I must interject here, my very dear FRiend, Major Jim Land, The Father of USMC Sniping and Carlos Hathcock; the founding fathers of modern sniping.
Posted on 06/21/2017 11:01:30 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Cool.
The pos never saw/heard it coming.
Very impressive. Hopefully, he keeps his name and face unknown, unless this is someone who wants the attention, fame and infamy.
Wow. Talk about hitting the enemy when he least expects it....
Hail to the Princess Pats !!!!
That’s over two miles
I know. Article says they have all the evidence to back it up. That’s quite a jump from the existing record.
I wonder if there’s a military version of this:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-rifle-brings-auto-aim-to-the-real-world/
2.14 miles away. 1000 meters longer than the existing record.
Wondering if it’s a technological advancement that made that happen.
It says he was shot from a high rise building. That would have changed the angle of the bullet path and reduced the amount elevation that he would have had to dial into the scope. I’m sure he lazed the target and then lazed the ground beneath him and then used that to determine his angle and then dialed in the appropriate elevation. I’m guessing he either didn’t have a significant crosswind.
I must interject here, my very dear FRiend, Major Jim Land, The Father of USMC Sniping and Carlos Hathcock; the founding fathers of modern sniping.
Under the misrule of Baby Doc, Canada has pulled less than its weight against ISIS.
One of the first things Truedope did upon taking office was to pull out Canadian bombers.
So it’s good to see that the JTF operators were able to help out.
TAC-50 apparently has a max range of 3750m so even longer shots are possible !
Not to brag, but, as a father of an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, in on March 20, 2003, here’s what I learned of his second job. First job was in a bridging unit - construction, boat-driver, and truck transportation of equipment (750 miles on their first combat run).
As his sergeant said, “The boy likes to shoot” so when my son was qualifying on the M249 SAW (light machine gun), he gave him 6 box clips (250 rounds each) instead of 3 and let him fire at will.
My son qualified as a sharpshooter for targets at 1,000 yards. I’m impressed at 300 feet, not just at 3,000. Anyway, he got several kills of fedeyeen snipers or assault troops who used women and children as human shields. Fired when he could, didn’t fire when he risked hitting the civilians.
THe one he didn’t get, which I have written about before, was a good Iraqi sniper who was in a multistoried abandoned building. He would shoot and then move to another window or even another floor.
My son would try to anticipate where he might pop up next and put a 3 shot burst into that window. Kept missing him but he was getting a feel for how this guy thought.
Unfortunately he never got the bastard as one of our Abrams tanks came by, saw what was happening, and blew up the building with one shot. End of sniper. My son was pissed. That was his target, but everyone was safer, earlier.
I think Hitchcock set the American record in So. Vietnam at over 1,500 yards, or perhaps more. I’m sure it was at least half a mile away. A VC or NVA Colonel or General who stepped out onto the porch of his hut and BLAM, worm-food.
Jungle sniping is a lot different than desert sniping but our guys who do this are outstanding and deserve our total respect, Americans, Canadians, Brits and Aussies.
Has to be, the guy wouldn’t even be in the scope when he pulled the trigger. We are talking dealing with cross winds, elevation, image distortment, gravity and even at that distance earth curvature all while battling diminishing power as the bullet loses steam. This sniper literally made a shot that will be almost impossible to beat.
Very nice.
golux
RHR
Pretty sure the existing record was theirs already....from the Sandbox days.
I talked with a guy at our range who had a tack driving M1-A with a 5x22 NightForce scope. He bought the setup with the idea of learning what went into developing the abilities of a sniper. He is into military history.
He gave a stream of conscience presentation for 5-10 minutes, and ended by saying that as far as he was concerned he was still at the bottom of the learning curve these many months later.
Serious sniping.
There is a passage in one of Eisenhower’s books about taking Cherbourg. It quotes a German commander who said, “We decided to surrender, when the Americans began using their long range artillery as sniper rifles.
In some sniper movie with Mark Wahlburg as the patsy, they had snipers advising them. In an interview one of the advisers was saying how they couldn’t show in the movie what really happens. (In the movie the guy gets shot in the head and some blood flies out the back.)
The adviser said “At those ranges the bullet is going down more than across - it would enter the head but then angle down - the head would be gone, and a big slice going down the torso.” I have no way of knowing whether the guy was telling the truth or not.
I do recall the time I thought I could kill a rabbit with my .308 and still have some food. I figured a “head shot”. The round entered the head - but blew out half the body as it angled through. Learned never to try that again (I was only about 16 - stupid kid!).
Are they going to ask him to shoot Canadians who doesn’t use the correct pronouns?
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