Posted on 06/16/2007 5:46:08 PM PDT by SolitaryMan
Read email before watching video
These are some examples of the fight in Afghanistan.. These video shots are not made through the shooter's telescopic sight... they are made looking through the spotter's scope. The spotter lies right next to the sniper and helps the sniper to find and home in on the target.
The sniper is using a 50 caliber rifle. A 50 cal. round is about 7-8 inches long and the casing is about an inch in diameter. The bullet itself is one-half inch in diameter and roughly one and one-half inches long.
Pay close attention to the beginning of the video. A Taliban is lying on top of the peak in front of you... when you hear the shot fired.... watch what happens. The sniper is also about a half mile away... or more.
A Canadian sniper in Afghanistan has been confirmed as hitting an enemy soldier at a range of 2,310 meters, the longest recorded and confirmed sniper shot in history. The previous record of 2,250 meters was set by US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam in 1967. The Canadian sniper was at an altitude of 8,500 feet and the target, across a valley, was at 9,000 feet. Canadian sniper units often operated in support of US infantry units, which were grateful for their help. The record lasted only one day, until a second Canadian sniper hit an enemy soldier at 2,400 meters (8000 feet).
The Canadian snipers fire special .50-calibre McMillan tactical rifles, which are bolt-action weapons with five-round magazines. The Canadian snipers were the only Canadian troops operating without hel mets or flak jackets as they had too much other equipment to carry. Each three-man team has one sniper rifle, three standard rifles (Canadian C7s), one of them with a 203mm grenade launcher.
WARNING!! Flying Body Parts!!! Sniper Video
Suddenly I feel better about the world in general.
The first one is still my favorite , because of the height it attained. I feel like I’m judging a leap in a figure skating competition.
That seems likely, the idea that it’s ‘rockchucks’-—in at least one of those hits, you can’t see the object at all, until it’s blown up FROM BEHIND. So the video was made in front, but the gunman was somewhere else altogether.
Thanks for the info. It didn't look like a sniper shot, but I didn't know what it was. Wild and strange and inexplicable...
Oh my God! Those grenades must have a 100 yard kill radius - and that is for the non-nuclear ones.
Seriously, I think they meant to say an M203 grenade launcher.
The only thing this video and Canadian snipers have in common is that both shoot animals. In this video’s case, four legged animals.
fake and several years old
that is a prairie poodle being shot...
funny how this stuff keeps recycling
The direct link to that “sniper” shot is http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/08/suicide_bomber_.html. As the webmaster of that site I feel obliged to point out the huge RETRACTION notice at the top of the post. It’s been there since less than 24 hours after I posted the picture.
She looks mighty horny....you can just tell sometimes ya know.
Yeah, she’s a live one all right. BTW, did you see the “Nashville whorehoses brought by illegal aliens” thread over on TOS? It was in the Tennessean.com yesterday, but FR won’t allow any postings from that site.
Breeder hips give it away everytime........
i heard about it....Mexican run....boites and casa de putas are part and parcel of modern culture south of the border in every nation....every one
Yep. I caught it just after I posted it. I remembered the picture and searched specifically for that one image. I found it on your site and posted it before I read your entire post. Sorry, I missed the retraction but acknowledged that fact at my post #31.
Do “family values” include turning out your daughters?
to me one of the more unusual customs there is that they view middle teen girls as acceptable sexually...much more so than do we
we haven’t really been like that since agrarian days and much shorter life spans
Huntin’ feral Afghanis !!
It don’t get better than this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG#Cartridge_dimensions
It’s a fake. Here are thedimensions of a 50 cal
I don’t doubt that it’s a “misidentified video” but... I’d like to see a still image of that third shot. That sure looks like an arm with hand attached flipping through the air.
Whoa, talk about a headache.........I had a similar one back in my twenties after a night of Southern Comfort........
But at least I woke up two days later.
bttt
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