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“Everyone mocked his ‘mail-order’ rifle — but in just four days, he took down 11 Japanese snipers.”

Why Second Lieutenant John George chose to bring his personal hunting rifle to Guadalcanal in 1943 — and how he ended up disproving every expert who claimed a civilian gun couldn’t win a sniper fight. This World War II episode shows how a simple mail-order rifle reshaped combat tactics across the Pacific.

January 22, 1943. West of Point Cruz, Lieutenant John George of the 132nd Infantry Regiment crouched among shattered ruins. In the past three days, Japanese snipers had claimed fourteen American lives. George steadied his aim through a Lyman Alaskan scope fixed to his Winchester Model 70 — a civilian bolt-action rifle he had purchased after saving two years of National Guard pay. Officers in his unit dismissed it as a gimmick. Captain Morris had even ordered him to leave the “mail-order toy” behind and carry a regulation weapon instead. Other platoon leaders insisted that a sporting rifle had no business on a battlefield.

They were wrong.

What George realized that morning had nothing to do with rate of fire and everything to do with accuracy. His Winchester shot slower than the Army’s standard M1 Garand, but at three hundred yards its precision was unmatched. Over the next four days in the groves of Point Cruz, he demonstrated exactly what a skilled marksman armed with the right tool could accomplish — and battalion commanders began to rethink their assumptions about sniper engagements.

The method George refined in those coconut groves wasn’t officially recognized at the time, yet it went on to save an estimated two thousand American lives before it ever appeared in a manual. The fundamentals he uncovered continue to shape modern U.S. sniper doctrine to this day.

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