Simo Hayha

Digg.com is so great, and brings some very fascinating things to the surface. Just now, a link to the wikipedia entry on Simo Hayha caught my eye. Hayha was a Finnish sniper during the Winter War, and had 505 confirmed Russian kills over a 100 day period. That's 5 kills per day, averaging basically 1 kill per daylight hour of each day. The article is short, but full of fascinating details about his preferences for guns and scopes, and about his close calls.