New sniper record

[Dragon]

ewwwwwwwww  338 lapua runs shivers up and down my spine!

I was watching top sniper rifles last week on Military Channel.  Lots of info on that bullet and the guns built to use it.  Yeah, that bullet is one mean SOB.

WTG on the shots.

[jdbecks]

wonder how many crates he had to get, for being on sky news

[saggs]

The "almost 3 seconds" time of flight in the article sounds like the reporter is just dividing the distance by the muzzle velocity.  There's a little more to it than that unless he was shooting in a vacuum.  The article also makes it sound like the bullet only dropped 6 feet.

Maybe the Brits have some kind of anti-gravity tech in there bullets they aren't telling us about. 

 

[BowHTR]

the shot was taken in November of 2009 in Afghanistan.

[007Rusty]

    

[BowHTR]

where does SKYNEWS get there info. some of there info seems misleading.

[morfiend]

Pyro,you realize now some poor Canuk boy will have to get the record back!

 Thats an awesome shot and not that I'd want to be anywhere near there it would be sort of cool to see a target drop then several seconds later here the report of the weapon.

   

[jdbecks]

where does SKYNEWS get there info. some of there info seems misleading.

Was in a News paper today also, I read the paper at my parents house and when i got home to check the bbs Pyro had posted the story up also. Contained all the same facts and figures..so not sure where they got it, unless the daily mail is owned by sky.

[Shuffler]

Wow.... Very nice.


I can hear the convo now.... how ard you doeeng.... I am.... oh my gooness... hajeeb your head exploded.  

[jdbecks]

Wow.... Very nice.


I can hear the convo now.... how ard you doeeng.... I am.... oh my gooness... hajeeb your head exploded.  

 

[LLogann]

I've never picked you for a vet/cop Pyro...........  But you make some interesting points.....

The "almost 3 seconds" time of flight in the article sounds like the reporter is just dividing the distance by the muzzle velocity.  There's a little more to it than that unless he was shooting in a vacuum.  The article also makes it sound like the bullet only dropped 6 feet.

To the rest of you.........  Let's do trivia.............

Slope of the Earth is fixed to 90 degrees, no wind.  2 snipers, 1 holding a bullet, 1 holding a Kate.  Kate fires and bullet drops out of hand at the same time.........................  Which hits the ground first?

[Vulcan]

I've never picked you for a vet/cop Pyro...........  But you make some interesting points.....

To the rest of you.........  Let's do trivia.............

Slope of the Earth is fixed to 90 degrees, no wind.  2 snipers, 1 holding a bullet, 1 holding a Kate.  Kate fires and bullet drops out of hand at the same time.........................  Which hits the ground first?

Depends on the range you fired at, and the height of the drop.

[Nitro185]

yeah baby.

British sniper with a British made weapon.  I'm feeling very patriotic right now.
And the sniper in question is from my home town.

 Looks Forward to Swoop's  " Dedication babe" for this week......  Gonna be a  "Killer"    Huh  Swoop....?     

[saggs]

I've never picked you for a vet/cop Pyro...........  But you make some interesting points.....


To the rest of you.........  Let's do trivia.............

Slope of the Earth is fixed to 90 degrees, no wind.  2 snipers, 1 holding a bullet, 1 holding a Kate.  Kate fires and bullet drops out of hand at the same time.........................  Which hits the ground first?

Assuming the rifle muzzle and the dropped bullet are at the same height, and that the rifle's trajectory is perfectly parallel to the earth, and that the earth is flat not round, they would hit the ground at exactly the same time.  

I thought that Isaac Newton figured this out hundreds of years ago.  

In real life the dropped bullet would hit first though, due to the curvature of the earth giving the fired bullet slightly further to fall.

[Vulcan]

Assuming the rifle muzzle and the dropped bullet are at the same height, and that the rifle's trajectory is perfectly parallel to the earth, and that the earth is flat not round,  They would hit the ground at exactly the same time.

In real life the dropped bullet would hit first though, due to the curvature of the earth giving the fired bullet slightly further to fall.

Wrong common mistake though.

You assume the bullet flies perfectly through it's trajectory.