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To: archy
So ya missed an entire PLANET???

LOL!!!!!

163 posted on 11/04/2004 3:08:54 PM PST by Eaker ("He's the kind of guy who would fight a rattlesnake and give the snake a two-bite head start.")
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To: Eaker
So ya missed an entire PLANET???

LOL!!!!!

25 million miles away, so I needed a somewhat bigger bullet. Hmmm, one of these days I'll have to figure out what minute-of-angle on that one would have been.

From a standstill, a 6-foot-by-6-foot target 2000 meters off was pretty easy, one 3KM out was usually do-able. When we wanted to show off, we'd nail a pop bottle or a watermelon out at 800m. or so. The guys watching needed binoculars or spotting scopes to appreciate it.

192 posted on 11/04/2004 3:57:35 PM PST by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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