Keep up the good work SSG.

How about the best shot ever recorded and confirmed? Made by Master Corporal Arron Perry of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan during combat in 2003. Using a .50-caliber (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 rifle, Perry shot and killed an opposing combatant soldier from a distance of 2,430 metres(1.5 miles).

HoooAh there SSg Gilliland.

Shooting Tex:

Great Shot, Good Man, Outstanding Soldier.

Airnorne!!

Bump ^

oh yeah, and where was this 'Juba the Sniper' everyone was doing backflips over?

Keep up the good work. Remember, they've run out of virgins! (Everyone read the Danish Editorial thread, I hope! Danish Cartoons)

XBOX don't count

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Originally posted by 4570744:
What's the big deal. I have made a shot at 4200 meters and took out an insurgent.

But, once again....

No DUI but a nametape and flag. The LtCol. Roggeman commands an Armor Company, which would not have Snipers on the TO&E. Being an Armor troop, his DCU's would not be so sterile.

That's a nice suppressed M4, but not one picture of a M21/24/40/107 that a Sniper would use.

The shot would have easily calculated and adjusted for, not a hail Mary "one-in-a-million" shot, Well, easy for an actual Sniper. Also, 1,250m is still well within the capacity of an M10 scope. Bullet drop for a 168gr bullet at 1,250m would be close to 8'----not 12', and the shooter will know precisely due to the Mil-Dot reticle in the scope.

There are no "long barreled" Kalishnikov's, and a Sniper would be able to tell the difference immediately for intell reasons.

"The one-shot-one-kill thing is one of beauty but killing all the bad dudes is even more attractive," said Staff Sgt Gilliland, whose motto is "Move fast, shoot straight and leave the rest to the counsellors in 10 years" and signs off his e-mails with "silent souls make.308 holes". I have yet to meet a Sniper that would say anything nearly as stupid as this. BTW, it's ".308 holes make silent souls".

I said it before, I'll say it agian, I think this story is bogus.

No "long-barreled Kalashnikovs" but what about the Dragunov, which is similar in appearance to the AK?

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Originally posted by MSConnelly:
No "long-barreled Kalashnikovs" but what about the Dragunov, which is similar in appearance to the AK?

A Sniper will easily and quickly distinguish between a AK and a SVD.

Just so you know, the SVD is an original design based on the PK action, not the AK.

This statement: 'There are no "long barreled" Kalishnikov's' is in error. The Romanians have a long barreled AK variant chambered in 7.62x54R. See below:


Note, that this is internally the same as an AK series and quite different from the Dragunov, the major differences are: 1)in the AK series, the gas piston is part of the bolt carrier, in the Dragunov, it is separate, much like the FAL; 2)the gas cylinder on the barrel is quite different; 3)the bolt return spring on the Dragunov is fixed to the receiver cover; 4)the trigger groups are completely different, and 5)due to the difference in the trigger mechanism, the magazine on the Dragunov is spaced further from the trigger guard.

Okay genius, tell me, with a weapons factory in country pumping out tens of thousands of AK's and SVD's during Saddams rule, why the hell would they need to buy a civilian rifle from Romania that was recently developed for the US market?

Once again.....a SNIPER would not say it was a "long barreled AK". He would correctly note it as a SVD.

Semantics do not make a discussion.

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Okay genius, tell me, with a weapons factory in country pumping out tens of thousands of AK's and SVD's during Saddams rule, why the hell would they need to buy a civilian rifle from Romania that was recently developed for the US market?

Hey dicweede, I provided the information, if you did a little research on the Romanian rifle, the FPK (the proper designation of the Romanian rifle,) you would have found out it is what the Romanian army used instead of the SDV.

And exactly where did I say a any sniper said it was a "long barreled AK?" Or, that there would be any Romanian FPK's in Iraq?

Your statement:

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There are no "long barreled" Kalishnikov's

is in error.

But now I see you are back-peddaling on that statement.

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.....a SNIPER would not say it was a "long barreled AK". He would correctly note it as a SVD.

Maybe you should try and read other people's posts before you decide they are in disagreement with you.

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Originally posted by kogybear:
Maybe you should try and read other people's posts before you decide they are in disagreement with you.

