FYI, and FTR, this means you have your gun sighted in for zero at TWO different distances…100y and then again farther out, where the bullet drops past your zero point…I have my 30.06 zeroed at 100y because that is the exact distance from my stand to my feeder…but it also means that my .06 is zeroed at somewhere around 550y, as well, if my math is correct.
I can’t speak for others, but I think 9/11 was brilliant.
Also, there’s a Nazi unit that’s quite impressive: Brandenburgers - Wikipedia
About as close to a whole unit of James Bonds as ever existed (to my knowledge).
I find those two examples admirable in terms of being impressed by their skill, ingenuity etc, not by the ends they served.
In the case of the British sniper though, I find it admirable for both skill and the ends it serves.
On a side note, with a shot at such long distance, I fear that the Taliban will complain to the UN that Britain is “gay” and “has auto-aim on”.
Ballistics question: At such a long distance, is the bullet still supersonic? Perhaps that’s why the Taliban fighters didn’t hear the shots.
According to this, the standard .338 Lapua round goes subsonic around 1500 meters, 1800 for special low drag ammo.
Would you like to elaborate on the meaning of this sentence, then?
:dubious:
Watch which way the first body flies to see where the shot came from. Even after a mile and a half there’s still a lot of energy in the round. I’d post youtube examples but I’m at work and it’s blocked. It’s just horrible. Bodies shred like a ragdoll…
Yes, but they are Afghani’s or other brown-skinned people, so it doesn’t really matter. Stop trying to take the gloss of this man’s achievement!
Reported for threadshitting.
Well, maybe now an OP glorifying the deaths of our enemies can be moved from Mundane Pointless Shit, into a forum more worthy of the subject?
I’m not going to move the thread – the discussion of the ballistics, luck vs., skill, etc., is fine here.
The discussion of the morality of the sniper’s actions, and the morality of celebrating his actions, and of the war as a whole, etc. – take it to GD or the Pit, whichever you prefer. Feel free to link here to that new thread, wherever it is.
And by “you,” I mean everyone who has participated in that part of the discussion, pro and con.
Thanks,
twickster, MPSIMS moderator.
Firstly two shots in a row can be coincidence, three ? highly unlikely to be pure luck.
Secondly I don’t think that these people were actually killed because they wish to convert all other people to their own particular brand of militant religion by force.(Or failing that, kill them)
Or for that matter turn women into virtual chattels and censor all viewpoints/science that differ from or undermine their own doctrine.
Or because they’re instrumental in growing and supplying opium in large quantities for export to people who are , or soon will be , addicts with their lives and probably those of their loved ones ruined.
Though its very noble of you to be so concerned for them.
No they were killed because they were out to kill other people themselves, probably innocent people.
So the sniper ultimately saved lives, more then likely innocent ones.
Whoops, sorry Twickster ,I posted that without reading the whole thread.
The third was an inanimate piece of machinery. Not exactly a difficult target. And would it really have been destroyed by a rifle bullet from a mile and a half away?
Oh, and did someone go to the site and verify they were dead and the machine gun disabled?
No, I’m sure they just flipped a coin, it came down heads, and they decided to call it a win.
Once again, ivan, you have proved that you know absolutely nothing. About anything. The amount of ignorance in the quoted post is staggering. If we could only harness it for Good, instead of Evil.
With you all the way buddy. Give me a big gun and I could hit inanimate objects miles away, no problem.
They should get us over there, we could just sit in HQ, sniping away at guns and shit miles away, we would win this war by teatime.
It really aint difficult, why dont they have hundreds of guys perched in trees, sniping away at innocent civilians? Bloody generals, why cant they see this?
Hey, at least I can do complete sentences.
Is it worth continuing this argument guys?
I’m with Ivan on at least one thing: would a bullet fired over a mile and a half away have the requisite kinetic energy to do significant damage to a machine gun by the time it hit? What sort of damage must one inflict on a machine gun to disable it? Also, are there many snipers in the Household Cavalry? Aren’t they the ones with the spiffy shiny helmets?
I saw a program on a long range sniper. He had to compensate over 5 feet for drop and 6 feet for the wind. That is some complicated shooting.
That’s good for a predator missile or a sentry gun, unless he’s got hardline. In which case he gets a precision airstrike!