This one will surprise most of you: Dr. Ruth was a trained sniper

**ALS** · March 6th, 2007, 08:45 PM

She was trained as a what?

**JustinM** · March 6th, 2007, 08:47 PM

!@#%%^ WTF! That's AWESOME!

**Turbinesaint** · March 6th, 2007, 08:52 PM

+1 That was my exact response!

**JIMMYC308** · March 6th, 2007, 09:07 PM

Wow sounds like she's an expert in all types of guns.

**MarcS** · March 6th, 2007, 09:11 PM

the best part is she wasn't a sniper for the IDF, she was a sniper for haganah, which was, essentially a liberation organization. The british at the time would have called her a terrorist.

**Intrigue** · March 6th, 2007, 09:14 PM

That's why I dont mess with little old ladies. I've heard of too many elderly women being dead accurate with a firearm, including my grandmother.

We went to AZ about 2 years ago, she was hitting those little "Lego" men from ~25 yards with a .357. Probably one of the most astonishing moments of my life, as the whole time I was picturing this as the woman who made us a big turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, and knitted us scarves to keep us warm in the winter. She's all of about 5'1'' and maybe 95lbs, but she didn't flinch in the slightest when that .357 was going off.

She said she learned to shoot when she worked at a gas station during WW2, they would plink old pop-bottles behind the station with her bosses .22.

I love old people..