Sniper hits ISIS Commander from 1.5 miles

[skeathley]

This may not be new, but it just came to me from another source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -away.html

Terrorist literally blown apart by long distance .50 cal bullet.

[puma guy]

This may not be new, but it just came to me from another source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -away.html

Terrorist literally blown apart by long distance .50 cal bullet.

The most amazing part is the shot was made with a Browning .50 Cal machingun with a "special" sight!

[Pawpaw]

Ma Deuce will get the job done!

[bblhd672]

I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

[The Annoyed Man]

I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

Carlos Hethcock sniped a VC commander in Vietnam with an M2 with an optical sight mounted on it. The distance was something like 1700 yards.

[powerboatr]

either way 1.5 miles.....Wholly cow batman. that is an incredible shot and lots of just right wind and luck.
but overall its freaking awesome

[Jusme]

I wonder how many of his troops decided, there are easier ways to make a living, after he suddenly exploded in front of them? From that distance you would probably never hear the shot.

[MaduroBU]

I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

Carlos Hethcock sniped a VC commander in Vietnam with an M2 with an optical sight mounted on it. The distance was something like 1700 yards.

I believe that GSgt. Hathcock held a patent on that scope mount.

[Charles L. Cotton]

I wonder how many of his troops decided, there are easier ways to make a living, after he suddenly exploded in front of them? From that distance you would probably never hear the shot.

Somewhat like Quannah Parker when Billy Dixon shot Parker's medicine man off of his horse at about a mile away. (BTW, he was using a 50-90 Sharps.)

Chas.

[The Annoyed Man]

I wonder how many of his troops decided, there are easier ways to make a living, after he suddenly exploded in front of them? From that distance you would probably never hear the shot.

Somewhat like Quannah Parker when Billy Dixon shot Parker's medicine man off of his horse at about a mile away. (BTW, he was using a 50-90 Sharps.)

Chas.

I just watched “Quigley Down Under” a couple of days ago. I hadn’t seen it in a while. His rifle was a .45-110-450. As the owner of a very recently acquired .45-70 Marlin who has only put 5 rounds downrange so far with it, I absolutely cringe at the thought of firing a .50-90 or a .45-110. The men who shot those kinds of rifles were much better men than I’ll ever be.

[jmorris]

I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning?wprov=sfla1
M2 as a sniper rifle
USMC M2 fitted with a Leupold CQBSS variable power scope.
The M2 machine gun has also been used as a long-range sniper rifle, when equipped with a telescopic sight. Soldiers during the Korean War used scoped M2s in the role of a sniper rifle, but the practice was most notably used by US Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War. Using an Unertl telescopic sight and a mounting bracket of his own design, Hathcock could quickly convert the M2 into a sniper rifle, using the traversing-and-elevating (T&E) mechanism attached to the tripod. When firing semi-automatically, Hathcock hit man-size targets beyond 1,800 metres (2,000 yd)—twice the range of a standard-caliber sniper rifle of the time (a .30-06 Winchester Model 70). Hathcock set the record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,250 metres (2,460 yd), a record which stood until 2002, when it was broken in Afghanistan by Canadian Army sniper Arron Perry.[62][63]

[bblhd672]

I think the reporter got a lot of facts wrong. Perhaps a .50 cal sniper rifle was used, but not a .50 cal machine gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning?wprov=sfla1
M2 as a sniper rifle
USMC M2 fitted with a Leupold CQBSS variable power scope.
The M2 machine gun has also been used as a long-range sniper rifle, when equipped with a telescopic sight. Soldiers during the Korean War used scoped M2s in the role of a sniper rifle, but the practice was most notably used by US Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War. Using an Unertl telescopic sight and a mounting bracket of his own design, Hathcock could quickly convert the M2 into a sniper rifle, using the traversing-and-elevating (T&E) mechanism attached to the tripod. When firing semi-automatically, Hathcock hit man-size targets beyond 1,800 metres (2,000 yd)—twice the range of a standard-caliber sniper rifle of the time (a .30-06 Winchester Model 70). Hathcock set the record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,250 metres (2,460 yd), a record which stood until 2002, when it was broken in Afghanistan by Canadian Army sniper Arron Perry.[62][63]

Obviously I don’t know what I’m talking about! Just seemed odd to me with the wide range of sniper rifles in use that a M2 would be used.
I don’t really care what they use to take down ISIS soldiers just get ‘er done!

[philip964]

Seemed pretty serious it was a machine gun.

[Deltaboy]

Now that is reaching out and touching someone!