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  • new 'long distance kill' recorded by sniper.

    a British Army sniper has recorded the 'furthest kill' ever at a distance of 1.54 miles using his new L115 sniper rifle.



    taken from the Telegraph:

    "A British Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than 1.5 miles away.

    Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle.

    “The first round hit a machinegunner in the stomach and killed him outright,” said Harrison, a Corporal of Horse. “He went straight down and didn’t move.

    “The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too. They were both dead.”

    The shooting — which took place while Harrison’s colleagues came under attack — was at such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to reach their target after leaving the barrel of the rifle at almost three times the speed of sound.

    The distance to Harrison’s two targets was measured by a GPS system at 8,120ft, or 1.54 miles. The previous record for a sniper kill is 7,972ft, set by a Canadian soldier who shot dead an Al-Qaeda gunman in March 2002."

    the full article can be seen here:

    www - new Sniper record set.

    good shooting!
    RGJ

    ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

    The Rifles

  • #2
    Excellent, but his name should have been witheld.
    I was just watching Rob Furlong the Canadian sniper on youtube yesterday, he held the record for sniping at just over 1.5 miles he used a mcmillen rifle but he changed the ammo.

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    • #3
      Good shooting from CoH Harrison - I suppose that those fancy GPS/laser rangefinder gadgets are quite handy for this sort of thing, not as much reliance on guesstimation of the range to the target.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by rod and serpent View Post
        Excellent, but his name should have been witheld.
        I was just watching Rob Furlong the Canadian sniper on youtube yesterday, he held the record for sniping at just over 1.5 miles he used a mcmillen rifle but he changed the ammo.
        What calibre was he using?

        .338 lapua has a bullet drop of 600 inches at 1700m

        Harrison must have been using the thing like a mortar!
        "The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"

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        • #5
          Tabular trajectory data at Std.ICAO Atmosphere
          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Gun / Ammunition : .338 Lapua Mag.
          Bullet : .338, 300, Sierra HPBT LR MatchK 9300
          Bullet weight : 300 grains or 19.44 Grams
          Muzzle velocity : 2759 fps
          Crosswind speed : 10 Mph
          Ballistic Coefficient(s) (G1):
          C1=0.755@V>2300 fps;
          C2=0.747@V>1800 fps;
          C3=0.737@V>0 fps;

          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Sight-in clicks, 1 click = 10.0 cm/100 m or 3.937 in/100 m
          Height of sight above bore axis = 4.14 cm or 1.63 inch
          Gun is zeroed-in at 100 yds, by sighting-in at level firing
          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Range Velo Time of Energy Path Deflection Total Sight correction Target
          city flight to at crosswind drop for setting new lead
          LOS of 10.0 Mph zero range 3 fps
          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          ·Yards fps s ft.lbs. in. in. MOA in. MILS MOA yds ·
          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          | 2300 958 4.6293 612 -2952.5 374.6 15.55 3043.3 +35.6 +122.54 4.52
          | 2400 936 4.9472 583 -3361.9 411.4 16.37 3456.8 +38.9 +133.71 4.83
          | 2500 915 5.2715 557 -3806.3 449.3 17.16 3905.2 +42.3 +145.31
          "The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"

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          • #6
            8.59mm?

            Is that the same as the Anti Materiel round used by the ARW?

            They'll be looking for an extension to the ranges so....


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #7
              Former Canadian Forces Sniper Rob Furlong discusses his world record shot of 2,430m in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 2002 and his subsequent treat...

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              • #8
                Fair play, good shooting. Sucks to be Terry Taliban that day!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by SwiftandSure View Post
                  Sucks to be Terry Taliban that day!
                  Hehh... f**k'em !!

                  Good job on the part of that Sniper det
                  "On the plains of hesitation, bleach the bones of countless millions, who on the very dawn of victory, laid down to rest, and in resting died.

                  Never give up!!"

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by SwiftandSure View Post
                    Fair play, good shooting. Sucks to be Terry Taliban that day!
                    A .338 will ruin anyones day!
                    "The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jungle View Post
                      Hehh... f**k'em !!
                      I dunno what you Canadians get up to on Ops, but what goes on tour.....

                      Only messing.

                      It must be reassuring for the lads in the convoys to know that they have such good sniper support.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by ZULU View Post
                        3905.2
                        That's nearly 100m of drop at 2469m distance.....Works out at about 41 mils of tangent elevation, for the gunners out there.

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                        • #13
                          Some more information:


                          In a remarkable tour of duty, Harrison cheated death a few weeks later when a Taliban bullet pierced his helmet but was deflected away from his skull. He later broke both arms when his army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

                          Harrison was sent back to the UK for treatment, but insisted on returning to the front line after making a full recovery.

                          “I was lucky that my physical fitness levels were very high before my arms were fractured and after six weeks in plaster I was still in pretty good shape,” he said. “It hasn’t affected my ability as a sniper.”

                          Harrison, from Gloucestershire, was reunited in Britain with his wife Tanya and daughter Dani, 16, last month. Recalling his shooting prowess in Helmand province, he said: “It was just unlucky for the Taliban that conditions were so good and we could see them so clearly.”

                          Harrison and his colleagues were in open-topped Jackal 4x4 vehicles providing cover for an Afghan national army patrol south of Musa Qala in November last year. When the Afghan soldiers and Harrison’s troop commander came under enemy fire, the sniper, whose vehicle was further back on a ridge, trained his sights on a Taliban compound in the distance. His L115A3 long-range rifle, the army’s most powerful sniper weapon, is designed to be effective at up to 4,921ft and supposedly capable of only “harassing fire” beyond that range.

                          “We saw two insurgents running through its courtyard, one in a black dishdasha, one in green,” he said. “They came forward carrying a PKM machinegun, set it up and opened fire on the commander’s wagon.

                          “Conditions were perfect, no wind, mild weather, clear visibility. I rested the bipod of my weapon on a compound wall and aimed for the gunner firing the machinegun.

                          “The driver of my Jackal, Trooper Cliff O’Farrell, spotted for me, providing all the information needed for the shot, which was at the extreme range of the weapon.”

                          Harrison killed one machinegunner with his first attempt and felled the other with his next shot. He then let off a final round to knock the enemy weapon out of action.

                          Harrison discovered that he had set a new record only on his return to UK barracks nine days ago. The previous record was held by Corporal Rob Furlong, of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who was using a 12.7mm McMillan TAC-50 rifle.

                          Tom Irwin, a director of Accuracy International, the British manufacturer of the L115A3 rifle, said: “It is still fairly accurate beyond 4,921ft, but at that distance luck plays as much of a part as anything.”

                          News of Harrison’s success comes amid concern over a rival insurgent sharpshooter who in a five-month spree has killed up to seven British soldiers, including a sniper, in and around the Taliban stronghold of Sangin.

                          In a later incident during the tour, Harrison’s patrol vehicle was hit 36 times during a Taliban ambush. “One round hit my helmet behind the right ear and came out of the top,” he said. “Two more rounds went through the strap across my chest. We were all very, very lucky not to get hurt.”

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                            8.59mm?

                            Is that the same as the Anti Materiel round used by the ARW?

                            They'll be looking for an extension to the ranges so....

                            .338 inches = 8.5852 millimeters Rangers have the .338 and the .5.

                            .338 becoming the new standard sniper round for a lot of armies.

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                            • #15
                              Did he carve two notches on the butt of his rifle.
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