you already get killed at 1500 yards with the .50 cal with a set of 3 ..... imagine 9 of them ...
Gotta ask, with the number of times you've mentioned it... How often has this happened to you? Were you dead six on the guy flying straight at him, or something along those lines? The way you talk it sounds like an everyday occurrence.
I got tagged by 999 at 1.5k once, and I was high and at his 3 o'clock. Knocked my aileron off. I went elsewhere. Once, in years of buff hunting.
Wiley.