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Blacksmith
02-18-2014, 06:58 PM
This link leads to a Daily Mail story with the same title.
In these photos of hidden snipers can you spot them?
Second question is can you spot them in less time than it would take them to acquire you as a target, dope the wind and send a round at you?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561773/Spot-snipers-artists-amazing-collection-photos-hidden-gunmen-blending-various-landscapes.html

DCP
02-18-2014, 07:03 PM
I got 2

I am dead

Taylor
02-18-2014, 07:18 PM
I did good!

dagger dog
02-18-2014, 07:52 PM
Got the first 2 , I'm dead too.

rockrat
02-18-2014, 08:28 PM
Got 6 or 7, I'm still history

Bored1
02-18-2014, 08:40 PM
Got the first 3 pretty quick, just looked out of place. I am still dead tho, Sniper in the tree could still be shooting my corpse.

altheating
02-18-2014, 08:41 PM
Found the first two. Dead on the next two.

CastingFool
02-18-2014, 09:16 PM
I only picked out two of them.

Artful
02-18-2014, 09:25 PM
I'm dead :???:

Teddy (punchie)
02-18-2014, 09:41 PM
Found about 45% Guess I would be lucky if it was a good day and dead the days luck was not on My side. They did A fine job.

RichardSATX
02-18-2014, 09:46 PM
First 2, after that I'm toast.

contender1
02-18-2014, 10:11 PM
All I got to check was the 3 photos. I found those 3 immediately. To a woods bum like me, things just looked a little out of place. I wasn't able to view the video, so I do not know how I'd do there.

Milsurp Junkie
02-18-2014, 10:27 PM
I got almost all of them. The guy in the tree, and the one in the fog screwed me up. Anything that had sunlight was pretty easy to spot something out of place. I would still be dead.

Stephen Cohen
02-18-2014, 10:28 PM
First two easy, dead on next few, til the rifle barrel sticking out gave it away. In all reality you only have to miss one and your on your way to god.

Bad Water Bill
02-18-2014, 10:51 PM
Girty got em all. No body expected a trained assassin MULE.:bigsmyl2:

Good one sir.

Oreo
02-18-2014, 11:21 PM
I think its a BS test. Photography and real life are a world apart for this kind of stuff. In these pictures there's woefully inadequate resolution, zero depth perception, and minimal sense of scale. It drastically favors the snipers.

John Allen
02-18-2014, 11:35 PM
The one on the rocks was impressive.

jcameron996
02-18-2014, 11:52 PM
I got most of them, but it still wouldn't matter.

Blacksmith
02-19-2014, 12:49 AM
Remember try to look unimportant!

propwashp47
02-19-2014, 01:20 AM
BAD WATER BILL GURTY all ways gets em all, hehaw

GaryN
02-19-2014, 02:52 AM
That was fun. I've always wanted a gilly suit. They work better if you make your own out of the local plants.

Bad Water Bill
02-19-2014, 04:47 AM
BAD WATER BILL GURTY all ways gets em all, hehaw

U kep miz speln er nam n u b metin er persnal.

aX AMANDA dat ain a purdi site an BULLSHOP JR b sseen er nam everi da he shavs.

GIRTY it b n don u ferget.:evil:

montana_charlie
02-19-2014, 01:27 PM
I only found about half of them, but none of them could see me.
I was wearing my 'cloak of invisibility'.

Artful
02-19-2014, 01:40 PM
I think its a BS test. Photography and real life are a world apart for this kind of stuff. In these pictures there's woefully inadequate resolution, zero depth perception, and minimal sense of scale. It drastically favors the snipers.

In other words - Your Dead Too:bigsmyl2:

Oreo
02-19-2014, 02:33 PM
Not unless those snipers can fire digital bullets that will come through the interwebs, and out of my S4 lcd to perforate me.

Got-R-Did
02-19-2014, 02:39 PM
Even with Harry Potter's Cloak, I still only qualify to be a R.E.M.F. in this exercise.
Got-R-Did.

