for base defense as snipers not as field snipers. 2nd of all, the only rifle that the military has that can reach out one mile, the Barrett M107 50 Cal sniper rifle, wasn't even fielded until the early 2000s for the War on Terror. I'd like you to ask your aunt to show you her DD214 form Those are her honorable discharge papers from the military which will list her MOS specialty. If she were a sniper she would have had to have gone to infantry training 1st, and if she was assigned to an infantry unit her MOS would be 11B. If she'll let you see them, feel free to get back to me. But until then I'm calling bullshit on her story. Especially since combat arms fields weren't even open to womenn until 2011.😎

"Semo" wtf

Your missing one thing, attention to detail, he did every little thing right for him to be effective in his environment.

And being unreachable! Meaning you can not get any info at all

@@stigafan Bro that's not even bad, I've seen ppl call him "Salmo" here bruh

Im about to be the 1,000th person the like this comemment.

Sargent York much the same.

That basically defines the life of the best sniper ☺️No identification or info to find lol

That’s call hero, when country need you, you will services, when country is peaceful, he came back where he lives

I'd imagine he'd be targeted if he announced his identity.

Well, he was Finnish, isn't that sorta the national brand? Modesty?

Yeah if you want to hit targets 1,000 meters out

@@anothernpc4943 And if you want to be spotted by the shine of your scope, he didnt use a scope and could still shoot insanely far

@@anothernpc4943 in the future with genetically enhanced soldiers, we could see more iron sights on guns

Simon used Iron sights. His rifle was a standard issue Russian made Mosin-Nagant M91 7.62x54mm. He also used a 9x19 machine gun.

@@CrossyTf2 modern day scopes have a honey comb cover that helps with the glare.

indeed a good warrior

A better death than most people in war probably

Honorable

Wow! Respect

Is that fact confirmed?

That's a rumor from Internet memes. Simo was incredibly reserved and hardly did interviews. He never has been documented saying that.

Actually it's not a rumor, he said exactly that.

@@erikafinland2162 Then cite your sources, wikipedia and reddit don't count lol.

I'm fond of your pukkos too.

That's brilliant 😂

My Friend Johnathan Denny here says and I quote, "Cap"

Good one lol

🧢🧢🧢

Funny guy

Very aawsuum !

He was sticking around to make sure the commies didn't rise again and finally had some peace when he realized they were gone for good.

@Magas Thats not possible, Soviets fell in 1991, Berlin wall fell in 1990.

He was born in 1905, so he pre-dated USSR by about 17 years. So his life encompassed the birth and death of the Soviet Union. Heh.

@@ericdew2021 We knew he would come, as he always had, as he always would, to feast on the blood of the wicked!

I think it's intended.

In Bangladesh, during the liberation war of 1971, the best Fighters came from the farmers, workers and students.

It makes sense since farmers would go huntig for food

@@hammerdot7786 and all that sacrifice led to the state this country is in today

The US fighters back during the revolution against Britain as well, though such roots appear to have been lost…

Ireland to arms. We can take them all

a deserved hero above all else.

Facts! =)

Or "Still water runs deep."

😎

So true, that has been my experience through life. Usually someone you can trust too.

Farts

Short king

As a Finn, I agree

Need this man in the u.s

@@kx250braap i know right its bad here rn

@@kx250braap if you had him they would just kill everyone cuz they would want to get all the oil.

Finnish guys finish last

Same

@@osamabinladen824 😏

@@abubalo 🙄

Are you finished now?

He is John Wicks grandaddy, Lol

OG

Do you mean the soviet union

Apt description.

@@louwilson0906 indeed

500 to 1... When they surrounded him with 5 concentric circles he didn't really have to aim, to hit two Russians with one round but we all know with Simo, just opening his eyes is aiming.

Simo had to make sure he had 250 rounds before liking those odds.

@@donoberloh IT accualy happend

simo: and i still outnumber you russians 2 to 1^^

😅🤣

My great grandad was killed there too, shot in the face.

The whole country seems to be filled with very committed people.

He went back to farming when war is over.. Now I know why Thanos did the same..

Reaper's gonna reap. Lives or wheat.

Cincinnatus, Roman born in 530 BC did the same. He was a brilliant war hero who could have easily been Rome's leader, but chose to return to farming.

Yep. A good soldier puts aside such things when they are protecting their country and people or that of an allied country and THEIR people. When at war you have to put aside such morals. That said, murdering enemies mercilessly is not good. But this sniper simply did what he felt was necessary. "The recoil" indeed. He wasn't just a good sniper but a good soldier and good person in general.

fucking savage

It is a typical Finnish reply :)

That...cements legend status

Simo did not say that.

Thanks for letting us borrow Christopher Lee during that war.

Wanna have some custard creams? (I'm a brit some I'm allowed)

... ice dams I mean

Simo was such a cool man

I don't know what's worse facing a man nicknamed "the White Death", or being mowed down by machinegun fire for deserting.

@@Welderman-xo1sx Exactly. crappy choice or what?!. Not sure in the Winter War, but later on the Eastern Front The NKVD had men at the rear killing anyone giving up ground etc

@@paulwhitelaw7131 True. And well into the 50s too. They had their quotas to fill. I'm paraphrasing Stalin here. He ordered his district secret police to kill 5000 people because he'd heard they where complaining about not having enough food. When asked who they should eliminate. He replied, "Does it matter? Just kill 5000".