Maybe YOU should read the original post that states "...a long barreled Kalishnikov.."

Been there? I have, and didn't see ONE Romanian "long barreled AK", but I did see a crapload of Soviet and Iraqi made SVD's.

If you want to sound like you knew your shiite, perhaps in your next post you can type up additional info that would cover your azz later on. "SGT Gilliland" allegedly took the shot at 1200+m, do you really think he could distinguish between a Romanian "long barreled" AK...and a SVD? OR would he simply say to himself "Crap, there's the sumbeech with the Dragunov that shot at us."?

I pointed out salient errors in the "story" that failed to pass the no-BS test. You want to whine about semantics and petty details.

Dicweed. Yeah, that's good

I see reading comprehension is not your strong suit.

I never referenced the original post, or the various type of weapons found in Iraq, or whether or not anybody could identify a weapon at any range. I referenced your false statement:

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There are no "long barreled" Kalishnikov's, and a Sniper would be able to tell the difference immediately for intell reasons.

There is such a thing as a "long barrelled AK."

Sheeeesh, why don't you 2 grow up already.......

I heard the record with a 50bmg was 2600 meters. That sounds close to the Canadian figure. This guy's shot is still really good for small arms. NOT a coffee achiever!

The current record for longest range sniper kill is 2,430 metres (7,972 ft), accomplished by a Canadian sniper, of the third battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI), during the invasion of Afghanistan, using a .50 BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan bolt-action rifle. This meant that the round had a flight time of four seconds, and a drop of 44.5 m (146 ft). The previous record was held by Carlos Hathcock, achieved during the Vietnam War, at a distance of 2,250 m.

The USMC's GySgt. Carlos N. Hathcock Award is named after GySgt. Carlos N. Hathcock. The award is presented to an enlisted Marine who has made an outstanding contribution to marksmanship and marksmanship training. Tom Berenger portrayed Hathcock in the movie “Sniper.” Hathcock enlisted in the Marine Corps in May 1959 and served as a distinguished marksman throughout his career. He set the rifle marksmanship record for the Marine Corps "A" Course in 1963 by firing 248 points out of a possible 250. GySgt. Hathcock served two tours of duty in Vietnam where he was instrumental in forming the 1st Marine Division Scout Sniper School. When a 24-year old Marine sharpshooter named Carlos Norman Hathcock II chalked up the farthest recorded kill in the history of sniping - 2,500 yards (1.42 miles, a distance greater than 22 football fields) in February 1967 he fired a Browning M2 .50 Cal. Machine Gun. Hathcock, the military’s best known sniper, said “The most deadly thing on the battlefield is one well-aimed shot.”

During the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army placed bounties from $8 to $2,000 on the heads of Marine snipers. Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock, with 93 confirmed kills, actually held the record bounty of $30,000 and killed every Vietnamese marksman who sought it.

Hathcock, one of the Corps' top snipers credited with 93 kills in Vietnam and a Silver Star recipient, died on 22 February 1999 of multiple sclerosis in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the age of 56. By 2002 his sone, Gunnery Sgt. Carlos N. Hathcock III, the head coach for the Marine Corps Rifle Team.


veitnam:

Hathcock, however, did not hold the confirmed kill record. Sgt. Chuck Mawhinney is credited with 103 confirmed kills and an additional 216 unconfirmed kills. He served 16 straight months in Vietnam and was sent home only because a Navy chaplain declared him combat fatigued. “I did what I was trained to do,” said Mawhinney in a 2000 interview with the L.A. Times. “I was in country a long time in a very hot area. I didn’t do anything special.”

In Vietnam, Mawhinney regularly killed the enemy from up to 800 yards away and occasionally beyond 1,000. He never thought about the humanity of his targets, he said. “I never looked in their eyes, I never stopped to think about whether the guy had a wife or kids.” He always told other snipers what was told him after his first kill. “That wasn’t a man you just killed; it was an enemy,” he said. “This is your job. This is what war is all about. You screw up, you die.”

Negative on the movie "Sniper". Tom Berenger did not portray Carlos Hathcock. He played a character loosely based on events in Carlos Hathcocks career.

I got a kick out of him filing on his bullets. Geeze, how did he keep them round? And, wouldn't that change the weight? It was just sooooooo realistic.