CPL Craig Harrison Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison, a British Army sniper, now holds the record for the farthest shot (1.5 miles), which took down two Taliban gunmenn in Afghanistan
Posted on 05/03/2010 12:49:16 PM PDT by KeyLargo
British sniper Craig Harrison (The Silent Assassin) breaks record, kills target from 1.5 miles away
By Michael Sheridan DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, May 3rd 2010, 1:28 PM Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison, a British Army sniper, now holds the record for the farthest shot (1.5 miles), which took down two Taliban gunmenn in Afghanistan. CPL Craig Harrison Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison, a British Army sniper, now holds the record for the farthest shot (1.5 miles), which took down two Taliban gunmenn in Afghanistan. Related News
A British soldier dubbed the Silent Assassin has broken a distance record after taking down two targets from a mile and a half away.
Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison, a British Army sniper, killed two Taliban machine gunners in Afghanistan from a distance of 8,120 feet, Sky News reported.
"The first round hit a machine gunner in the stomach and killed him outright. He went straight down and didn't move," the 35-year-old said of the incident, which took place in November 2009.
"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."...
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CPL Craig Harrison Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison, a British Army sniper, now holds the record for the farthest shot (1.5 miles), which took down two Taliban gunmenn in Afghanistan
Good for him.
But STUPID of Sky News to publish so many details about him.
Had to be .338 Lapua.
Faster and flatter than the anti-material .50 cals.
They were dead before they could hear the report.
Nice job.
Anybody have a photo of the British built rifle?
This was featured on Mail Call a couple of months ago.
That is pretty good to kill your target from 1.5 miles ! As mentioned by someone else, they should have kept the details on the soldier under wraps.
Nope.
“Harrison was nearly 3,000 feet beyond the effective range of his British-built L115A3 Long Range Rifle.”
aced it
Picture in this thread, sarasota - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505346/posts
Nice shooting!....They didn’t even have time to say “What the ......!”
VIDEO:
http://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?i=Rnd4bjlhcWuRpR1Jqckk&the-british-made-l115a3-long-range-rifle=
...making him and his family targets of the islam cult.
Tribal arm tats. Shame.
Otherwise, he’s the man.
.338 Lapua is the cartridge, not the rifle.
This guy’s lucky he’s not in the US Army. Taking down two talibanis without first reading them their Miranda rights would get him procecuted by the pukes at the Obama crime family
Surprising that he can be such a great soldier with all that ink in his skin. /s
This story is all over the web.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7113916.ece
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