@@Teknophobe yeah, he killed much much more his own ppl than finns

@@Welderman-xo1sx with simo’s accuracy I would take my chances against the machine gun

Kinda reminds me the Lancia driver that didn't want to be champion and ended up winning the Rally. Check Lancia Vs Audi by Jeremy Orangutan Clarkson.

when was that mention? I don't pay much attention

"Excuse me. Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." (It's said the Red Army pulled out of Finland that particular day BECAUSE Simo Hayha woke up -- and the Soviets had had their fill of The White Death.)

Really???

@@seanbigay1042 😄 Source?

@@CaptiveReefSystems “its said” is just “People think this happened but prolly not”

he must have been like "stupid soviets going on my crops, eating my food, killing animals from my forest for them selves - I'll show them!"

It's funny to put it that way but that's not how the Finns are. He did what he was ordered to do, what he needed to do and what others needed him to do. That is the Finnish way.

That one would be Lauri Törni. Another Winter War legend that's quite different, I like to think that he was just so pissed at Soviet Union and communists in general for taking his home (he was from Vyborg), that he went on to fight for Germany when Continuation War ended, an later proceeded to join the US Army and finally (probably) died in Vietnam in a helicopter accident.

I believe that it was either himself or someone close to him said that it was "like hunting" to him, as being from the Finnish countryside, he hunted lots in his youth, and training in the Finnish civil guard, so he was good with a rifle and wanted to defend his homeland.

This man did what he did... and what he actually did was making everything up.

And it doesn't even remotely work.

Not just the one apparently it was more like 3 or 4 plus artilery and mortars at many point and of course the snipers etc.

@Ruy Vuusen I can just hear and see the confusion of the reds after bombing a large are of a forest and literally the second the bombing stops, another body hits the ground as a huge middle finger to the reds

And still fail to kill you.

no piss tho

@@imbored7579 oh fak mate

That's a somewhat inaccurate quote from General Mattis. Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

he even managed to get all those kills without pointing the gun straight up and spinning around with the ability to turn in the perfect direction in 1 millisecond. shows that skill always beats luck.

@@jeremytheimer7443 what are you referring to?

I saw you miss

Same, but I did number two standing up in the dark

On mission snipers pee whenever, and never miss. Guess where

@@adamkidman you have dingle berry’s

we all make that shot with only one eye open LOL

I'm a finn

I'm an American & cant help but feel admiration & respect for the history of Simo. You Swedes don't mess around when it comes to sending your best sniper in history. 👏👏👏

@@nomadnick726 Simo was a Finn, not a Swede.

@@nomadnick726 he was finnish, since finland was apart of sweden for so long its like calling chris kyle british

You swedes should have helped. You did not.

Dude, he didn't use scope because he is afraid that reflection glare from the scope glass could give out his position

he also spat on the snow around to freeze it so again snow wouldn't puff up when he fired

The man ate snow to prevent his breath fogging in the cold

@@pranavrao3263 that’s so gnarly. Especially when considering just how much this drops your core temperature and is universally accepted as a last resort for water in those situations due to hypothermia.

@@CYMotorsport well he wouldnt actually cool his entire body down just pop some into his mouth and take the shot

*brain is blown out*

"You're in the sniper's sight The first kill tonight Time to die You're in the bullet's way The White Death's prey Say goodbye"

Why this makes me laugh all the time wtf

too much vodka 😜😂

Underrated comment. Too brilliant

No he didnt

Hathcock

He might have said that, they are a people of truly laconic persuasion.

Lol

lol

Tbf simo sounds suspiciously like zemo??

@@ethanshadowwareham in Finland it doesn't. Im Finnish

U rang?

Damn right

Universal soldier

Old PUBG player seeing Win98 =

Haha, I noticed that too. 9:55

Yea simo was an expert with that shotgun

@@braydoncm2198 It's a shotgun? I thought he used Mosin nagant m28

@@justdio7459 in a clip used in the video, the dude in the forest is carrying a shotgun while thoughty2 is saying "with his trusted rifle". 9:55

The reason behind the ironsight was the fact that a scope could be seen from far away because it reflects light.

That, and in nature there are no perfect circles, and a random dark circle in the ground will give you away

No, he used his own rifle which he knew so well. He had it for 20 years and mastered it. So why change it?

My dad is 87 years old, he's never been a soldier or a sniper but he is a hunter, he inherited a rifle very similar to the one this simo guy used, it's even from the same time frame of WW2, which means this rifles attached mag takes about 5 rounds and has to be manually reloaded without detaching from the rifle like a modern one, my dad always said he prefered the iron sight and would not use a scope, I guess it's just what he was used to.

If he used a scope, his head wouldve had to be a couple centimeters higher which would mean that he could be seen easier, also the light can reflext from the scope

Well said.

I don't know if Simo lived by any motto during that time, but if I'd been in his shoes I might have gone with "Never bring a scope to a sniper fight".

something tells me this man wouldnt even bring this up. Its an amazing feat but I feel like he would keep it to himself unless asked

Boycott everything from China and Olympic games.

@@alexnunezramos1720 China is a communist racist authoritarian adversary of the United States. BLM is a communist organization embracing authiritarian tactics and racist rhetoric to divide America to help China become the dominant power in the world. Seems like the Olympics doesn't want BLM burning down the city and murdering anyone they feel like in the name of black criminals that died while resisting arrest for felonious behavior.