Posted on 09/29/2022 1:07:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog
From the pull of the trigger, roughly 24 seconds elapsed before forward spotters heard the telltale plunk of a 422-grain copper bullet piercing the thin metal target.
The shooter was 4.4 miles away, a distance so great, the Earth’s rotation came into play.
It was a new world record for a rifle shot, set by the Jackson-based Nomad Rifleman team led by Schott Austin and Shepard Humphries. The shot was made with a custom-built rifle chambered for the .416 Barrett cartridge.
During a Zoom interview Tuesday with Cowboy State Daily, Humphries declined to identify the team member who made the shot.
It beat the team’s previous Wyoming state record of 3.06 miles. It also broke the previous world record shot of 4 miles set in 2020 by Paul Phillips of Texas.
The Wyoming team “had easier conditions” than Phillips because of the thin air at about 7,000 feet in elevation near Pinedale, where the shot was made Sept.13, Humphries said.
Still, even with the Wyoming air working in their favor, it was nothing short of miraculous for the shot, the 69th attempt that morning, to land inside an 8-inch orange bullseye. The bullseye had been painted in the center of a white, rectangular target measuring 120 inches wide and 92 inches tall.
(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...
Thanks...I appreciate that...
This skill will come in handy after the big collapse and the elitists who have been hiding in the bunkers near Jackson Hole come out to try to take back over.
I don’t give a crap if you appreciate getting smacked down or not.
Copper bullet?
What’s got up your azz????
I only meant that with 69 shots and spotters all around relaying back info, it is bound to happen...
If you do it with one shot, then THAT is something!!!!
...Target was 10 feet wide, 7 feet 8 inches tall...."
"...their 69th shot hit the bullseye....
Absolutely pointless. Why not use the Queen Mary as a target?
No rules regarding target size, no rules regarding how many rounds could be fired to make the attempt, and they have the chutzpah to call it a "world record"? Utterly ridiculous and proves nothing.
I could have sat in the exact same spot with a Ma Deuce and an infinite supply of ammunition and a spotter and moved the target back another foot, and even with the iron sights I'd eventually have hit the target and become the New World Record-Holder.
Which is exactly why Bryan Litz created the King of Two Miles shooting competition. Because simply the fact that you managed to hit a randomly-sized piece of steel after a hundred warm-up shots is a pretty shoddy standard for a world record.
Wake me when he's used this same rig to finish in the money at the KO2M.
I’m fairly certain they meant a copper jacketed bullet.
I saw that earlier...Was he not calm when he radioed in about the perp being down??? He was calm, cool, and collected...
“Non moving target”.
Moving target.
I did a search first but it did not link to this particular news story.
This one was fun the first time around. Many people don’t understand applying statistical rigor to claims.
Because simply the fact that you managed to hit a randomly-sized piece of steel after a hundred warm-up shots is a pretty shoddy standard for a world record.
This
How many people did the Vegas shooter hitting by praying and spraying and pointing in their direction?
Is that a new world record?
If you're shooting along an east-west line (line of latitude). If you're shooting along a north-south line (longitude), the velocity east-west velocity of the point closer to the equator is going to be greater than that of the point farther from the equator.
This effect is more pronounced at higher latitudes (that is, more northerly locations, in the CONUS).
David was impressed ...
Landing a bullet on target at 4.4 miles was “simply phenomenal,” said long-distance shooting enthusiast David Asmuth of Laramie. He’s the president of the Laramie Rifle Range board of directors.
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