A hell of a shot

[General Havoc]

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/vie ... gest-shot/

[quote]SCOTS SNIPER KILLS TALIBAN LEADER WITH LONGEST SHOT

A SCOTTISH soldier has been praised for making the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan after shooting a top Taliban fighter from almost a mile away.

Corporal Christopher Reynolds took out the Afghan drug lord during some of the hardest fighting of the war so far.

The 25-year-old, of 3 Scots, The Black Watch, kept watch on a shop rooftop for three days to eliminate the target.

But he admitted the top-level Taliban fighter – known as Musa – was so far away it took him a couple of attempts to get the aim right.

Initially Musa, who was with four men, did not even realise he was being shot at.

But Cpl Reynolds, of Dalgety Bay, in Fife, together with his spotter Lance Corporal David Hatton, worked out different factors such as wind speed and the trajectory of the bullet to hit the target. Musa, who was more than 1,500 metres away, was taken out with a single shot to the chest.

Cpl Reynolds, who has killed 32 Taliban fighters, said: “I was quite proud of that shot. It is the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan. I am going to use that fact as a chat-up line in the pub when I get back home.â€

[Cynical Cat]

The article is in error. The longest recorded kill shot in Afghanistan, and the current longest range sniper shot ever, is 2,430 meters by a Canadian.

http://www.snipercountry.com/articles/k ... metres.asp

[General Havoc]

Jesus Christ... that's a Mile and a Half.

[Cynical Cat]

Jesus Christ... that's a Mile and a Half.

Yeah. He made a ~2,200 meters shot as well. Afghanistan's mountains have dry, thin air and great visibility basically making them ideal long range sniping territory.

[SirNitram]

These shots, all cited, give new meaning to the phrase 'Reach out and touch someone.'

[frigidmagi]

I was about to say... Look I'm no where near sniper material and I could hit man sized targets fairly regularly at little over a kilometer (half a mile).

With an M-16 A2.

Over open iron sites.

I was considered a meh shot in the Marines.

One assumes a sniper with a scope and a much more powerful rifle would do alot better.

Now I never hit an actual person anywhere near that distance in combat. None of my firefights ever had that much distance. Arabs seem to like to be close.