longest range sniper kill

[SNAP SHOT 194]

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The current record for longest range sniper kill is 2,430 metres (7,972 ft), accomplished by a Canadian sniper, of the third battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI), during the invasion of Afghanistan, using a .50 BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan bolt-action rifle. That's some shot he broke Carlos Hathcocks record for the longest range sniper kill. I was reading about this shot and it said that the round had a flight time of four seconds, and a drop of 44.5 m (146 ft). Like I was saying before amazing shot and so was Carlos Hahcocks shot achieved during ,achieved during the Vietnam War, at a distance of 2,250 m. Two excellent shots and two excellent snipers.

 

 

 

copied this from another forum. is this not truely amazing bullet drop of 146 feet,

[jamie g 17]

bet it wasnt with a hmr !

[SNAP SHOT 194]

bet it wasnt with a hmr !

 

well jamie following your observation i went to my ballsitics program, and it wouldn't log the shot but it did manage to get to 1050yards, 1607 yards roughly short of the said distance, the ballistics are a drop of 905.37 inches or roughly 75 feet with an energy left of 24 ft/lbs i think it would hardly do much damage.............................

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

That's barely comprehensible, is it? I mean; It's like he must have been aiming at the top of a hill to hit some c*** at the bottom of the hill!!! Jesus f*ckin wept!

 

How in hell did he even manage to discern his target at that sort of range anyway? I wonder what scope he was using?

 

That's just Awesome!

[scotlandforever 0]

i posted a video about that here

 

Jason

[SNAP SHOT 194]

the weapon used can't find the scope used.......

http://stupidbeaver.com/world-longest-dist...metres15-miles/

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

You read the Comments, mate? That guy being a Canadian has REALLY pissed a Lot of Yanks off!

[FJager 0]

The Yank heirachy tried to award him a medal, but the Kanook powers that be said they don't really encourage glorifying this type of thing.

[garyw 0]

as jager says.the canadien govt.says its soldiers dont kill or use the word kill.so the bronze star given to non u.s.a. combatants was put on hold to the two teams of snipers that were helping us. forces.

the same corporal who shot the enemy sniper at over 2400mts actually killed a enemy sniper in a tree at 1700mts with one shot and didnt use a range finder .the scopes they were using are the nightforce 5.5x22nxs they ran out of elevation for the long shot and used his spotter to guide him to the target it took 3 shots but got his intended.

wouldnt you think the enemy would get out of there asap.they probably thought they wont hit us at this distance. the rifles as some have pointed out are the mcmillan-tac 50.bmg with lilja barrels and nightforce 5.5x22nxs.scopes.some kit eh!

[woodga 170]

a down to earth guy no bragging about his ability doing his job and saving lives he has my full respect a genuine unsung hero as are all snipers a means to an end

[fishfish 17]

my BSA lightening has a comparable bullet drop over 30 yards!!!!

[SNAP SHOT 194]

SORRY gary but where did you read it was nightforce used, and the target turrets in the documentary look like the leupold m1 type to me. just an observation.

[TOMO 27,459]

im a bit thik with all this technicle stuff, but did the sniper put the crosshairs on the target, and the scope was ajusted to alow for the drop.

 

or did he actualy aim high, as ditch said at the top of a hill type thing

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Canadain's use leupold 16 power scopes, but mc millian endorse the nightforce nxs. So it was a leupold that the shot was taken with.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_TAC-50

 

Just wanted to find out what scope was used, nothing personal gary,

 

Some fooking shot with a x16 power scope.

 

 

To reply to your question tomo,he elevated the scope to its max adjustment, dialing up on the turrets if you will and probaly using the mil dots too, then held over, a rough guess if you will the the spotter giuded his shot in, not that he was far of with the first shot.

[garyw 0]

Canadain's use leupold 16 power scopes, but mc millian endorse the nightforce nxs. So it was a leupold that the shot was taken with.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_TAC-50

 

Just wanted to find out what scope was used, nothing personal gary,

 

Some fooking shot with a x16 power scope.

 

 

To reply to your question tomo,he elevated the scope to its max adjustment, dialing up on the turrets if you will and probaly using the mil dots too, then held over, a rough guess if you will the the spotter giuded his shot in, not that he was far of with the first shot.

snap shot your right the canadien sniper s use leupold scopes for most applications but when they helped the yanks on this mission they knew long range shooting was going to be the thing. a 16x power scope would be use less at ranges past 1500mts hence the need for the nighforce.the video link does indeed show the leupold scopes but the actual shooting on the day was with nightforce .if you go onto DAN LILJAS WEBSITE i think there is a write up on the very subject.hope this clears up the confussion.