Posted on 03/31/2014 3:00:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
British sniper in Afghanistan kills six Taliban with one bullet
Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards hit trigger switch of suicide bomber whose device then exploded, Telegraph learns
By Holly Watt, Sterga 2, Helmand province, Afghanistan
10:15PM BST 31 Mar 2014
A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Telegraph has learnt.
The 20-year-old marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target from 930 yards (850 metres) away, killing the suicide bomber and five others around him caught in the blast.
The incident in Kakaran in southern Afghanistan happened in December but has only now been disclosed as Britain moves towards the withdrawal of all combat soldiers by the end of the year.
Lt Col Richard Slack, commanding officer of 9/12 Royal Lancers, said the unnamed sharpshooter prevented a major attack by the Taliban, as a second suicide vest packed with 20kg (44lbs) of explosives was found nearby.
The same sniper, with his first shot on the tour of duty, killed a Taliban machine-gunner from 1,465 yards (1,340m).
Several hundred British and Afghan soldiers were carrying out an operation in December when they were engaged in a gun battle with 15 to 20 insurgents.
“The guy was wearing a vest. He was identified by the sniper moving down a tree line and coming up over a ditch,” said Lt Col Slack. “He had a shawl on. It rose up and the sniper saw he had a machine gun.
“They were in contact and he was moving to a firing position. The sniper engaged him and the guy exploded. There was a pause on the radio and the sniper said.....
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Just WOW!
I want this guy’s name so that when he comes to Denver I can buy him, his girl, and his family a BIG steak diner. Bravo!!!
The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) is giving away two Savage Lapua for their March drawing. You still have a couple of hours to enter. No membership or donation needed.
I’m not a member, but I get their (sometimes irritating) emails.
Make that Dinner I can’t afford the diner.
My wildcat is made from the 5.6 X 50R Magnum case necked up to 6.5MM. They are not the easiest case to acquire, as it is a European round, but the 223 case diameter does very well in the older Contender frames regarding case head thrust against the breech face.
The 6.5 JDJ Contender round was based on a necked up 225 Win. case. It has a slight rim as it is the .473 diameter case head of the 30’06 family of cases. Rimmed cases are best in the break open guns.
I knew a guy who would chamber a barrel for you utilizing his developed process using Electrical discharge machining techniques similar to the Magna Port process. All you had to do was give him a barrel and a dummy cartridge you made. No chambering reamers were used.
5.56mm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_International_AWM#British_Armed_Forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_%26_Bender
I used to have a fairly good assortment of TC Contender barrels tho only two frames. The barrels were all standard calibers.
I pretty much permanently kept a .22 mag barrel on one of them and it caused me to lose our gun club’s all comers match.
I was leading in points with the next to last event being shooting steel chickens at 100 yards. For some reason, they were not scoring on knocking them over but just for hits. After each round some guy would spray paint them to cover any hits.
Since a hit was all that was required, I decided to use the .22 mag. A few minutes before I was to shoot, the scope fell off. I should have just used my .357 model 27 but foolishly put the scope back on and tightened it down hoping it had held it’s zero. Well it hadn’t and I missed them all. I ended up losing the match by a single point.
Yeah, you have to be attentive to the scope mounts on pistols.
For the heavier calibers I’ll go with a modified 6-screw Weaver rail with up to 4 rings on a straight bull barrel. Never had any trouble.
Pistols are far harder on scopes than rifles are. Usually the scope will slide forward in the rings due to inertia and recoil if they are not secure. I usually put some Avery label strips inside the rings. I have this setup on my 444 Marlin, 358 Bellm Contender barrels.
I think I’m a few years beyond their recruiting age, and I don’t believe they give out scopes as induction bonuses either.
Get ready to buck up big. Scopes by Schmidt & Bender, Nightforce and others start at $2K and go up from there to “you gotta be kidding”.
I have never been a real fan of scopes on pistols or revolvers. They tend to make them really bulky and the cross hairs seem to make sighting errors really dance around.
Oddly enough, I don’t even like them all that well on high powered rifles, preferring a Redfield or Lyman receiver sight with a sourdough front.
Now I do like scopes on .22 rimfire rifles as long as they are small and high quality. Redfield used to make a dussy. It had a 3/4 inch barrel but with fairly large bells. Really small but bright, strong and good optics.
Something odd is a high power spring air rifle will destroy a scope faster than any thing especially if it is a magnum.
And his mom.
Yeah, the only pistols I have them on are the single-shots. The Contender is an ideal handloader’s experimentation platform. I hunt from tree stands mostly so a rest is nearby for scope use.
The spring air guns need special scopes resistant to the front to back straight line inertia of the gun mechanism.
Jolly good and Allahu fubar!
Big time
There is a total of 75 videos on this subject.
Odungo is pissed....once he hears about this he’ll change the ROE so that all snipers must use common binoculars with
the kmart brand label (since walmart is on his personal s**t list).....
LOL
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