
It's easy when you're on a known distance range and the weather is cooperating. I bet no more than maybe one could do it with 42 other cars running nose to tail, two feet off their door at 190 mph.įor $800 you can go down to Academi in Moyock NC and they'll have you hitting a man size target at 1,000 yards with in two or three days. The 1.7 mile shot is doable since the bullet drop is only 333 ft, the speed is still respectable at 950 ft per sec and only 5.5 seconds to the target.Īs an example, many of the members with a few weeks of training could drive a Nascar Grand National race car at 190 mph at Daytona or Talladegga. That is a lot different than a military sniper and his spotter estimating the range and figuring out all the environmental variables on a mountain in Afghanistan. I saw that video and that gun was set up for that one shot. I'm with you Charlie this is a propaganda piece to mess with someones head.

At around 2000 yards the bullet would enter subsonic conditions and the accuracy would fall off quickly as the speed bled off the farther the bullet traveled past that point. The bullet at 3828 yards would still be lethal at 790 ft per second. The bullet would drop roughly the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris from the muzzle to the target and take 9.4 seconds to get there. All those factors must be figured into the equation before you squeezed the trigger. There isn't a scope and base combination that would let you adjust your 1/4 click MOA scope up 300 clicks or 1000 ft above your target even at 3828 yards out.Įven under perfect conditions, no wind, perfect weather, no effect from the earths rotation, direction of the shot N,S,E,W, altitude, temperature, bullet rotation, figured into the equation. You would have a point of aim 12,000 inches (1,000 ft) above the target and bullet rotation would be push the bullet about 19 inches to the right. So I would put the maximum effective range that you could hit a target (Man) at the most 2000 meters, and past that point it would be incredible skill or dumb luck.ģ500 meter (3828 yards) is an almost impossible shot. For accuracy you must hit the target while the bullet stays above supersonic. I agree something not kosher about that story.

First of all can you see a man size target even with a 25 power scope at two miles?

Smart of course-the lie is as effective as actually doing itģ500 meters is MI Abrams Tank range not sniper rifle range even if he was using a fifty caliber. Sabot won't release as cleanly with smaller diameters You need s 5000 fps MV and a dense-uranium tungsten spikeīut sabot rounds in smaller-.5 INCH calibers aren't as consistent as they are in Bigger diameter cannons Just not possible to make such a shot-with just 3-4 ranging shots(dirty barrel-hotter barrel-all changing MV)ħ second time of flight is just too much time for gravity and wind to act on it So an extra 1/10 of second-means it would drop another 5 meters-16 feet. Velocity might be as low as 700 fps then. So a 10 fps low Muzzle velocity-over 7 seconds-70 feet short of target The downward velocity at target point might be about 50-70m/s Pretty sure this is just disinformation to scare ISISĪll the BS about computer calculations blah blah-ġ)they DON'T know actual muzzle velocity-it would always be a range-perhaps 10 fps either directionĢ)Same story on the various winds-no way of getting an extremely EXACT numberĪnd my quick calculations indicate-at 7 second flight

That is unlikely-maybe 7 seconds-500m/s average with muzzle velocity 850m/s maybe Some articles claimed shot traveled for 10 seconds Claim a canadian sniper made a 2.2 MILE 3500 meter shot?
