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[Richie London]

and a great target to get the record. 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/sniper_kills_qaeda_from_mi_away_sTm0xFUmJNal3HgWlmEgRL?sms_ss=facebook

[Richie London]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

[tunnie]

Good stuff 

[Mr Skrunts]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

Well they they reckon a bullet travels faster than the speed of sound, which is 768 mph.  That expert should have said that all victims of modern weapons never heard the shot that killed them

[KW]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

2.64 seconds assuming a constant muzzle velocity, probably nearer 3 seconds in real life as the bullet would be slowing down during it's course.
Either way the insurgents wouldn't have been aware it was coming, and it's a foooooooking impressive piece of marksmanship by anybody's standards.

[Banjax]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

drop a ball from shoulder height - how long it takes to hit the ground is how long a bullet fired horizontally at shoulder height would take to hit the ground, so to answer your question we need to know the snipers altitude at the time and the velocity of the bullet, plus at that distance you need to think of the curvature of the earth as well 


my physics teacher at school explained this to me in the 80's - it was a sniper and a monkey hanging from a branch - the bullet was fired straight between the monkeys eyes and the monkey let go of the branch at the precise time the shot was fired - as both the bullet and the monkey fall at the same rate, the monkey still gets it between the eyes 

no monkeys were harmed during the expirement 

[Richie London]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

Well they they reckon a bullet travels faster than the speed of sound, which is 768 mph.  That expert should have said that all victims of modern weapons never heard the shot that killed them

A 7.62 NATO round fired at optimum tragectory will travel about 4 miles.

lets hope they keep breaking that record 

[Richie London]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

2.64 seconds assuming a constant muzzle velocity, probably nearer 3 seconds in real life as the bullet would be slowing down during it's course.
Either way the insurgents wouldn't have been aware it was coming, and it's a foooooooking impressive piece of marksmanship by anybody's standards.

anything past 10 feet starts to blur now for me so the sights would have to be the hubble telescope to get a good image on my rifle 

[Banjax]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

2.64 seconds assuming a constant muzzle velocity, probably nearer 3 seconds in real life as the bullet would be slowing down during it's course.
Either way the insurgents wouldn't have been aware it was coming, and it's a foooooooking impressive piece of marksmanship by anybody's standards.

anything past 10 feet starts to blur now for me so the sights would have to be the hubble telescope to get a good image on my rifle 

[Banjax]

theres a scene in "the hurt locker" where he takes out some insurgents from what looks like a couple of miles - i thought it was poetic licence - obviously not

[Richie London]

i did hear years ago that david gower the cricketer had eyesight of that only 1 in 5 million people have. i guess a snipers eyes must be the same sort of thing then

[PhilRich]

how long would the bullet travel before it hit his target. ?

2.64 seconds assuming a constant muzzle velocity, probably nearer 3 seconds in real life as the bullet would be slowing down during it's course.
Either way the insurgents wouldn't have been aware it was coming, and it's a foooooooking impressive piece of marksmanship by anybody's standards.

would have to be the hubble telescope to get a good image on my rifle  [/anything past 10 feet starts to blur now for me so the sights quote]





We're in the same boat mate  , can you fit sniper sights to a white stick? 

[LaserLance]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270414/British-sniper-sets-new-sharpshooting-record-1-54-mile-double-Taliban-kill.html I know its from banjax's favourite paper

[tunnie]

its not only good eye, its taking into account surroundings, weather, wind speed and such, would all alter trajectory of a bullet over that distance

[cem_devecioglu]

media making a big mistake..those people are in active job.. when faces become known they can be victims any time..