[OKSooner]

One could learn a lot from books I suppose, but shooting a rifle is a lot like learning a golf swing. (The operational aspects of sniping are something I know NOTHING about.) There are some who do it well, some who only know what they've read somewhere, and all the rest of us are just hackers after years of practice.

Hitting a target the size of a small plate at 150 yards is not easy for a "hacker", and add to that the stress that must surely (I wouldn't know it from experience, to tell the truth) exist when shooting something besides paper, and you're outside the 1st deviation.

[porte des morts]

You make some very good points. Adding to them (if I may)...

It would seem that LE is not releasing all the information, and in some cases giving misleading information for public consumption.

This latest shot was to the head and at night....even at 100-125 yards, not to bad of a shot.(how many of the others were to the head?)Answer:we don't know. This latest shot was reported as 'upper body' also. It has leaked out and been confirmed by witnesses that it was to the head.

At what distance are these shots from? I don't think the feds are giving us a truthful answer in the 100 yard theory. If there is no brass and no one saw the shooter, forensics would be the only way to tell, and with a busted up round to work with it is all a lot of guess work.(and easier to keep quiet, very few would know the real answer.)

I guess my real point here is we don't have all the facts, and I think a lot of the facts we have are misinformation.

[Ditter]

You have practiced for years & still consider yourself a "hacker" who would have difficulty hitting a small plate at 150 yards? We are a family of deer hunters & every member of our family, women (I am a woman)included could do this. It is not a huge feat. Now shooting a another human being would be an added level of stress that I can't even imagine but then we don't hate anyone, not yet anyway.

[tje]

Hitting a 9 inch plate at 150 yards doesn't really take a lot of skill. Especially with a decent weapon. I could consistently hit a 9 inch target at 100 yards with a .44 (TC) and that was with iron sites and standing. It didn't take that much practice.

I shot 1 inch groups at 200 yards with the .222 barrel. (with a rest).

[henbane]

Hitting a target the size of a small plate at 150 yards is not easy for a "hacker"--OKSooner

This latest shot was to the head and at night....even at 100-125 yards, not to bad of a shot.(how many of the others were to the head?)--porte de morte

Seems pretty easy if it's just a matter of putting a red dot on somebody's head and squeezing off a round.