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Correction: He kills enemies. He doesn’t do it for a living. He does it for a cause – whether the cause is right or wrong is another topic.

I admit “Favorite” is not a good word to attribute to real world snipers. Of course, I don’t like people being killed. But I cannot but feel awed at how the fictional snipers work – How the jackal shoots a moving target. I’ve even heard about a lady sniper shooting a cigarette butt from 400 meters.

Difference is he kills people for a living. You can respect him, but don’t call him your favourite because that implies you like people being killed.
I’ve spoken to an officer in the army who used to be a sniper. People like him won’t ask for any acknowledgement or medals. They’re the quiet professionals – go out and do your job, come home, have a cup of tea.

But in real life, it is still debated that the person sent to dispatch of Zaetsev was Konig or whether he existed at all!!

Anyway Zaetsev is not among my personal favorites. My favorite is Hathcock. And fictional favorite is the Jackal of “Day of the Jackal”

Vasili Zaietsev was not the best sniper in WW II by a longshot.
The story of Enemy at the gates is fiction and its veracity is debated.

Simo Häyhä was a Finnish soldier, and is widely considered to be the most successful sniper in history.
During the Winter War (1939–1940) between Finland and the Soviet Union, he began his duty as a sniper against the Red Army. Working in temperatures between -20 to -40 Celsius, and dressed completely in a white camouflage suit, Häyhä killed at least 505 Red Army soldiers by sniping them one by one.

He did this using iron sights, not telescopic sights because it presented a smaller target (less probability of detection).

All Häyhä’s kills were accomplished within three months, prior to his injuries caused by an exploding enemy bullet. Other snipers who have come even close to Häyhä’s record have accumulated their kills over a much longer time frame.

Zaitsev was a good sniper, but he was propogandized.

If you are interested in long range sniping, read up on Sgt. Carlos Hathcock of the US Marines. He had 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam. The Vietcong placed a $300,000 prize on his head.

He once held up a battalion of Vietcong single handedly and eliminated them one by one over the course of a night.

And till the US war in Afghanistan post 9/11, he held the record for the largest distance for a recorded kill. It was something like 2000+ metres.