Saturday, May 15, 2010
"Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double kill"
I guess we have to believe this.
I'm sure there's no "instant replay"...
I'm sure there's no "instant replay"...
Michael Smith reports at the U.K. TimesOnLine:
"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."
