Well, you might have multiple chances, but if you are further away, you’re possible success is reduced, even when you do have that chance.
So, if you manage to get the lifeboat tethered to the ship and at a close distance, you’ve just increased your chances. That’s one item.
And then, if you have four pirates that you have to take out all at once, but you manage to get one onboard with you, you’ve increased your chances by eliminating one from the equation, being that you don’t have to be sure to take out four at one time, but only three at one time.
You’ve increased your chances, once again...
And that’s how you get a successful operation with the highest chance of success, and not simply the *first time* you get a shot off... (with a lower chance for success...).
You see..., you don’t just “jump” at any chance you get, you go for the odds and the *best chance* you get and you “work the situation” in your favor and you do so with “calculation” and with “patience”... :-)
With all due respect, you're blowing stuff out of your arse here.
By the statements in this article, the SEALs had multiple viable shots before they took the ones at the end. Byt the statements in other articles, the shots taken were at night at a pitching boat. I'm not a sniper or anything resembling a marksman, but if a SEAL team says they had shots and did not take them, it means they had confidence they could have hit the targets much earlier, and that should have been the priority, and NOT to wait for a gun to be pointed at the captain with intent to kill him.
Out of 100 shots at a head-sized target from 200-300 meters, I would miss zero (where a miss is anything significantly off the point of aim), and my guess is that the SEAL snipers are better than I am. At 25 meters, I'd again miss zero shots. No difference.