Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:39 pm
Amazing shooting accuracy here. Awesome shot!
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Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:13 pm
That was totaly awesome!!! The fact that he missed the man's hand and leg, was something else!!
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:26 pm
I just figured they'd made the decision that his hand was sacrificial and were willing to take it off. He's a lucky guy!
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:40 pm
Wow. That was awesome. The guy is lucky that he didn't lose his hand!
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:22 pm
sportsfanatic85 wrote:Wow. That was awesome. The guy is lucky that he didn't lose his hand!
Remember, this whole episode started because the guy wanted to lose his LIFE. The police and their sniper are to be commended for preventing both his taking his own life and "suicide-by-cop" outcomes. Good work - good job!
But how is that guy now???? Yes he has his life and his hand, but how about the problems that led him to this situation - does he still have them, too? I sincerely hope he is getting help. This "good outcome" is only really "good" if that man finds a way to decide his life is actually worth living after all.
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:57 pm
looked like me shooting deer with a 22 after dark :P
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:30 pm
I saw this a few years back on tv.
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:57 pm
this one is better, but no video for it:
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/0 ... ed_ki.html
RAMADI, Iraq -- Gazing through the telescopic sight of his M-24 rifle, Army Staff Sgt. Jim Gilliland, leader of Shadow sniper team, fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier.
His quarry stood nonchalantly in the fourth-floor bay window of a hospital in battle-torn Ramadi, still clasping a long-barreled Kalashnikov. Instinctively allowing for wind speed and bullet drop, Shadow's commander aimed 12 feet high.
A single shot hit the Iraqi in the chest and killed him instantly. It had been fired from a range of more than three-quarters of a mile, well beyond the capacity of the powerful Leupold sight, accurate to 3,300 feet.
'I believe it is the longest confirmed kill in Iraq with a 7.62mm rifle,' said Sgt. Gilliland, 28, who hunted squirrels in Double Springs, Ala., from the age of 5 before progressing to deer -- and then to insurgents and terrorists.
'He was visible only from the waist up. It was a one-in-a-million shot. I could probably shoot a whole box of ammunition and never hit him again.'
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/0 ... ed_ki.html
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:58 pm
Using a .50 cal the longest Marine Corp confirmed kill is over 2,300 meters.
That's over 1.5 miles away!!!
That's over 1.5 miles away!!!
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:01 pm
good shot
not great
great would have been a headshot -- one less code 76.
just playing
not great
great would have been a headshot -- one less code 76.
just playing
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:43 am
dang. 
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:45 am
WOW
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:56 am
WOW........
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:14 pm
That was a great shot.
I think I can make ot from 50 yards further. Who wants to sit in the chair while I try it???
I think I can make ot from 50 yards further. Who wants to sit in the chair while I try it???
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:42 pm
I can't right now Oz but..I'd vote for Biggdowgg. Then again, I asked him about it..he said that a nail gun won't shoot that far!
Seriously, think about this. How satisfying it must have been for this guy to have made the perfect shot like that and instead of someone being dead, someone's life was saved. That had to have been a great feeling
Seriously, think about this. How satisfying it must have been for this guy to have made the perfect shot like that and instead of someone being dead, someone's life was saved. That had to have been a great feeling
Re: Watch This Sniper Shot
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:51 pm