RoyEllis
02-19-2014, 02:40 PM
I think its a BS test. Photography and real life are a world apart for this kind of stuff. In these pictures there's woefully inadequate resolution, zero depth perception, and minimal sense of scale. It drastically favors the snipers.

Factors perhaps but not total loss there.....I spotted all but 2 in under 10 sec each (tree guy & one out in rock field) so I'd have to say they weren't all hidden as well as they should've been (or would've been on real field op). Esp. considering I'm not that great a punkins, just got a lil learning yrs ago. Most of them can be seen by looking for scope lens or barrel.

trapper9260
02-19-2014, 03:02 PM
I got 3 but I am dead also.Well that is the way it gose sometime.It is amazing for how some can blend in .

garym1a2
02-19-2014, 03:30 PM
I got quite a few of them , but if you look into their hiding spots. Many of them are poor spots, on the front side of hills with no escape paths once they take their shot. Why be on the front slope of a hill in clear grass when you could be in the tree line in heavy brush. Once he took the shoot in most cases the sniper would be dead.

DeanWinchester
02-19-2014, 03:48 PM
I'm red/green color blind. I can NEVER get these. I can only pray that any given sniper with eyes on me has the decency to take shot placement seriously.
…and upon reflection, I can't say it'd be a bad way to go. Given what I have to look forward to; Cancer, alzheimer's and any number of long lingering hells on earth, a well trained sniper putting me down don't sound bad at all.

Oreo
02-19-2014, 04:01 PM
I got quite a few of them , but if you look into their hiding spots. Many of them are poor spots, on the front side of hills with no escape paths once they take their shot. Why be on the front slope of a hill in clear grass when you could be in the tree line in heavy brush. Once he took the shoot in most cases the sniper would be dead.

That's what I was getting at. It's much easier to be difficult to see from only one angle in one spot. In the real world you gotta blend in while getting there and escaping after announcing your presence with a report. Anyone can kill a target before being seen if placed in a convenient spot. To be a sniper you gotta get there and back without being killed by the rest of the opposing army.

Harter66
02-19-2014, 05:03 PM
I got 12/15 . The tree guy ,rock creek and the 1 behind the escarpment. Oddly it was more boots ro a branch out of place or hood shadows. I have blue color defect also due to a macula injury related to high bp I loose depth up close ,but I'm pretty movement sensitive to make up for it. Its funny I miss mulies till something twitches but and ear flick at 200yd has me looking for for the rest of the herd. I can't even count the tule ducks I've flushed.

wch
02-19-2014, 05:49 PM
Don't look for the man with the rifle, look for his spotter, it's a lot harder to hide that big glass - the shooter will be very near.

shooter93
02-19-2014, 07:35 PM
I sneaked up behind everyone of them and "dispatched" them....smiles.

JeffinNZ
02-20-2014, 04:06 AM
Got 6 or 7, I'm still history

About the same for me.

Grumpy Joe
02-20-2014, 12:09 PM
I lived each time as I brought cool water for the snipers sitting in the heat. Shared some good tales of my past and now I have better protection than most Presidents of past have.

MUSTANG
02-20-2014, 02:14 PM
Found all but the one in the tree. Anticipate each of them shot me before I saw them, because many of the US, Brits, and Canadians snipers can usually hit out to a 1000 meters; and my vision isn't that good.

lavenatti
02-20-2014, 04:06 PM
I couldn't see half of them when they had the red circles around them.

jonp
02-21-2014, 01:33 AM
I got quite a few of them , but if you look into their hiding spots. Many of them are poor spots, on the front side of hills with no escape paths once they take their shot. Why be on the front slope of a hill in clear grass when you could be in the tree line in heavy brush. Once he took the shoot in most cases the sniper would be dead.

I kinda question the sniper in the tree. Escape? I got 4, some of the others were too small and far away to make out even with the circle. I did get the guy standing there though

RED333
02-21-2014, 09:40 PM
Well I will be honest, I missed them all, as I was not "looking" for them.(I did not see the hints till the 3rd or 4th pic)
I am thinking no one really "looks" for a sniper till it is to late.

williamwaco
02-21-2014, 09:58 PM
I got the first two almost immediately.

After that I am a dead duck.