Canadian Snipers

[rc2]

I watched the you tube clip. We all know that these are varmints being shot with .22 centerfires right. The canadian sniper thing has been going around for a few years.

[ar15jules]

I am with you on this one. They are VARMINTS, rock something or other.
Jules


if you want to see some similar action, go to www.dogbegone.com

[Lycanthrope]

Originally Posted by rc2

I watched the you tube clip. We all know that these are varmints being shot with .22 centerfires right. The canadian sniper thing has been going around for a few years.

Yeah. Rockchucks.

[knight0334]

Originally Posted by ar15jules

I am with you on this one. They are VARMINTS, rock something or other.
Jules


if you want to see some similar action, go to www.dogbegone.com

those dogbegone movies rock!

[tec]

Quiz time! Name that U.S. General...


Hints-
Place: Spotsylvania, Virginia
Date: May 9, 1864

Question-
This U.S. Army general was probing confederate lines with his infantry when they came under fire from Confederate snipers at ranges of around 1000m. After seeing his men duck for cover, he yelled the now famous phrase, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Not minutes after this, he was slain by a snipers round that hit below his left eye.

Don't cheat and use Google!

[Tokamak]

It looked like someone put a stick of dynomite under that guy.

And I thought my .357 packed a punch...

Oh, wait, I just saw the posts that said it was a fake, eh.

[PA Rifleman]

Originally Posted by tec

Quiz time! Name that U.S. General...


Hints-
Place: Spotsylvania, Virginia
Date: May 9, 1864

Question-
This U.S. Army general was probing confederate lines with his infantry when they came under fire from Confederate snipers at ranges of around 1000m. After seeing his men duck for cover, he yelled the now famous phrase, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Not minutes after this, he was slain by a snipers round that hit below his left eye.

Don't cheat and use Google!

Don't need to, it's on a lot of sig lines. Sedgwick.

[GetSome]

The longest range recorded for sniper kill is 2,430 metres (2,657 yd), accomplished by a Canadian sniper, Corporal Rob Furlong, during the invasion of Afghanistan, using a .50 caliber BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 bolt-action rifle. This meant that the bullet had a flight time of ≈ 4.5 seconds, and a drophttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajectory_of_a_projectile#Height_at_x of ≈ 70 meters (230 ft).

The previous record was held by US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock, achieved during the Vietnam War, at a distance of 2,250 metres (2,461 yd).

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Imagine that 4.5 seconds.... 2 tango's standing there, one would see his buddy shot/killed and then 4.5 seconds later hear the shot............................................

or would it be like 9 or more seconds..???? isnt the speed of sound 1120 FPS?

[GetSome]

Originally Posted by Mtdew

yep, It was a M2HB outfittted w/ a scope and modified to be single shot.

It's still MUCH more impressive than anything done with a bolt action rifle today

according to wiki this is the gun used...

[Lycanthrope]

Originally Posted by GetSome

according to wiki this is the gun used...

He was referring to the kill Hathcock made with a .50 in Vietnam. Not the Canadian snipers.