Watch This Sniper Shot

[kantuckyII]

Amazing shooting accuracy here. Awesome shot!

[Philly]

That was totaly awesome!!! The fact that he missed the man's hand and leg, was something else!!

[kantuckyII]

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!

[sportsfanatic85]

Wow. That was awesome. The guy is lucky that he didn't lose his hand!

[caglewis]

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.

[swbaseballfan]

looked like me shooting deer with a 22 after dark :P

[The Instructor]

I saw this a few years back on tv.

[seofan_via_dublin]

this one is better, but no video for it:

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

[seofan_via_dublin]

Using a .50 cal the longest Marine Corp confirmed kill is over 2,300 meters.
That's over 1.5 miles away!!!

[whodeyAtown21]

good shot

not great

great would have been a headshot -- one less code 76.

just playing

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

dang.

[california kid]

WOW

[ohbuckeye2]

WOW........

[OZZIEOHIO]

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???

[kantuckyII]

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

[Boonedawg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyTRzL5AAQ


How ya like this shot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np3NthiI ... re=related