Not exactly.
Posted on 08/14/2017 10:19:31 PM PDT by Strac6
A Canadian sniper set what appears to be a record, picking off an ISIS fighter from some 2.2 miles away, and disrupting a potentially deadly operation by the terror group in Iraq.
Shooting experts say the fatal shot at a world-record distance of 11,316 feet underscores how stunningly sophisticated military snipers are becoming. The feat, pulled off by a special forces sniper from Canada’s Joint Task Force 2, smashed the previous distance record for successful sniper shots by some 3,280 feet, a record set by a British sniper.
The new record was set using a McMillan TAC-50, a .50-caliber weapon and the largest shoulder-fired firearm in existence. It has more than 13,000 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle, driving a 750 grain bullet more than 3100 feet per second.
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Since we don't know the conditions of the shot such as wind speed, altitude, etc.. we can assume optimum conditions and set a baseline.
The speed of sound is 1,088fps (feet per second)
The shot was 11,316 feet.
It would've taken approx. 10.4 seconds for the shot to be heard.
A 50 caliber bullet travels @ 3,000fps.
The bullet arrived at its target destination in @ 3.8 seconds.
The bastard never knew what hit him, and that's a shame. I want the bastard to have said "what's that? OH NO!" before getting his brains splattered all over the place.
Charles Whitman’s longest lethal shot was scored on Roy Dell Schmidt, an Austin city electrical service man who had been stopped by a police barricade on the south side of 21st Street. He was shot and killed while trying to leave the area. While I do not have the exact slant range, the ground distance between the center of the roper and where Schmidt was killed is about 988 feet or about 330 yards. If you want to give him the maximum benefit of the doubt and pretend he was on the very tip top of the structure, the maximum range at which he was hitting was 1034 feet or 345 yards (all values Roy fed up.)
Autocorrect got me there - all values are rounded up, not Roy fed. :P
Also, “roper” should be “tower.”
Oh.... Canada!
Thanks for responding. Gotta admit. That’s a heckova shot for a guy with no practice and a walnut-sized tumor in his noggin. The Tower would be approximately where a 24th-25th street might be if one existed.
This why one should never rely on Free Republic for ballistic calculations. :)
(This is also typically why I don't do math......)
Just FYI, the speed of sound, fps of a 50cal rd, etc.. I went and looked up as I don't know them off the top of my head as some on here might. I've no military background so again, I don't mind the correction if one's forthcoming. :-)
No,it was Private Jackson.
The furthest victims were roughly 1500 feet away and he was 241 feet up on the tower. So somewhere are 1518 feet away from his targets. The furthest away ones at least. Others were significantly closer.
The spotter describes the target and identifies it within the scene (using a higher-resolution scope than the rifle is equipped with). The spotter also describes wind conditions, estimates or measures range, and otherwise assists the sniper in making the shot. If the sniper misses, the spotter identifies the hit location so that the sniper can correct for it in a following shot. Although there are many solitary snipers, there are also a lot of 2-man sniper teams. The comedic soccer sniper series has such a two man team, the spotter and the sniper, working together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0d9V7wdocA
He had had plenty of practice in prior years and in the Marines. He mostly used a Remington 700 he already had. After the first ~20 minutes of his spree, return fire - mostly from civilians - kept him so suppressed that he could no longer fire accurately and had a massively reduced rate of fire. All of his killing from the tower was done in that first 20 minutes.
Also, I forgot that he actually made a longer non-lethal shot. He wounded Billy Snowden in the shoulder while he took cover in a barber shop doorway, some 500 yards out.
First soccer game I’ve seen that didn’t actually bore me to tears.
So, at that distance, are you just lobbing one out there and hoping it finds a target?
(BANG! 1...2...3), “Ahmed! Ahmed! You have no head!”
;-)
Not exactly.
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