It's official...longest kill shot in history!

[Okla-homey]

:D The new record is 7971 feet by Canadian Corporal Rob Furlong of the Third Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment using a McMillan TAC-50 on a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2002. That's a mile and a half folks.

These things take time to get all certified and stuff, but zang! There is no way Muhamed even heard the shot that took his head off.:D

[reevie]

Is this a new definition for a Furlong?

[yermom]

in real terms, that's a little over a mile and a half :eek:

[Oldnslo]

thats, what... about a mile and a half?

[Hamhock]

could someone who has one of those measurement converters let us know how many miles 7971 feet is?

[John Kochtoston]

I'm really more worried about the distance in kilometres seeing as how they guy's Canadian and all. :D

[yermom]

2.4295608 kilometers

[John Kochtoston]

2.4295608 kilometers

Now, what is that in miles?:D

[Jerk]

Now where can I buy a McMillian TAC-50?

[usmc-sooner]

didn't LAS once hit the moon?

[Okieflyer]

I guess we have to break the record now! :D
Probably on an Iranian!

[VeeJay]

Now where can I buy a McMillian TAC-50?

I think you have a couple around your place already.

[1stTimeCaller]

is that about six laps around the track at the HS football field?

[soonerboomer93]

Now, what is that in miles?:D
7 971 feet = 1.509 659 091 mile

7 971 feet = 0.437 285 961 league [nautical]

7 971 feet = 2 657 yard

7 971 feet = 2 429.560 8 meter

[OU4LIFE]

yeah, but roughly how far was it?

[Okla-homey]

I wonder what our battalions & regiments would be called if we had the same system...
2nd battalion of the Doogie Houser Mess Kit Repair Regiment or
3rd Regimental Combat Team of the Beyonce Fusilers.

It's actually pretty smart. I served with those Patricia's and here's the dealio; the Brits (and by extension, many of the Canadians) ensure royal patronage for their regiments by naming them for some noble person -- or at least declaring some royal bigwig honorary "colonel".

While HRH Princess Patricia lived (she was one of Queen Victoria's daughters) she always made sure those guys had good gear, vittles and plenty of liquor in the officers mess and lots of beer for the men because they were "her" regiment.

[BigRedJed]

could someone who has one of those measurement converters let us know how many miles 7971 feet is?
Actually, YOU have a measurement converter. It's called Google. One of the things a lot of people don't know about Google is that it has a pretty neat calculator feature. Just type in the informaton you want to have converted, hit search, and whammo!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=7971+feet+to+miles

[OU4LIFE]

so how many yards is that?

[Ike]

Im having a hard time getting a feel for that...can you give it to me in parsecs? light seconds?

[jk the sooner fan]

didn't LAS once hit the moon?

with an M1 no less...

[C&CDean]

pfffft. He didn't just hit the moon, he hit it dead-center.

And for anyone whose ever done long-distance shooting, this is damn near unbelievable. About the only place you're gonna have a mile-and-a-half open shot is in the desert. Or across a big-assed ravine or something. And do you know how small Habib looks from that far? Damn near invisible to the naked eye. Maybe a spek, smaller than a fly, on the horizon.

I've shot prairie dogs from about 500 yards with my .22-250, and you can't even see them without big-time optics. This is 5-times that distance. ****ing wow.

[KABOOKIE]

In 1967, Carlos Hathcock USMC set a record for the longest combat kill with a Browning M2 .50 BMG machine gun mounting a telescopic sight. The distance was 2,286 meters (2,500 yards) or 1.42 miles. Hathcock was one of several individuals to utilize the Browning M2 machine gun in the sniping role. This success has led to the adoption of the .50 BMG cartridge as a viable anti-personnel and anti-equipment sniper round.

The record stood until 2002, when it was broken during Operation Anaconda by a Canadian three-man sniper team led by Master Corporal Graham Ragsdale from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI). The new record was set by Corporal Rob Furlong with a shot of 2,430 meters (2,657 yards) from a McMillan TAC-50 Long-Range Sniper Weapon on a Taliban fighter.

Carlos is still the f'ing man.

[yermom]

I've shot prairie dogs from about 500 yards with my .22-250, and you can't even see them without big-time optics. This is 5-times that distance. ****ing wow.

well, i'm sure he had some optics...

[C&CDean]

well, i'm sure he had some optics...

