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Sorry, gotta agree with you. I just can’t see how you hit three guys, at the same time, at night in a boat that has low visiblity perspective(portholes for windshield) and the thing is bobbing.

With the waves, the wash from the propellers and each human responding differently to motion, there is no way to time the shot.

That is what you do when shooting at targets. You time where there are and where they will be when your shot strikes.

There are too many unpredictables for this outcome as the press is reporting.

I mean I am an excellent shot and have shot at moving objects, but Lee Harvey Oswald could not do what three men did.

If they did, fine and kudos. I just don’t see it.

I read on another post something about a gyro shooting platform? Okay, like they are probably very expensive and take up vital real estate on a ship.

All in all this whole scenario is possible, I suppose but to my minds eye just not probable.

The shooters should be on an Olympic team if they can do that.

.....this is purely speculation and bits from the story but.....

..... 2 guys with heads sticking out hatches = 2nd and 3rd shots, to be keyed on by success of primary.....

.....guy with gun at Capitan = primary.....

.....primary asks if 2nd and 3rd are ready to "send it" ?.....

.....primary then advises to "send it" on my shot.....

.....have been told this is a VERY standard practice which is practiced quite often with up to 5 secondary targets.....

Actually, if the boat was under tow, and the seas were not all that choppy, the act of towing makes the target boat more stable than it would be just bobbing free.

I don't seriously think the Navy is going to release full operational details of the shoot, do you? So of course the press doesn't have the full story.

As for gyro stabilized platforms; when was the last time you were at any state of the art "fun park" Disney has been making such things for decades, and I don't see them taking up a lot of real estate. Whether they exist and were deployed, I don't know, but you gotta figure, part of a SEAL's marksmanship training and practice is done on water. They're SEAL's after all and "S" stands for Sea. Long ago Marines used to shoot at waterborne targets while standing in rigging on a much more unstable platform than a modern naval vessel, with flintlocks. It's not like it is a new science.

I suspect they could shoot in the Olympics if they were available, but unlike Army guys, the SEALS are probably busy that day ;)

I mean I am an excellent shot and have shot at moving objects, but Lee Harvey Oswald could not do what three men did.

I think some of the reporting has been a little sloppy. But consider, simultaneous need not mean within a millisecond. A few tenths or even a second, would probably be "good enough for government work". The shooters covering pirates two and three would take their cue from the guy shooting the one with the AK pointing at the master of the Alabama. The range was only around 100 feet. That means the time of flight is on the order of 1/250th of a second. When the first guy goes down, especially if was a head shot, the others are momentarily frozen, on the order of 1/2 to 1 1/2 seconds maybe. More than enough time for the other two snipers to sync in on their targets.