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SCOTS SNIPER KILLS TALIBAN LEADER WITH LONGEST SHOT
DailyExpressUK ^
| 8/9/09
Posted on 08/10/2009 8:05:29 PM PDT by Sammy67
A SCOTTISH soldier has been praised for making the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan after shooting a top Taliban fighter from almost a mile away.
Corporal Christopher Reynolds took out the Afghan drug lord during some of the hardest fighting of the war so far.
The 25-year-old, of 3 Scots, The Black Watch, kept watch on a shop rooftop for three days to eliminate the target.
But he admitted the top-level Taliban fighter – known as Musa – was so far away it took him a couple of attempts to get the aim right.
Initially Musa, who was with four men, did not even realise he was being shot at.
But Cpl Reynolds, of Dalgety Bay, in Fife, together with his spotter Lance Corporal David Hatton, worked out different factors such as wind speed and the trajectory of the bullet to hit the target. Musa, who was more than 1,500 metres away, was taken out with a
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; banglist; blackwatch; duplicate; firearms; military; musa; scots; scottish; sniper; taliban; terrorism; weapons; wot
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To: Sammy67
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:14:45 PM PDT
by
dadgum
(Security System. Dog. 12 gauge. 3" magnum turkey loads. Shovel.)
To: Bulldawg Fan
22
posted on
08/10/2009 8:14:51 PM PDT
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
To: Recovering Hermit
I wonder is at a mile away when a .308 round goes whistling by if he ever heard it - obviously I guess he did not hear it.
23
posted on
08/10/2009 8:15:07 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
To: Sammy67
Nice shot!
24
posted on
08/10/2009 8:15:21 PM PDT
by
voteNRA
(A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
To: Bulldawg Fan
Aye, ya don’t mess with Highlanders!
25
posted on
08/10/2009 8:16:15 PM PDT
by
snuffy smiff
(the only good commie is a dead commie-also applies to muznuts)
To: Sammy67
What the hell are they doing posting his name and city or origin?
There are muzzy sympathizers all over the former great Britain. Do they want local retaliation? Its a small world after all////
26
posted on
08/10/2009 8:16:20 PM PDT
by
9422WMR
(When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.)
To: guitarplayer1953
I wonder what they were shooting to hit 1500 meters away? Any guesses? Musa.
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:16:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 201 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: guitarplayer1953
>I wonder what they were shooting to hit 1500 meters [4,921 feet!] away? Any guesses?
Don't know what he shot,
but I can't imagine how
the Secret Service
protects against stuff
like this here at home. Agents
must all have ulcers...
To: zipper
You forgot the, “Sniff ...”
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:17:22 PM PDT
by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: rawhide
Imagine that anti-tank missile slamming into a single person. Gibs!
30
posted on
08/10/2009 8:17:55 PM PDT
by
thecabal
(Destroy Progressivism)
To: thecabal
Imagine that anti-tank missile slamming into a single person. Pink mist?
31
posted on
08/10/2009 8:20:18 PM PDT
by
Recovering Hermit
(I shot the rooster, the one that used'er, wake me up at four A.M....)
To: thecabal
Are these things laser-guided?
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:23:46 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: theFIRMbss
Wolfram Alpha gives
the following example
as comparison:
-------------------------------------------------
1500 meters:
Comparison as length:
~ 19 x standard Manhattan city block ( 264 ft )
To: Sammy67
Who cares what the round was. That was an unfreakinbelievable shot. KUDOS and everything related to Kudos to the shooter. That is the result of LOTS of practice and skill coming together.
EERAH! Go scotsmen.
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:24:14 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
To: Sammy67
Two words, one name:
Carlos Hathcock, USMC
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:24:56 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: Blue Jays
That was my thought too. I don’t understand that.
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:25:05 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: thecabal
Not enough left to spread on toast....
To: Sammy67
To: Sammy67
He is awarded the “Billy Dixon Metal” for sure.
See the “Battle of Adobe Walls” if you don’t know what
Billy Dixon did with a .45-90 Sharps.
39
posted on
08/10/2009 8:27:00 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
To: Sammy67
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posted on
08/10/2009 8:27:33 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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