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snipers by the PAVN typically ranged from $8 to $2,000. The PAVN placed a bounty of US$30,000 on Hathcock's life for killing so many of their men. Confrontations with North Vietnamese snipers Hathcock himself estimated that he had killed between 300 and 400 enemy personnel during the Vietnam War. Snipers often did not have a third party present, making confirmation difficult, especially if the target was behind enemy lines, as was usually the case. In the Vietnam War, kills had to be confirmed by a third party, who had to be an officer, beside the sniper's spotter. Confirmed kills ĭuring the Vietnam War, Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of PAVN and Viet Cong personnel. Land later recruited Marines who had set their own records in sharpshooting he quickly found Hathcock, who had won the Wimbledon Cup, the most prestigious prize for long-range shooting, at Camp Perry in 1965. In 1966, Hathcock started his deployment in the Vietnam War as a military policeman and later became a sniper after Captain Edward James Land pushed the Marines into raising snipers in every platoon. Jo gave birth to a son, whom they named Carlos Norman Hathcock III.īefore deploying to South Vietnam, Hathcock had won shooting championships, including matches at Camp Perry and the Wimbledon Cup. Hathcock married Jo (nee Broughton) Winstead on the date of the Marine Corps birthday, November 10, 1962. Hathcock dreamed of being a Marine throughout his childhood, and so on May 20, 1959, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the U.S. He would go into the woods with his dog and pretend to be a soldier and hunt imaginary Japanese soldiers with the old Mauser his father brought back from World War II. While visiting relatives in Mississippi, he took to shooting and hunting at an early age, partly out of necessity to help feed his poor family. He grew up in Wynne, Arkansas, living with his grandmother after his parents separated for the first 12 years of his life. Hathcock was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 20, 1942. 2.2 Confrontations with North Vietnamese snipers.