Posted on 11/30/2004 3:35:05 PM PST by InfantryMarine
That's a funny pic!
Bullet drop .... (.308 / 7.62 )
M118LR Special Ball - 17gr (2580fps)
100y +17.4" 200y +30" 300y +34.2" 500y +22.6" 600y 0" 700y -35.7" 800y -86.8" 900y -156.1" 1000y
-246.7"
Actually I was Infantry. In the Army, the infantry has antitank missiles, and mortars. I ran both 81mm and 4.2 inch mortar platoons.
But my dad was Artillery. I was born at Ft. Sill. Use to win bets with that fact.
Short answer: yes.
The straight line of sight intersects the curved (not quite a parabola) line of the bullet at two places. You normally don't worry much about the 50 meter crossing point, but the 900 yard crossing point is a good trick. Laser range finders are really useful for estimating range to within 3 meters or so. Gravity is pretty constant, and wind is the major source of error. If you shoot 10 km or more (and not due east or west with artillery) you have to make coriolis corrections for the non-inertial reference frame associated with a spinning earth.
All this can be put into a pocket calculator now a days.
What is the fps of a .50 a 1000 yds?
U.S. bullets help Canadian snipers set world record [NAMES US SNIPER AND GIVES HIS HOME TOWN!!!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714044/posts#comment?q=1
Lets hope the the jarheads are issued uniforms that either don't have a name on them or that it is an assumed name to confuse the reporters who seem to have no problems that revenge could be taken out on the mans family.
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