Posted on 01/09/2007 12:21:28 AM PST by pissant
Excellent post.
Ah yes, good old Tacoma and its famous Aroma.
My mom laughed when they named a pickup after a stinky/ghetto city. "Have they ever been to Tacoma," she asked. But it's much better now.
My apologies. There were a few truly lamenting the treatment of saddam, and I was flabergasted.
I'm just hoping the influx of seattlelites lets up. We can't become known as queer city #2.
It doesn't beat the record of that Canuck who pegged one at 1400 yards with a 50 cal.
Good shooting regardless. There's nothing like an afternoon of plinking..
Good shot!
Actually my sarcastic comment was about bulldozing a cliff so that a suicide/murder/accident wouldn't have happened (college football player down in California). No worries! (I'm glad folks DID disagree with that logic!)
Wow are you on the wrong thread!!! Serious gloating and celebration of another dead murdering Islamist thug be happinin' here. Get thee to a DU thread...
Oh, I remember that. You did get raked over the cliff. LOL
Too late ;_;
I just stay away from Capitol Hill.
Here's some late-night reading on snipers from a google search:
Hard to say exactly who is the best sniper in the world:
Mihail Ilyich Surkov (Russian 4th rifle division - WW2) 702 confirmed kills
Vasiliy Shalvovich Kvachantiradze (Russian 259th rifle regiment - WW2) 534 Confirmed Kills
Ludmila Mihaylovna Pavlichenko (Russian 54th rifle regiment - WW2)Female sniper - 309 Confirmed Kills (including 36 snipers)
Matthaus Hetzenauer (German 3rd Gebirgsjager Division - WW2) 345 Confirmed Kills
In 1967, US Marine Sergeant Carlos Hathcock set a record for the longest combat kill with a Browning M2 .50 BMG machine gun mounting a telescopic sight. The distance was 2,286 meters (2,500 yards) or 1.42 miles. Hathcock was one of several individuals to utilize the Browning M2 machine gun in the sniping role.
This success has led to the adoption of the .50 BMG cartridge as a viable anti-personnel and anti-equipment sniper round. His record stood unchallenged for 35 years until a pair of Canadian snipers broke his record in Afghanistan, making kills over a mile and a half, one using a Mc Millan .50 caliber sniper rifle.
In 2002, Corporal Rob Furlong used a TAC-50 to take out a Taliban insurgent at a range of 2430 meters, the longest recorded sniper kill in history.
Yaah Baby!!
I guess I understated his distance. I knew it was one for the books though.
Hell of a shot.
At 1,000 yards, depending on the bullet of course, that's something like 30 plus clicks up. Some damn fine shooting right there.
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Qoute: Let me tell you something, there are three rules in life I follow: never get less than 12 hours of sleep, never play cards with a guy who has the first name of a city, and never go near a woman with a dagger tattooed to her body. You stick with those and everything else is cream cheese. - Coach (Teen Wolf)
The biography on Carlos Hathcock was a great book. He was not only a crack shot but tough. He was nearly burned to death in a track but recovered.
I work with a guy named Dallas. He almost got me fired. The only thing that saved me was he knew what the hell he was talking about and wasn't about to back down an inch. Must be something about that name that does that.
Thanks Brit. And Thank you to our Military who is protecting us. G-d Bless you all
Long enough for him to say; "Why did Allah will that for?"
2450! Holy (ahem) Batman!
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