#9063753 - 06/22/17 10:08 AM
Canadian sniper, to put in perspective.
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Big Tasty
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http://www.newsweek.com/world-record-sniper-kill-isis-iraq-canada-628156
Not that I'm all rah rah about celebrating kills but put this distance into google maps and it is essentially being at the top of a building at Yonge and Bloor and hitting someone at Yonge & Queens Quay!
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#9063852 - 06/22/17 12:26 PM
Re: Canadian sniper, to put in perspective.
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Just a bit outside of my comfort range, lolz
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#9065409 - 06/24/17 11:15 AM
Re: Canadian sniper, to put in perspective.
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Yea I heard about this on the radio this morning, 3.5kms is crazy. Not that I know the first thing about guns or sniping but I can imagine there is a lot more to it than just aiming and being steady.
I have to be really steady when trying to hit a target at 300M with an old Remington .308. The sniper must've been using one hell of a rifle for this shot. Likely a Barrett.
I can't even imagine trying to hit 2000M, much less 3500M. Must've been a huge scope on that rifle. How can you even see a human at 3500M ?
At 3500M even the slightest error will be meters off target. The bullet has to be perfect! And I can't imagine the math the spotter was doing to figure out the windage on the sniper's scope. You have to account for everything. Temperature, wind, gravity, angle, recoil etc. An insane amount of math.
I'm pretty sure that this wasn't on the first shot either. They probably missed a few before they got the record breaking kill.
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