1.54 mile shot

**2dumb2kwit** · 05-03-2010, 02:17 PM

Actually, 2-1.54 mile shots. 2 kills.
Now that is long distance shooting.....in fact, it's the new record.

Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle.

The shooting — which took place while Harrison’s colleagues came under attack — was at such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to reach their target after leaving the barrel of the rifle at almost three times the speed of sound.

The distance to Harrison’s two targets was measured by a GPS system at 8,120ft, or 1.54 miles. The previous record for a sniper kill is 7,972ft, set by a Canadian soldier who shot dead an Al-Qaeda gunman in March 2002.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7113916.ece

**crashdive123** · 05-03-2010, 02:42 PM

Nice shooting.

**2dumb2kwit** · 05-03-2010, 02:48 PM

I hope everyone reads the whole story. This guy not only made two world record shots, to protect his people....he's been shot in the helmet, blown up, had both arms broken, and he just keeps healing up and going back to work.

Words can't describe the respect that I have for him, and people like him.