British sniper hits two Taliban twats from 1.5 miles away

[~~whimsy~~]

A British sniper set a world sharpshooting record by taking out two Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan from more than a mile and a half away -- a distance so great, experts say the terrorists wouldn't have even heard the shots.

Craig Harrison killed the two insurgents from an astounding distance of 8,120 feet -- or 1.54 miles -- in Helmand Province last November firing an Accuracy International L11583 long-range rifle.

"The first round hit a machine-gunner in the stomach and killed him outright," said Harrison, a corporal of horse in the British Army's Household Cavalry, the equivalent of a sergeant in the American military.

"The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too," Harrison told the Sunday Times of London.

The shots -- measured via GPS -- surpassed the previous record held by Canadian Army Cpl. Rob Furlong, who killed an al Qaeda gunman from 7,972 feet in 2002.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/sniper_kills_qaeda_from_mi_away_sTm0xFUmJNal3HgWlmEgRL

Hell yeah! Two less to have to deal with. At least they went out in a bad ass way! So we can glorify this bad ass shooting skill!

 

[jod0565]

Nice shooting.

 

[Legzman]

fuckin lame. Shoulda been head shots.

however from that distance you have to take the rotation of the earth into account.

 

[Ulysses31]

Yeah read about this. Story released conveniently before it was announced that 3 more British soldiers had been killed yesterday and Sunday (2nd-3rd May). Public here aint so fickle and can see through all this bullshit government propaganda that wants to fool us into thinking we're 'winning' in Afghanistan.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

We can win it if people would lose the sensitivity bullshit and let us just fucking kill and wipe out these terrorist parasites. Then let the moderate Muslims go back to their woman hating, beheading, whiplashing culture of peace.

 

[Peter Gazinya]

Nice shooting. A sniper was once asked "What do you feel when you kill one of your enemies that never even saw it coming?"

Answer: "Recoil".

 

[Trident1]

Very nice squaddie!

Ok Libertards start your cryin'.

 

[eddyb]

nice shooting

 

[L3ggy]

All I have to say is: Pff

 

[pornophile]

I think he was probably aiming at their heads, but due to gravity the rounds hit lower. A bit closer and they would have burst their fucking skulls clean off their fucking shoulders.

 

[pitmaster]

Hell yeah! Two less to have to deal with. At least they went out in a bad ass way! So we can glorify this bad ass shooting skill!

Hell yeah! two less goat herders to worry about. I long for the day when everyone who ever dared to herd goats is dead and buried. You want to herd goats, herd em' in hell.

 

[bustybbwlover]

good god! i want a accuracy international l11583 long-range rifle....of course even with that i wouldn't be able to make that shot
an article about the rifle: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1982011/posts

 

[naldo]

i once dropped a paper bag that i shit in from the 22nd floor of the sheraton hoten in manhatten on some fucks below for a direct splatter hit. i was 22 floors up and i still vomited.

 

[calpoon]

That's cool, I guess. You have to be kind of a pussy to shoot a guy from a mile away, but I guess it's better than just dropping a bomb on him. I'd be more impressed if he killed the guy with his bare hands.

Actually, I'd be most impressed if he killed a bear with his bare hands instead.

Another pussy that fails to impress me.

I'd tell him that to his face, and then go get a Coke while he sat down and did his calculations so that he could shoot me.

 

[LukeEl]

Shit I thought this was an article had something to do with Sharpe's Rifles coming out of retirement.

 

[Red Spyder]

:sing: heeeeey, maaaan, nice shot!! :sing:

 

[BlueBalls]

The stomach and the side .... that's not very impressive now is it?

Head shots motherfucker of get the fuck out!

 

[sualcalay]

All I have to say is: Pff

same here.

 

[saschaxx]

Hopefully one of them sharpshootes writes the name of Osama Bin Bullshit on the surface of a bullet !
I just wont + cant understand why da bastard is still alive.
Nice shot ! :hatsoff::hatsoff:

 

[D-rock]

Most people that get shot don't hear the shots until they get hit considering the overwhelming majority rounds travel at faster than the speed of sound. (At least our of the muzzle. Surprisingly the distance the bullet had to travel it probably took a couple of seconds to get there and allowed the sound to catch back up.)

I do have to wonder about the second target he took out. If he moved right after the first person was shot him getting hit was almost due to complete dumb ass luck, or the shooter being psychic considering the length of time it took the second bullet to reach it's target and the difficulty of even lining up a second shot at that distance. (Not to mention almost no gun is that accurate anyhow even if the shooter had God-like shooting ability. I've known about people hitting smaller targets further out so it's not impossible, but even considering they were some of the best shots in the world, knew almost everything about the physics of shooting, were intimately familiar with their rifles, and had the best rifles constructed for them it still usually took multiple shots to do it while the target was still, and even they would admit it was as much luck as it was skill at that distance.) It makes me wonder if a lot of this is made up or exaggerated.