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British Sniper Shoots Dead Two Taliban Fighters... From More Than 1.5 Miles Away
DailyMail (UK) ^
| May 02nd 2010
Posted on 05/02/2010 9:40:06 AM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:40:06 AM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
I bet this sniper looks just like Mark Harmon and is called “Gibbs”! Good shooting!
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:41:49 AM PDT
by
blu
(I will no longer tolerate Catholic bashing. The truth, yes, the bashing, no.)
To: Steelfish
How can he possible read them their rights from that distance before he executes them?
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:42:09 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
To: Steelfish
Makes my poor little .308 look kind of impotent.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:42:12 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Steelfish
That’s so awesome. Stuff like this has to make the bad guys nervous.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:42:38 AM PDT
by
yooling
( FUBO)
To: Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Hey Taliban: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:43:33 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Steelfish
Talk about a sharp shooter...that’s amazing!!!
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:44:40 AM PDT
by
MsLady
(If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:44:53 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Steelfish
It is wonderful to celebrate our heroes. But damn, don’t post a picture and his name in the paper.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:44:54 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Capitalism = billions raised from poverty, Socialism = billions reduced to starvation)
To: Steelfish
One thing you DO NOT DO while still at war is publish a snipers name!
They have put a bulls-eye on this soldier.
Unconscionable.
To: Steelfish
He He....when I Googled that gun....the first picture I clicked on turned out to be a a link to a 2008 Free Republic thread.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:48:15 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: Steelfish
‘A third shot clipped the weapon as I hoped to render it unserviceable.’
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:48:16 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Capitalism = billions raised from poverty, Socialism = billions reduced to starvation)
To: Steelfish
8.59mm Is that the .338 Lapua? Looks to be so.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:49:42 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
To: Steelfish
1 shot one kill, Gunny Hathcock would be proud.
May God protect all our men and women that serve in uniform over there regardless of their country of origin.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:50:00 AM PDT
by
verga
(I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
To: Steelfish
Why am I not buying this? And Jessica Lynch shot it out and killed 15 Iraqi soldiers, too.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:50:11 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Steelfish
The Daily Mail is erroneously referring to him as ‘Cpl’ or ‘Corporal’ in actual fact, he is ‘CoH’ or ‘Corporal of Horse’ which is the equivalent of a Sergeant. The Household Cavalry doesn’t have Sergeants because the word ‘Sergeant’ is etymologically descended from a word meaning ‘servant’ and the people who have historically joined the Cavalry regiments have been far too posh to accept being called a servant....
To: Steelfish
We hunted in Canada with a guide who had a long range rifle. He named it Mileamor because he could hit a deer a mile or more away. We saw him demonstrate it but he only hit a coyote and it was a tad less than a mile away.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:51:09 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: sinsofsolarempirefan
"...he is CoH or Corporal of Horse which is the equivalent of a Sergeant."
And we have a President who is the equivalent of an 'ass of horse.'
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:55:15 AM PDT
by
verity
(Obama Lies - Obongo must go!)
To: Steelfish
I personally prefer the good old-fashioned low-tech sniper for effectiveness and psychological value, but I wonder how long it will be before robotic technology enters the sniper's world.
For example tiny drones, invisible to the eye at a distance, that move down field to calculate wind velocity and feed data back into a computer which either tells the sniper what adjustments to make or makes them automatically.
Or bullet-sized missiles that are precisely directed to target by powerful computer-based telescopes.
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posted on
05/02/2010 9:57:56 AM PDT
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Vera Baker-- Secret Service code for a preemptive defense against imminent 'himbo' eruptions!)
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