It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Since 2015, Hyde has been frequently misreported as the perpetrator of numerous mass shootings and terrorist attacks by internet trolls on websites such as 4chan and Twitter.[9][13] The hoaxes, which typically included photos of Hyde brandishing a semi-automatic weapon, reappeared so often on social media that The New York Times characterized "Sam Hyde is the shooter" as "an identifiable meme."[14] The first instance of the prank was the Umpqua Community College shooting. CNN mistakenly included Hyde's image on their coverage of the shooting.[15] Hyde has also been erroneously blamed for many other shootings,[a] including when Representative Vicente Gonzalez mistakenly identified Hyde as the perpetrator of the Sutherland Springs church shooting.[21] Hyde's image was shared across social media as being the driver of the car in Waukesha, Wisconsin, that drove into a holiday parade in November 2021.[22] In February of 2022, an edited image of Hyde was misidentified as the "Ghost of Kyiv" (along with the names 'Сэм Хайденко' [Sam Haydenko] or Samuyil Hyde), a Ukrainian fighter pilot who supposedly shot down six Russian planes on the February 24, 2022.[23] The 2022 Buffalo shooter also claimed the image of Hyde as his own in his manifesto.
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
I think this is important for a second comment and not just an edit.
Do we have any veterans here today? Perhaps some spec operators? Notice how the shooter, who is 18 years old, was carrying and shooting his gun *IN THE BUFFALO SHOOTING VIDEO* (not the pictures)?
C-Clamp grip, something only taught and/or used in special operations combat or competition shooting.
The C-Clamp grip offers you more leverage on the barrel, thus reducing recoil and having the ability to change targets efficiently and effectively.
originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
I've been shooting for 50 years and unless I'm shooting from a bench I've always used that style of grip.
I am neither military or competition shooter.
The theory behind using this style of shooting, or the “C” clamp grip, is that it will allow the operator to transition targets faster, reduce muzzle rise, and allows the operator to shoot faster while maintaining a sight picture on target.
originally posted by: 38181
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
I think this is important for a second comment and not just an edit.
Do we have any veterans here today? Perhaps some spec operators? Notice how the shooter, who is 18 years old, was carrying and shooting his gun *IN THE BUFFALO SHOOTING VIDEO* (not the pictures)?
C-Clamp grip, something only taught and/or used in special operations combat or competition shooting.
The C-Clamp grip offers you more leverage on the barrel, thus reducing recoil and having the ability to change targets efficiently and effectively.
Looking at that hideous trigger discipline, that’s highly doubtful.
originally posted by: 38181
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
I think this is important for a second comment and not just an edit.
Do we have any veterans here today? Perhaps some spec operators? Notice how the shooter, who is 18 years old, was carrying and shooting his gun *IN THE BUFFALO SHOOTING VIDEO* (not the pictures)?
C-Clamp grip, something only taught and/or used in special operations combat or competition shooting.
The C-Clamp grip offers you more leverage on the barrel, thus reducing recoil and having the ability to change targets efficiently and effectively.
Looking at that hideous trigger discipline, that’s highly doubtful.
originally posted by: Tekner
You do realize the pictures in the OP are not of the actual shooter? LOL I'm amazed people still fall for this
originally posted by: Tekner
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
Damn how did the Ghost of Kiev make it all the way to Buffalo to shoot up the grocery store, I thought he was still fighting Russians!
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
originally posted by: Tekner
You do realize the pictures in the OP are not of the actual shooter? LOL I'm amazed people still fall for this
I'm amazed you realized the point to my thread....dotdotdot
It was established in the opening post that I made for the article (the top post...you know, the OP...) was that the person in the photo wasn't the shooter, and that it was Sam Hyde......
Imagine if reading was something we only did in the early 2000's and somehow forgot how to do :/
originally posted by: Tekner
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
originally posted by: Tekner
You do realize the pictures in the OP are not of the actual shooter? LOL I'm amazed people still fall for this
I'm amazed you realized the point to my thread....dotdotdot
It was established in the opening post that I made for the article (the top post...you know, the OP...) was that the person in the photo wasn't the shooter, and that it was Sam Hyde......
Imagine if reading was something we only did in the early 2000's and somehow forgot how to do :/
I wasn't replying to you. If you would read I was replying to the guy talking about the trigger discipline in the photos of Sam.
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
originally posted by: Tekner
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
originally posted by: Tekner
You do realize the pictures in the OP are not of the actual shooter? LOL I'm amazed people still fall for this
I'm amazed you realized the point to my thread....dotdotdot
It was established in the opening post that I made for the article (the top post...you know, the OP...) was that the person in the photo wasn't the shooter, and that it was Sam Hyde......
Imagine if reading was something we only did in the early 2000's and somehow forgot how to do :/
I wasn't replying to you. If you would read I was replying to the guy talking about the trigger discipline in the photos of Sam.
Noted.
I thought 381 was referring to the video in regards to his trigger discipline and thus subsequently (dotdotdot)
Sorry mate, you gotta understand in this day in age...Mistaken you for someone else
Everything I said, but to 381 instead lmao guy lost the plot
originally posted by: MufflerTuesday
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
I'm not claiming to be some Jon Wick headshot master, but I've never had a hard time shooting fast/accurately at close range with rifles and shotguns. Pistols on the other hand, I suck with them. I don't think it takes a ton of skill to kill people at close range with a rifle.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
Wow. Great detective work. No wonder the manifesto was scrubbed from the internet so quickly.