[TheForge] coffee and guns OT OT OT

[marc3rd at marc3rd.com]

Did anyone hear about a Canadian that set the record for offing someone at 
like 2400 meters?

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From: "James Binnion" <jbin at well.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] coffee and guns OT OT OT


>
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:45 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>>
>> As for training, I would say that most of the world'd best long  distance 
>> shooters were probably NOT trained by the military.  I'm  just guessing.
>
>
> My studio assistant is a very talented rifle marksman, he competes at  600 
> and even occasionally at 1000 yards with iron sights. It takes a  highly 
> skilled marksman to shoot accurately at those ranges and most  but not all 
> of them are current or ex military or LEO's.
>
> Unless you are training regularly you will not be able to hit a man  sized 
> object at long ranges (500 yards or more) no matter how fancy  the scope 
> or rifle, just too many variables. Especially in combat type  setting 
> where you have not had the luxury of sighting in the scope/ rifle on a 
> range at a specific distance.
>
>
> James Binnion
> jbin at well.com
>
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