Thread: Longest confirmed kill @ 3.450km

Good shot! Must be annoying as a victim of that shot...wandering along...doing your thing...only to be taken out by someone 3.5km away!

Originally Posted by Redback

I'm with you Justin, seeing someone die(assuming that's what the video shows) is not my cup of tea regardless of how wonderful the shot is.

Ahhhhhh no, its not at all what the video shows...I posted a video of guys shooting at a range over 4200 yards and the fact they state it took them 20 years to get that accurate, on a controlled range environment.

As for the ISIS combatant shot by the sniper, no loss to humanity there folks.

...still not getting it are you??? The glorification of this kind of activity sickens me and I'd imagine plenty of others too.

I doubt that many would have any compassion for an ISIS fighter that has been taken out of the fight.

Originally Posted by justinc

...still not getting it are you??? The glorification of this kind of activity sickens me and I'd imagine plenty of others too. Target shooting prowess is a TOTALLY different situation and is something i AM interested in and have friends compete in very successfully.
Sites like Liveleak and Funker530 are for that kind of 'chat'.

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I know where you are coming from Justin....saw a westerner beheaded with a blunt knife on the internet a decade or so back, and I felt sick for days. But, I don't think this post is about the death, it is about a well carried out military mission, without any gratuitous reference to death. I watch and enjoy doco's about the world wars etc, watched one lastnight, re the battle of Jutland....thousands died, but it happened, it is a fact. If a sniper on our side, in a war, can take out the enemy with no loss to our forces, I say well done. I do not rejoice in war or death. But I do like to read facts.

Putting my hand up here.
I don't miss the bloke.

Not a bad shot though too... That shot is a good return on investment for the hundreds upon thousands of dollars of military training the two chaps would have gone thru up to that point.
One shot sure beats an extended siege with the many lost military and civillian lives which would have surely been lost through other ways. We have gone past the 'excuse me, can you please stop' stage of this conflict.

comment deleted....on the grounds that life is too short.

Ok you can stop trolling now... I'm starting to see that not everyone understands my comments so I'll leave it at that.

That's a pretty rude and insulting comment mate.

All very well he got the record, but .50BMG is more than the previous long range shots that had records... The .50bmg round is like using a sledge hammer for a 4 inch nail...

.338 Lap Mag was the previous long range shot... .375 Cheytac also reached the same as the .338 lap mag...

This video is of an aussie that puts dents in steel panels, use to use 300 wm, but this is .375 cheytac... Not a .50 bmg...

4km Extreme Long Range rifle shot (4384 yards) 375 Cheytac Improved - YouTube


the ranges of shots should be seperated by calibre, lumped into the same basket makes it look a little one sided...