[Slings and Arrows]

WARNING: Strong language.

[Slings and Arrows]

Yep, Hathcock's in there.

[EEGator]

Those are all crazy shots.

[fr_freak]

Ha ha ha! I checked out your link, then went to another link and found an article that quotes FreeRepublic and calls us a bunch of women haters:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html

[volunbeer]

The Barrett rifle is amazing. Thanks for sharing that!

[vetvetdoug]

Just read, American Sniper, by Chris Kyle. I'm surprised Obama hasn't posted a bounty on his head.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Another real good thread there, also with strong language - title included...

5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pu(dd)y (cat)

http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html

[Okieshooter]

“when you’re trying to shoot from far away with any kind of wind, you have almost no goddamned idea where the bullet will end up”

I have always said that to make those really long shots you must have the wind gods on you side. You may know what the wind is at your loction at any given moment, but what is happening beetwen you and the target? Sometimes you can see heat wave to give a clue, but in a shifting gusting wind all bets are off.

My longest shot on game was an antelope at 970 yds and it was a 5 mph wind only 30 degrees off my nose. The wind shifted or died between me and the target as I squeezed the trigger an although I hit him it was a foot off and only wounded him. Fortunately the wind came back and my second shot was right on target a he dropped his head. He was dead but did not know it so I followed with a third that was right on and he went down. I really prefer making good clean humane kills when hunting.

[Vinnie]

Here's the shot that intrigues me.

June 27, 1874, Adobe Walls, Tex.

The outpost was laid siege by Indians(native Americans) Several buffalo hunters are killed. BTW Bat Masterson was there.
Then ..
At the behest of one of the hunters, Billy Dixon, already renowned as a crack shot, took aim with a 'Big Fifty' Sharps (it was either a .50-70 or -90, probably the latter) he'd borrowed from Hanrahan, and cleanly dropped a warrior from atop his horse. This apparently so discouraged the Indians they decamped and gave up the fight. Two weeks later a team of US Army surveyors, under the command of Nelson A. Miles, measured the distance of the shot: 1,538 yards, or nine-tenths of a mile. For the rest of his life, Billy Dixon never claimed the shot was anything other than a lucky one; his memoirs do not devote even a full paragraph to 'the shot'.[1]

I've got the site in my GPS and one day drive out there. Over a thousand miles though.

[US Navy Vet]

http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3678