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.
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Circumference...
“Only if you’re shooting exactly east or west, any component of north or south and you’ll have difference of conferences that you have to account for, think about it.”
Shooting E-W you will have (Wyoming) a slightly larger elevation correction than the N-S “windage” correction. Think about it.
Too bad his name isn’t David Azimuth.
Too complicated for me. The 200 yard target is about all I can manage to hit accurately.
Personal attack .... Not the first time you’ve brought that up. Is that becoming your Go-To in an attempt to get me in some sort of trouble? Kind of like folks of certain political/ideological leanings using every “ist” or “ism” they can think of to make accusations.
And I do apologize for not knowing what ‘ping’ means. Not up to date on all my internet slang and abbreviations.
...Introducing a variable not mentioned before to prove what, exactly.
Agreed,
I’d settle for consistency at 184 yards.
;)
“Personal attack .... Not the first time you’ve brought that up. Is that becoming your Go-To in an attempt to get me in some sort of trouble? “
You were the one that brought up that you didn’t need schooling on posting ethics!
“...Introducing a variable not mentioned before to prove what, exactly.”
You referenced it in your response ton a post that brought it up.
Both of you dismissed the E-W elevation correction.
My point was that an elevation correction is required.
I don’t
“And I do apologize for not knowing what ‘ping’ means. Not up to date on all my internet slang and abbreviations.”
Posting etiquette.
Yes, you are correct, if there is a difference. But there was no mention of a difference in altitude, if any. If there was, of course it would be factored into the equation. This is one of the tables in a sniper's handbook.
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