“Kid must have practiced. Alot.”
There are a lot of people on this site saying it was an easy shot.
It absolutely was not. Especially when considering there was a down angle.
https://1source.basspro.com/news-tips/shooting/28025/understanding-shooting-angle-compensation
“”This kid, at 150 yards, made a great shot,” Pickle said Sunday of the would-be assassin, his voice grim. “I don’t know the specifics of whether he used optics, meaning a scope on his rifle,” he told BI.
“But even with optics, it takes somebody with training to aim at somebody’s head from 150 yards away, and you actually hit the edge of the head,” he said.
“That’s not a lucky shot. That’s a guy who actually shot before.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-secret-special-agents-explain-201237595.html
Either he did a lot of research and PRACTICE on his own, or he was taught by somebody who knew the craft.
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He had been spotted. The crowd was pointing, gesturing, and yelling - he had Snipers trained on him. Target was moving.
It’s not exactly like the Range.
For most shooting scenarios less than 200 yards, shooting angle isn’t much of an issue.
Flat-shooting calibers from zero to 200 yards have very little drop, so even at an angle of 45 degrees, aiming per usual will yield a typical result.
Where shooting angle has a greater impact is at angles greater than 45 degrees and at distances more than 200 yards.
There is so much mystery about what happened who can say if Crooks was a good shot or a poor one. Yes, he clipped Trump’s ear, and but for a fortuitous turn of his head, it would have been much worse. Still, the bullet had to go somewhere, and he may have just gotten lucky with that one of the six or seven shots he fired.