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To: Slam
...and from what I understand there was some mighty fine shooting involved...

Indeed, if he's the one who made the shot described on this thread.

9 posted on 04/25/2002 11:46:10 AM PDT by general_re
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To: general_re
1700 metres...yup, not bad, not bad at all.

Uh, come to think of it, rather good.

Quite.

14 posted on 04/25/2002 11:56:26 AM PDT by Slam
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To: general_re
When he hit his first target, an enemy gunman at a distance of 1,700 metres, he said all that ran through his mind was locating his next target.

"All I thought of was Sept. 11th and all those people who didn't have a chance and the American reporter who was taken hostage, murdered and his wife getting the videotape of the execution; that is my justification."

A master corporal from Ontario, the lead sniper of his three-man team, said when they first landed in the combat zone "our spider senses were tingling.... It was night and we didn't know what to expect."

By daylight, after coming under enemy machine-gun fire, he managed to ease his rifle barrel between two rocks and quickly located an enemy sniper hiding behind a small piece of corrugated steel between two trees. He guessed the distance at 1,700 metres and fired one shot through the metal, killing the man instantly.

He said afterward he remembered thinking: "That's one less bullet that's gonna be coming at us, one less person we have to think about."

During the next four days of fighting, the Newfoundland corporal set what is believed to be a record for a long-distance shot under combat conditions, hitting an enemy gunman at a distance of 2,430 metres. "

45 posted on 04/25/2002 1:08:23 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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