FirstTime

My journey continues! The next day I enter the game in the same spot and a few minutes later see someone running at the edge of the airfield. I get excited, as it may be an opportunity to practice my poor sniper rifle shooting skill! A few seconds later I notice there is a second guy following him, and other, and another one! This is a group of 5 people. They are approaching carefully, running along the perimeter of the airfield behind the fence. I get nervous, because although I clearly have a better position, well, they are a team of 5, and they are all armed. They wear masks, cowboy hats and bright clothes. The first two of the bandits(?) approached the hangars and started looting them. When the first one comes out of the hangar I make a first shot. And it's a miss! (yes, see the first picture in this thread). They all immediately become aware of my position and take cover. Two hide in the hangars, and three, who had not yet come to the hangars, start sneaking in the forest behind the hangars, where they will have a better sight of my position. When one of the forest group sits still for a few seconds (presumably, he was checking something in his backpack), I shoot him. This time it is finally a hit, he drops dead right on the spot. My first one shot one kill! They start shooting at me (the first two join the rest). I just lie there still. After a couple of minutes they chill a bit, probably thinking they got me. One of them approaches his dead friend to take some loot from him. Bad idea! It is where I make my second kill. Anyway, I managed to kill three of them, and wound one. Those that survived flee the area. So far it goes well, and you can expect more noob sniper stories (and bodies) to come! :lol: TL;DR: newbie sniper scores his first 3 kills

I've been playing Dayz for a couple of weeks. I haven't had a lot of player interaction there (oh youtube videos, they lie! :) ). I have met a few Kill on Sight guys, and just freshly spawned newbies in spawn areas. I have also killed one or two people myself (after my first time being KOS'ed i realized it is better to avoid contact with armed players at all, or shoot first). The game for me was mostly running and looting. But a few days ago I found my first Long Range Scope! I was excited - something new for me in this game! I abandoned my fully packed M4A1 (with laser sights, bipod, flashlight, all pristine) for Mosin. I am a sniper now! I started wandering around cities, in a search for my first victim :lol: I chose cities not crowded like Electro, as I know for sure I will get killed pretty quick there. I was wandering for hours, rolling around in hills, and did not see anyone. And that is on a 40 people server! I decided to take a risk at a more crowded place. I crouched and proned my way to the air control tower in one of the airfields. After about a couple of hours zooming in each and every bush, I spot this dot, moving across airfield towards the hangars. It is a guy wearing just some black shirt, no backpack. He is crouched, rifle in his hands, and he is slowly crawling from one bush to another, staying there for a few seconds to check on surroundings. He can't see me - I am lying prone, observing him with third party view. When he crossed about three quarters of the distance to the hangars, I crouch and take my Mosin in hands. My heart is pounding crazy (oh, but I thought it's just a game?) I take a first shot when he stops for a secong to look around. And it's a hit! But he's not dead, thought I see he has a major bleeding in a stomach area. He starts to rush towards the hangars. I quickly unload all bullets that are left in the Mosin, but no luck - he is still running. I reload and shoot him again. Suddenly he drops on the ground, and starts to prone - and this is on a concrete air strip, with nothing to cover him! I realize that one of the shots must broke his legs. But this guy just does not give up. He has fountains of blood streaming all over his body, but he countines to slowly crawl towards the hangar, while being shot at. I shot around 15 bullets totally (I know, I am terrible yet) but he finally managed to crawl to the safe spot out of my sight. I went to look for him a few minutes later, but there was nor him, nor his body there.