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Sniper killed would-be Trump assassin with 'one-in-a-million shot': source
Fox News ^ | 7/19/24 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 07/19/2024 8:36:30 PM PDT by LisaFab

The shot that killed the man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday was a "one-in-a-million shot," according to a source familiar with the investigation into the shooting.

Fox News learned from the source the kill shot was a single shot taken by a Secret Service counter sniper whose view was obscured.

A local tactical team also took a shot at the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but missed.

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KEYWORDS: assassin; assassination; assassinationattempt; banglist; coverup; rally; secretservice; secretservicesniper; sniper; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumpshooter; zecretservicesniper
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To: rdcbn1

Wikipedia says that the accuracy of the SR-25 is 0.75 MOA (basic) and 0.50 MOA (enhanced).

At 140 yards, 0.5 MOA (arcminutes) = 1/120 degrees, subtends sin(1/120) x 140 x 36 inches ~ 0.73 inches, less than 3/4” ballistic accuracy, less than 5/4” with the basic model. (Make sure your calculator is in degree mode.)

So if you aim for bridge of the nose, you hit the left or right eye. At 140 yards, the human face subtends about 4.0 MOA.


81 posted on 07/20/2024 3:59:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Mat_Helm

With the right equipment you can cloverleaf rounds at 200 meters. 7.62 is a fine round but not as inherently accurate or as wind shedding as more modem rounds in the same platform. I have a AR10 in 6.5mm 24” 5R 1:7 twist threaded that will cloverleaf at 200 and I could hand it to a complete novice and first round if I dialed it in for them they could pop tennis balls at 300m. So no not a one in a million shot at 150 yards any competent shooter could make the counter sniper shot. The suspect was hit right in the a t zone his front teath are gone in tbe high res imagery that’s a text book T Zone CNS shot from the front every tactical marksmen practices that shot religiously. In the movies you aim between the eyes. In reality the brain stem is the target not the frontal lobes. From the from the brain stem is directly behind where the nose meets the mouth that’s where you aim to shut a human off like a light switch. Higher motor function is not important sever the brain stem and the ability to move is instantly halted the body does later but the person is instantly and permanently immobilized exactly what a counter sniper’s mission is.


82 posted on 07/20/2024 4:00:54 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: Mat_Helm

1 yard = 0.9144 m exactly.

1 meter = 1.0936... yards


83 posted on 07/20/2024 4:06:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Mat_Helm

One MOA is about 1.047 inches at 100 yards, so the approximation that 1 MOA = 1” at 100 yards is close enough.


84 posted on 07/20/2024 4:08:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: LisaFab
A local tactical team also took a shot at the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but missed.

So, the reports from audio forensics that there were three weapons fired are correct, despite official denials. I doubt this is the last different story we hear.

85 posted on 07/20/2024 4:16:02 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: spacewarp

“...not only did he make the amazing shot, but literally hit the scope in the glass and went through his scope...”

Like in a movie? Please spare the thread the Marvel Comics/Netflix drama.

When the title of an article uses a superlative up front you can be assured the article is BS.

“one in a million”

“worst weather in 20 years” [Ron Brown execution]


86 posted on 07/20/2024 4:20:02 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: janetjanet998

For a sniper with the optics shown in the infamous picture, a 6x6 target at 200 yards is HUGE. Any decent deer hunter with an average 9-12 power scope can hit 6x6 ALL DAY LONG!!!!

Assuming the sniper was using 7.62 or .308 and aimed at the point where the punk’s eye was sighting in Trump, that’s an easy kill shot at 200 yards.


87 posted on 07/20/2024 4:22:54 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: LisaFab

A 200 yard shot is ridiculously easy to make.


88 posted on 07/20/2024 4:33:40 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Mat_Helm

Ok, I have a few questions about the shooter’s corpse.

Looking head-on from the front:

If he was shot from the front why was his face intact and the right, upper side of his skull broken up?

If he was shot from the front why was bone pushing out of the lower L side of the neck, under the jawline?

High right entry and lower left exit tells me the shot came from the upper right.

Only one thing to the upper right from that position (looking towards the shooter). And it’s not a one-in-a-million shot. In fact it’s in perfect over watch of the shooter’s position.


89 posted on 07/20/2024 4:48:39 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Really, unless this guy had a face the size of a pea, how is it a 1 in a million shot? With the quality of the guns and optics these snipers have, he should have been able to damn near shoot a fly off the guy’s face at 140 yards.


90 posted on 07/20/2024 4:49:40 AM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: LisaFab

This is stupid hyperbole. It wasn’t a one in a million shot or anywhere close. Maybe one in a hundred is believable. Probably more like a 1 in 5 chance. One in a million is winning the lottery type odds and yes, someone usually wins, but only because a million (or whatever) people are buying lottery tickets each week. One guy buying a single ticket each week for even up to a 100 years will almost certainly never win. So if a guy makes what’s estimated to be a 1 in a million shot on the first try, then something was obviously wrong with the estimation and the underlying assumptions that went into it.


91 posted on 07/20/2024 4:53:11 AM PDT by Humbug
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To: LisaFab
"one-in-a-million shot,"

So you're saying that about 350 people in the country can make the shot. That's probably true.

92 posted on 07/20/2024 5:15:20 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua

“So you’re saying that about 350 people in the country can make the shot. That’s probably true.”

We had that many that could make the shot at just one rifle club I belonged to.


93 posted on 07/20/2024 5:19:29 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: ridesthemiles

I posed this question on another thread.

I’ll pose it here.

Do Deep States around the globe have an assassination squad that they loan out to one another...?

Now that would explain a lot...


94 posted on 07/20/2024 5:21:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: CodeToad
We had that many that could make the shot at just one rifle club I belonged to.

Except that shot was through some trees at an unknown distance, not from the pintle mounted bobbling rifle dude and his prone buddy.

95 posted on 07/20/2024 5:29:01 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua

BS. “Unknown distance” my ass. It doesn’t even require an adjustment to the scope to make the shot, is easily estimated, and rifles shoot damned flat at 200 yards.


96 posted on 07/20/2024 5:31:29 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: LisaFab

I’ve made clean shot on groundhogs, out to 250 yards. Using a Remington 700 Sendora 0.223 Cal. 53 GR. Hornady Hollowpoints. Simmons scope. Not a one in a million shot.


97 posted on 07/20/2024 5:31:34 AM PDT by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: LisaFab

Well…they were on sloped roofs. LOL


98 posted on 07/20/2024 5:39:03 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: CodeToad

I wasn’t aware that they identified where that counter sniper was. It WAS NOT the 4 visible snipers on the two roofs, it was from a 3rd team. I haven’t seen a diagram of where the shot came from.

I agree, I could make a 200 yard shot easy, I know a lot of guys, myself included, who could do that shot.


99 posted on 07/20/2024 5:39:33 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: janetjanet998

6x6 from 200 yards with a scope?

I couldn’t do it all day, but I could probably do it 3 out of 5 times with some practice.

if they could see his face from that distance…thats all they needed.


100 posted on 07/20/2024 5:41:05 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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