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A twelve foot offset is still a HELL of a shot. After a certain distance and as more factors start to figure in then a random element will start to take over.

Secondly, there is an intrinsic problem with shots that far - the bullet travel time (that's 3600 feet). A bullet traveling 2900ft/sec will take more than a second to get there, and it is a guess whether the target will be where you aimed at that time. That's why long range hostage shots are a bad idea, the target moves a half step during the half-second a bullet will travel a relatively manageable 500 yard shot, and you've missed and now have a pissed-off target.

This looks to be a no-lose shot, though. And this guy had to be incredible just to identify the target and get a bullet that close.

I shot the 1000yd match at the inter-service championships one year and some of the guys were shooting M-14s in the service rifle category. At that range some of the bullets were leaving oblong holes.

I was shooting the standard bolt action caliber for 1000yd, 300 Winchester Magnum. 20 shots prone with that caliber starts to hurt.

I'm sure these guys could be wrecking machines with a magnum, witout having to lug around the added weight of the Barret.