Ya think?

[Okla-homey]

well, i'm sure he had some optics...

and a spotter. But's still incredible.

[Hamhock]

any estimate of the time it takes the bullet to travel 1.5 miles?

i mean, i bet you can fire...one mississippi...two mississippi....dead.

[Okla-homey]

any estimate of the time it takes the bullet to travel 1.5 miles?

i mean, i bet you can fire...one mississippi...two mississippi....dead.

the .50 BMG round leaves the muzzle at about 2900fps. So you're correct.;)

[OU4LIFE]

This seems like a good place to mention that Bob Lee Swagger is coming soon to a movie theater near you.

Bob the Nailer. **** YEAH!

[Hatfield]

i wonder if the bullett was travelling at 55 mph to generate 88 gigawatts of power for the flux capacitor

[Hamhock]

i wonder if they let the soldier send the dude to the taxidermist and put him on his wall, with some sort of plaque?

[Okla-homey]

i wonder if they let the soldier send the dude to the taxidermist and put him on his wall, with some sort of plaque?

Oh, that would be so suh-weet! And knowing Canadians, they would hang it in the NCO club.;)

Of course, if it was a headshot, nothing left to mount after a .50 impacts the noggin.

[C&CDean]

the .50 BMG round leaves the muzzle at about 2900fps. So you're correct.;)

Leaves the muzzle at that velocity. It's rapidly slowing down as it progresses downrange. So you could probably get out a "take that you murdering ****" if you talk real fast.

You know another thing about these .50 cal rounds, all you need to do is hit body. Hit mohammed in the shoulder and he's shoulder/armless and will most likely bleed to death or die from shock.

I was reading some stuff on Pat Tillman, and he was hit by .50 cal rounds. Literally dismembered him. Bad news.

[yermom]

i wonder if the bullett was travelling at 88 mph to generate 1.21 gigawatts of power for the flux capacitor

fixed that for you ;)

[KABOOKIE]

At +7,000 feet a .50 cal BMG is probably traveling just under the speed of sound ~1100fps at sea level. The Haj probably had enough time to hear a high pitched whizzing sound before it popped his chest open.

[KABOOKIE]

fixed that for you ;)


I'm glad someone else saw that gross error in movie science!

[Okla-homey]

Leaves the muzzle at that velocity. It's rapidly slowing down as it progresses downrange. So you could probably get out a "take that you murdering ****" if you talk real fast.

You know another thing about these .50 cal rounds, all you need to do is hit body. Hit mohammed in the shoulder and he's shoulder/armless and will most likely bleed to death or die from shock.

I was reading some stuff on Pat Tillman, and he was hit by .50 cal rounds. Literally dismembered him. Bad news.

So, important lesson for Achmed. Always keep moving. If you run around all the time and never stay in one place more than three seconds, a Canadian corporal will find it difficult to kill you from a mile and a half out. ;)

[Hatfield]

i wonder if they let the soldier send the dude to the taxidermist and put him on his wall, with some sort of plaque?

as much as taxidermy costs you would think they would at least brush the dude's teeth for proper display

[Hamhock]

as much as taxidermy costs you would think they would at least brush the dude's teeth for proper display


the beauty of taxidermy is to reflect the creature just as they were before they were harvested.;)

[Penguin]

Do you want to know what a McMillan TAC-50 can do to a human body?


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5820322807673807576&q=50cal

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

The description says it was filmed in Iraq, but it was actually filmed in Afghanistan.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Daaaaaaaaaayum.

[KABOOKIE]

Do you want to know what a McMillan TAC-50 can do to a human body?


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5820322807673807576&q=50cal

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

The description says it was filmed in Iraq, but it was actually filmed in Afghanistan.


Those are prairie dogs he's shooting at.

[achiro]

I guess we have to break the record now! :D

I'm betting we already have, just can't talk about it.:D

[sanantoniosooner]

Before you guys get all excited about this you should know that I had an aunt in Oklahoma that took out a deadbeat uncle in California with voodoo.

I don't know how many yards that is, but it's a lot.

[Penguin]

Those are prairie dogs he's shooting at.

That's weird. I just call them ragheads.

[Turd_Ferguson]

I thought it was against the Geneva convention to shoot a human with a .50 cal. Guess I thought wrong. Maybe it's just a no-no to shoot'm with a .50 machine gun?

TF