6 seconds in the air
Australian sniper nails Taliban guy at 2,815 meters. That’s 3,078.52 yards. Nice shooting.
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November 14th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
That’s the .50BMG. Big strike zone. Just about anywhere it hits, it’s fatal.
November 14th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
That is a barret.. Not a 338,300 win mag or .308.. Was about to be impressed.. Not so much…
November 14th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
At 3k yards, a 50Bmg has about the same energy as a 44 mag at point blank. You damn skippy it matters where you hit. It you are not impressed, its because your not informed enough.
November 14th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I should add that a dude at a local gun range went suicidal with a 44mag and shot himself in the face. He pulled through, I believe. I know he was alive when the ambulance got there. Uncle covered it a while back.
November 14th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
2815 meters = 1.74916 MILES
1 MOA is 2ft 8 1/4in at that distance
What a shot!
November 14th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
“The targeted Taliban could not even hear the gunfire.”
That’s something to put the fear of allah in you… just standing there and Habib’s head explodes for no apparent reason.
November 14th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Totally with you Phenick. The average shooter’s heartbeat would cause the cross hairs to bounce left and right 6 feet at that range.
November 14th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Its been hard to impress me since finding out about Carlos Hathcock’s 2500 yard hit with a scoped .50 caliber machine gun in 1967… I just don’t consider this guy in even close to the same class..
November 14th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Hold over at that range (likely… I don’t know the elevation of the shooter +/- to the target) would have put the cross hairs well above the target. An impressive shot nonetheless.
November 14th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
The average shooter’s heartbeat would cause the cross hairs to bounce left and right 6 feet at that range.
If it was easy, we’d let the girls do it.
November 15th, 2012 at 12:58 am
nk, I’d like to introduce you to Nancy and Sherri Jo Gallagher.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:33 am
A handful of highly-skilled female snipers killed literally thousands of Germans on the Eastern Front.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:33 am
@ JohnSmith: you ought to be impressed. Even the USAF manuals listed the Maximum Effective Range of the .50 BMG (from long-barreled aircraft guns) at 2,500 yards.
November 15th, 2012 at 4:12 am
Thanks, guys. I read about Tania Chernova twenty years before the movie.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:23 am
Most impressive. However, Billy Dixon nailed a Comamche warrior at 1540 yards in 1874 with a UNSCOPED .50-90 Sharps rifle.
November 15th, 2012 at 6:11 am
Bravo, huck.
It’s not energy (mv2), it’s momentum (mv). A heavy bullet with a decent enough velocity. That’s why wood ships carried 100-pounders.
BTW, comatus, about the Gallaghers, targets don’t shoot back. Sniping is 5% shooting and 95% stalking.
November 15th, 2012 at 8:54 am
I am talking Rifle Tolerances, material quality and scopes.. An m2 in the late 60’s is not a purpose built sniper rifle from the 21st century, long barrel or not. 2200 was maximum range when firing for effect which is 200 yards less more than effective range. I guarantee if hathcock had one of the barret rifles he would have been taking far longer than 3000 yard shots.. Hitting a single person 2500 yards away while they were walking with a single shot in a belt fed machine gun is just nuts.
November 15th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Hey John,
I have a lot of respect for Hathcock…who doesn’t! But even he thought there was a lot of luck in that in an interview I saw with him.
I suspect he would be plenty impressed with this shot, even if you’re not.