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It's very validating to hear a man known as the Reaper of Death say that he is also scared of bugs

"I should have gotten an award for that. 'Best Dead Guy Ever'" 😂😂😂

Knowing that a veteran military sniper is scared of bugs is unreasonably comforting to me

Love this guy. No nonsense, no bravado just talks about the stuff he knows. Even saw him talk about how he cried when pinned down thinking that was it ! Not often you get someone admitting how bad it could be and how they still had a job to do and got on with it.

Besides being a world class marksman and warrior, Irving is also a very good communicator, teacher and storyteller. Very happy to see you back!

The “I’m scared of bugs so that ain’t for me” made me think of a Vietnam story my dad always told me. About how his unit was digging foxholes to bunker down for the night , and my dad started getting yelled at for being the last one and still digging his foxhole. He told his superior “look in the first one I dug” He dug into a big nest of burrowing scorpions and said nope

My uncle used to say: Call an airstrike or ask a favor from the artillery boys is the better things to do when facing another sniper. This is always true.

This guy is pretty cool. No machismo, no bragging, just low key knows his stuff. Respect

You know this guy is a sniper. He casually and calmly explained how he accidentally shot a tank and the tank started aiming the gun at him. Not one change in his voice as he says it.

I've read a lot of memoirs of troops in WWII...it wasn't uncommon for snipers even at that time to talk about what a bad idea it was to hide in trees. German snipers were very confused by how often they'd find Soviet snipers up trees because their training taught them that doing such was basically suicide. Marines in the Pacific thought the same of Japanese snipers for the same reason. The later scene, with the Soviet sniper, it was common training in both German and Soviet sniper schools to aim for the vision slits of armored vehicles, if not to kill the operator but to disable it. If the operators can't see through the spiderwebbed glass, they become much less effective.

I always like to believe this guy can just make a spotting scope materialize outta nowhere

My favorite story about the Reaper is the fact that after the Carlos Hathcock story was "debunked" by Mythbusters and every armchair sniper in the world, Reaper set it up in his backyard and proved it was plausible in a video that is still on YouTube like it was no big deal. Literally one of the only people in the world who could prove it true and he did.

“I only aimed at a tank one time and it was on accident I was quickly reminded don’t do that when they pointed the big cannon my way”😂😂😂

The fact that he wears glasses, but is still spot on with a scope once he takes them off is incredible. Chad behavior.

7:05 fun fact: The spotter is an sniper with way more experience than the one taking the shot.

As a filmmaker, I think the reason they so often don’t use the scope of an actual spotting scope is to make it very obvious for the audience whose POV you’re looking through, whether it’s the spotter or the sniper, so exaggerating the difference just to make it clear. Since, considering they do have spotting scopes on set, I think it’s generally an intentional choice

Scared of bugs but becomes a sniper 😅 he’s so relatable (Edit) I didn’t mean I relate to him, lol. Just that it was the one commonality —this guy with the insane resume—is our arachnophobia lol.

I love how nick touches on the subsonic rounds & suppressors

Remember finding Nick on YT years back. His story telling delivery along with crazy knowledge is among the best. Every year I’d check back to see if he had more stories on someone else’s channel or any new videos with him in it. Sometimes there was, sometimes I was watching an old thing. Haven’t seen anything in a couple years now but came across this. Happy for this man! He deserves his flowers, I’ll always look forward to future content with him in it

“I may have a shot” “Absolutely not” Well there goes the whole plot of that movie lol