Sniper hits ISIS Commander from 1.5 miles

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Sniper hits ISIS Commander from 1.5 miles

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This may not be new, but it just came to me from another source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -away.html

Terrorist literally blown apart by long distance .50 cal bullet.

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skeathley wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:31 am This may not be new, but it just came to me from another source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -away.html

Terrorist literally blown apart by long distance .50 cal bullet.

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The most amazing part is the shot was made with a Browning .50 Cal machingun with a "special" sight! :cool:
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I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.
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bblhd672 wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:20 am I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.
Carlos Hethcock sniped a VC commander in Vietnam with an M2 with an optical sight mounted on it. The distance was something like 1700 yards.
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either way 1.5 miles.....Wholly cow batman. that is an incredible shot and lots of just right wind and luck.
but overall its freaking awesome :hurry: :hurry:
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I wonder how many of his troops decided, there are easier ways to make a living, after he suddenly exploded in front of them? From that distance you would probably never hear the shot.

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The Annoyed Man wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:59 am
bblhd672 wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:20 am I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.
Carlos Hethcock sniped a VC commander in Vietnam with an M2 with an optical sight mounted on it. The distance was something like 1700 yards.
I believe that GSgt. Hathcock held a patent on that scope mount.
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Jusme wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:59 am I wonder how many of his troops decided, there are easier ways to make a living, after he suddenly exploded in front of them? From that distance you would probably never hear the shot.

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Somewhat like Quannah Parker when Billy Dixon shot Parker's medicine man off of his horse at about a mile away. (BTW, he was using a 50-90 Sharps.)

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Charles L. Cotton wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:04 pm
Jusme wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:59 am I wonder how many of his troops decided, there are easier ways to make a living, after he suddenly exploded in front of them? From that distance you would probably never hear the shot.

:eek6 :leaving
Somewhat like Quannah Parker when Billy Dixon shot Parker's medicine man off of his horse at about a mile away. (BTW, he was using a 50-90 Sharps.)

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bblhd672 wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:20 am I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning?wprov=sfla1
M2 as a sniper rifle
USMC M2 fitted with a Leupold CQBSS variable power scope.
The M2 machine gun has also been used as a long-range sniper rifle, when equipped with a telescopic sight. Soldiers during the Korean War used scoped M2s in the role of a sniper rifle, but the practice was most notably used by US Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War. Using an Unertl telescopic sight and a mounting bracket of his own design, Hathcock could quickly convert the M2 into a sniper rifle, using the traversing-and-elevating (T&E) mechanism attached to the tripod. When firing semi-automatically, Hathcock hit man-size targets beyond 1,800 metres (2,000 yd)—twice the range of a standard-caliber sniper rifle of the time (a .30-06 Winchester Model 70). Hathcock set the record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,250 metres (2,460 yd), a record which stood until 2002, when it was broken in Afghanistan by Canadian Army sniper Arron Perry.[62][63]
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jmorris wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 4:00 pm
bblhd672 wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:20 am I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning?wprov=sfla1
M2 as a sniper rifle
USMC M2 fitted with a Leupold CQBSS variable power scope.
The M2 machine gun has also been used as a long-range sniper rifle, when equipped with a telescopic sight. Soldiers during the Korean War used scoped M2s in the role of a sniper rifle, but the practice was most notably used by US Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War. Using an Unertl telescopic sight and a mounting bracket of his own design, Hathcock could quickly convert the M2 into a sniper rifle, using the traversing-and-elevating (T&E) mechanism attached to the tripod. When firing semi-automatically, Hathcock hit man-size targets beyond 1,800 metres (2,000 yd)—twice the range of a standard-caliber sniper rifle of the time (a .30-06 Winchester Model 70). Hathcock set the record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,250 metres (2,460 yd), a record which stood until 2002, when it was broken in Afghanistan by Canadian Army sniper Arron Perry.[62][63]
Obviously I don’t know what I’m talking about! Just seemed odd to me with the wide range of sniper rifles in use that a M2 would be used.
I don’t really care what they use to take down ISIS soldiers just get ‘er done!
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Seemed pretty serious it was a machine gun.
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Now that is reaching out and touching someone! :tiphat:
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