Tailiban Snipped at 3079 yards

Australian snipe a guy almost two miles away. Bullet was in the air 6 seconds

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/11/14/australian-sniper-kill-at-3079-yards/.

 

And the author arguing its not a record! Its not like there was a firing squad with ak47's littering bullets in the air. What a joke. Maybe he should pace out 3000yds and write another blog about it.

Ps- thats over 1.5 miles. Amazing to say the lease.

 

there are world records kept for killing people at distances?

 

yes

 

that is a sick shot. Ridiculous.

Crazy thing about that shot is at that distance the bullet is falling back down at a super high angle by then from what I gather. The bullet would hit the guy nearly in the top of the head.

As they said in the "Shooter" DVD Extras about true snipers, Everything comes into effect. Wind, earth rotation, barrometric pressure, altitude, air temp.. everythign.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills

Oorah! Sgt. Hathcock.

 

Why wouldnt there be?

 

On the confirmed 1250m list, that last one is the most impressive, using that round and that rifle.

And those raufoss rounds are insane to be used against a human. They have the effective destructive power of a 20mm cannon round

 

Yup. Although Guinness frowns on record attempts when there isn't a war going on.

 

You look hard enough.... there is always a war going on...

 

Still the benchmark. Took a dude out through his own scope. One in a million.

 

How would a sniper factor in the Coriolis effect?

 

Harrison gets the reach out and double tap award. Double kill at 2707 yards.

 

Don't know how, but at those distances they have to account somehow.

 

it is all somewhat "known" values, you just have to know where you are and which way you are shooting.

http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/SpinandCoriolisDrift.htm

Start adding it all together though, and getting to ridiculous distances and you start seeing just how AWESOME a shot like the OP is.

There is just so much to account for.

 

From that link the horizontal figure
http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/horizontal.jpg

Then they have to figure Vertical

http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/vert.pdf

and spin drift

And azimuth.

And wind

And the drop of their round

And the elevation they fire from and the elevation of the target

and where the target will be 6 seconds from now

And

And

and


Snipers are freaking COOL

 

I think he's arguing that it's not fair to give one guy the record because they don't know which shot killed the bad guy.

 

You guys should watch Magpul's Art of The Precision Rifle. Mind bending info on long distance shooting. Including the mile. It has to be seen to even begin to understand the science involved.

 

I can barely hit a deer with a slug at 50 yards.

 

With, or w/o a scope..?