Yes. You'd be amazed what a highly motivated Coastie with access to a polymer-hybrid slingshot with a tubular band is capable of. We're getting close to reachin out as far as 50 yards with a +/- 3' accuracy. Technology....
The “Shooter” is one of the more accurate perceptions of long range shooting I’ve seen yet, course it was still fairly hollywoodized. On the DVD, check out the commentaries by the actual sniper instructors, the best part. The 50 cal is hands down the worst game rifle to carry, the amount of energy expended during terminal ballistics creates a cavity wound no ER in the world could treat.
The rifle he used on the beef stew can and was later set up with is a .405, a USMC Scout Sniper Team made hits with this rifle at over 2200!!! Absolutely amazed...
Originally posted by 21yrsUSCGUSCS: On the subject of snipers....if you haven't seen it yet, the movie, "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg is excellent!
Don
Good movie, but the 200+ yard shot from a .22 rifle w/ the 1 liter bottle silencer was pretty far fetched. I know I could hit somebody at 200 yds, but it wouldn't kill them like in the movie.
We had an unofficial sniper in Haiti in '94, a retired Detroit SWAT cop who happened to have a 4X Armscorp scope that mounted on the carry handle of an M-16 rifle.
We sighted it at Camp Perry before we deployed, worked just fine.
JerryG, will you be at said Detroit cops' retirement party? Also, a couple guys from 309 attended the FBI sniper class they give at Camp Perry awhile back.Don't know if that was official or how they glommed onto that.
