I've seen videos of people being shot at by a long range sniper. The target looks around a bit confused when the first shot goes by (it maybe hits something nearby) and are diving for cover soon after the second one. You would only get several shots if you had a pretty clueless target.
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There's a video reenactment of Rob Furlong's shots, think he missed the first 1 or 2?
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Maybe special forces have some kind of steerable bullet that will help achieve 1 shot 1 kill? On second thought if the bullet were to be found / reverse engineered / intercepted, maybe that's not a good idea unless it explodes.
Here is a video concerning the shot. The video implies it was one shot. I wasn't there so I can't say.
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Sure there is luck involved. In 10 seconds the target could move for one thing, but there is tremendous skill too.
Rob Furlong's sniper shot - Search Videos
Sure there is luck involved. In 10 seconds the target could move for one thing, but there is tremendous skill too.
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Ok, you are right.
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He misses twice (2nd miss hits the guy's backpack), here's the interview with him from the History Channel:Here is a video concerning the shot. The video implies it was one shot. I wasn't there so I can't say.
Rob Furlong's sniper shot - Search Videos
Sure there is luck involved. In 10 seconds the target could move for one thing, but there is tremendous skill too.
They say flight time was 4 seconds.
Yeah, a guy I know shoots competitively in the reserves and won a competition just by aiming between the two silhouettes presented on a swirling windy day... I guess they didn't have to call which one they were aiming for, and he got "lucky" and hit one well. I guess it took experience to go with that strategy and it paid off.
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Experience is key 100%, but it is a math problem, that you dont have all the variables for. For instance, in easy math terms, 2 miles with a 1 MOA gun and shooter and ammo, no wind......a perfect group would be 36". The average person is no more than 20'' wide at their widest. A first shot hit probability is 60% roughly assuming no wind or range corrections. The thing is, no one can do it, on command over and over and over why???? The variables you cant tabulate, especially the wind at distance. The further the bullet flies, the slower it gets, the more effect on its path by the wind. There are ways to see this, such as using the mirage in a variable power scope focus or parallax adjustment. There is the factor that the wind changes as the bullet is flying.......and so on.
But I am no expert.
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you mean like that one movie?
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I haven’t seen any movies with steerable bullets but certainly I am not the first one to think of it. Which movie was it?
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Runaway (1984 American film) - Wikipedia
In the first link it appears the bullseye is a spray painted blob.
I'd expect a plain black bullseye with a sharp edge at least.
I'd expect a plain black bullseye with a sharp edge at least.
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at that distance, the sharply painted bullseye would look like a wavy squiggly bullseye
This seems to be about Rob Furlong shooting a McMillan TAC-50 for Canada's PPCLI in Afghanistan. It's a long shot, but it's #4 on the longest shot list.
So we still don't know how many rounds the unnamed sniper from Canada's JTF-2 fired for the #1 longest shot.
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Yes, because you had searched for Rob Furlong's sniper shot, so I figured that was the one we were discussing.
We might get more details on the 2017 shot in a few years (or maybe not).
Nice, can't imagine seeing something that far
There's a video circulating Ukraine new media showing a shot of a successful shot by a Ukrainian sniper at a range of over 2-miles. (12,470 ft).
WSJ is running an article on it but it's behind a paywall. The cartridge used appears to be custom. Think of a 50 cal set in brass that holds twice the volume of powder.
WSJ is running an article on it but it's behind a paywall. The cartridge used appears to be custom. Think of a 50 cal set in brass that holds twice the volume of powder.
Just a little bit of cant on that scope base.
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