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American Sniper widow Taya Kyle outshoots NRA champion
FoxNews.com ^ | 12/7/15 | Allison Barrie

Posted on 12/12/2015 6:59:58 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

Can a rifle turn a novice into a world-class sharpshooter? Yes, based on the shootout scoreboard at a major fundraising event for the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation Saturday.

A sharpshooting showdown pitted a young American woman against the reigning NRA global champion... the novice crushed her opponent at the inaugural American Sniper Shootout Saturday in Mason, Texas.

The victorious novice shooter was Taya Kyle. Founder of the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation, she is the wife of U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, known as "the most lethal sniper in US military history," author of autobiography "American Sniper," and the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's movie "American Sniper."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: americansniper; banglist; chriskyle; tayakyle; texas; trackingpoint
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To: advertising guy

I agree, very disappointed he did not win the Oscar.


21 posted on 12/12/2015 7:45:49 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: IronJack

Read the whole story. The technology that she had at her fingertips guaranteed that he never had a chance.


22 posted on 12/12/2015 7:46:14 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
Jesse Ventura better watch out

Judging by some of the comments at Fox below the story, I think Jessie or his minions could be posting over there.

23 posted on 12/12/2015 7:46:20 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

http://tracking-point.com/


24 posted on 12/12/2015 7:48:24 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: sockmonkey

Jessie is “off the grid”.

Or so he says...


25 posted on 12/12/2015 7:49:34 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: sockmonkey

From article...

“There were 29 targets with a total of 10,140 points available.

“Kyle scored a perfect 10,140. Piatt scored 3,040 points, making 58.4 percent of his shots. The scoring was weighted based on degree of difficulty.

“In the challenges where the shooters took on targets without a direct line of sight while concealed from ‘enemy fire’ - Kyle made 100 percent of the blind shots while Piatt did not make a single one.


26 posted on 12/12/2015 7:51:45 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: PROCON

I can’t bring myself to watch American Sniper.

What happened to Chris Kyle is so sad that it ruins it for me.


27 posted on 12/12/2015 7:53:00 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82
"American Sniper" is a tribute to him!

You'll love the movie, it shows what a hero and marksman he was and how he loved America.

Both Cooper and the gal who played his wife were EXCELLENT in their roles.

Watch it, his demise is only a small part at the end, but the funeral tribute is awesome!

28 posted on 12/12/2015 8:00:02 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Cool story, but I’ll wager it’s like one of those reporting that Vladi Putin scored five goals in a hockey game.


29 posted on 12/12/2015 8:07:13 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: PROCON

Thanks for the recommendation.

I have never had that reaction to a film before.

When I was a kid, I watched The Fighting Sullivans” so much I knew the dialogue by heart.

And they all die in the end-all five.

I admire his widow a lot.

Deep down, I feel like Chris was taken out—by certain denizens of Washington, DC—as a payback for his effectiveness against Muslim enemies.

Can’t shake the thought—the way he was murdered, and his friend, doesn’t add up for me.

He was one of biggest heroes of the Iraq War, and he gets taken out on our soil.

Maybe I need more time to reassess my feelings.

He was too good to go the way he did—he deserved much, much better.


30 posted on 12/12/2015 8:07:53 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 1rudeboy

You didn’t read it, did you.


31 posted on 12/12/2015 8:09:44 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Yes, I did. It read like an advertisement. But that's another issue. Why wouldn't a NRA champ let $1M go to the Kyle Foundation?
32 posted on 12/12/2015 8:11:43 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Because he had no chance against superior technology.


33 posted on 12/12/2015 8:13:09 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Seeing that I’m not familiar with it, I’ll just bow out.


34 posted on 12/12/2015 8:14:35 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: exit82

Taken out........YUP.....I don’t know how, but I know why it would be wanted by some.


35 posted on 12/12/2015 8:33:59 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (How many DICC's are there in the Republican party? Democrats In Conservative Clothing that is.)
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To: exit82; All

American Sniper was an excellent film. A fitting tribute and I felt the issue of his murder (not showing it, but more his willingness to help Vets) was respectful.

This is a cool system. Saw a story on it earlier this year.


36 posted on 12/12/2015 8:35:43 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: PROCON
"American Sniper" is a tribute to him!

I thought it was a tribute to the F-bomb. I served in the Navy and never heard anything like that. Disgusting what the hollywood crowd has contributed to the Gomorrah culture.

37 posted on 12/12/2015 11:33:54 PM PST by itsahoot
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I read it a few days back buy was remiss in posting it


38 posted on 12/13/2015 3:26:09 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Makes me like/respect her even more - and crave one of those rifles....


39 posted on 12/13/2015 4:46:29 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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