2430 Metre Shot made by Canadian

shazam* said:
I just assumed that there was a .50 cal cartridge beside the plaque but not in the pic...
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I thought that at first, then I wasn't sure, I think when I was there something else made it seem like it wasn't actually the same rifle. There is a .50 cal cartridge in the picture if you look beside the bolt. It would have helped if they lined the plaque up with the cartridge or something to make it obvious that they were refering to it.

All that to say, I dunno. :D
 
I seem to remember reading in an article that the snipers in the team that made that shot had agreed between themselves not to specify which one of them was actually behind the rifle when the shot was taken. If this is indeed the case, I'd applaud their recognition of the fact that they were indeed functioning as a team to make the shot.
 
That is the right rifle. It was one the last things I did before I left the CF was get that rifle to the museum. It was going to be refurbished and rebuilt. A number of people went out on a limb to get that rifle into the museum. It is a piece of history and has a rightful place as part of our heritage. The rifle in the museum is correct in the colour, trust me.

A lot of people speculating on things based on their last stay at a holiday inn express.

Cheers

Jeff
 
RePete said:
FWIW there is an article written in Maclean's magazine dated 15 May 2006, titled 'We were abandonded"
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Great article, shows how well the Liberals supported our troops. :rolleyes:

On the rifle, there are other pics. of it floating around on one of the big US sniper sights and it was either green or black and standing up in the display, maybe it has been painted since and the display clearly changed.
 
I also seem to remember reading that the newspaper article is wrong, and that it was actually one of the others that made the shot... The team was reluctant to say who made the shot, but the real person's name did eventually come out. I'm pretty sure it was in that book "Friendly Fire", but I could be wrong.

I have to admit that the shot took skill, but I think that bragging about (not so much by the shooters themselves) or celebrating the taking of a human life is wrong. I wouldn't lose sleep over it, or deny that it had to be done, but celebrating something like this just seems kind of ignorant to me. It says a lot about the culture we live in.
 
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Is this particular rifle exhibit new? I was there last spring and didn't see it, either way I'll look for it next trip up to the Capital.
 
I wonder what's so special about the US ammo (lots of .50 BMG shooters out there wondering about the same thing I'm sure). I'm also curious about what made such a stink about the event ... I've heard various stories from current and former CF members, the most common one has to do with a questionable picture.
 
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Meanwhile.....over at AR15.Com :cool:


Seems the yanks are doing a bit of shooting of there own :D There's no link to anything official, just this fellas story


General » General Discussion » TEAM member SnakeaterM24's 1.3 mile shot - UPDATE 01/29 medal recommendation is in - pg 9 (Page 1)
Posted :: 1/16/2008 11:50:39 AM MST



Originally Posted By GR8TWYT:
Recently, while deployed in Naray, Afghanistan at a very remote FOB (Forward Operating Base) with the 173rd Airborne, 1-91st Airborne Cavalry "Hatchet" Recon Platoon,

TEAM Member 'SnakeaterM24' took out a Taliban target he and his spotter had been stalking from 2100 meters away! That's 1.3 miles!!! [/size=2]
He did it in true Army sniper fashion, 1 shot - 1 kill with his Barrett .50 & Leupold scope.

Some of you may have read about Nick and his fellow platoon members on my "91st Cav Snipers" thread in TEAM, where a multitude of VERY generous ARFCOM members have been busy making sure these men have whatever they need to succeed in the remote mountain FOB they presently call home
(no roads, everything in & out by helo, water from a nearby stream, living in tents and fighting almost constantly).

The men of the 1-91st Recon Platoon have started to refer to us as "Ranstad's Militia" as Nick has become the man to see if anything is needed from the States, he let's us know and we always deliver.

His father is RetMAC, also a TEAM member (he was my Master at Arms Chief and we served in the Persian Gulf together in '88 'squabbling' with the Iranians) and is a VERY proud papa. Here's a link to the 1-91st Thread in Team, loaded with pics, as well as the tragedies and triumphs the Platoon has faced so far:

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=75&t=593882&page=75&#-1

I should also mention that this may end up being the US Army record for kill shots in Afghanistan. The Canadians have a 2430-meter shot (took 3 shots for the kill though) [;)] Also to be commended is Nicks Spotter SPC Simpson who is a hell of a sniper in his own right! [;D]

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ETA: More info on the shot from RetMAC:

Originally Posted By RetMAC:

Little background on the shot.

When the bad guys were seen, our sniper and spotter sighted in on the first target but before the shot could be taken, the bad guy walked behind a huge rock. Nick and Simpson immediately switched over to the second target and Nick took him out with the shot we've all been talking about. They switched back to try and get the original target, but the bad guy stayed behind the rock after seeing the other go down.

SOOOO Nick started shooting the rock!!

Why you ask?

Because they had Apache air support and the pilot could see Nick's rounds impacting the rock - and used that to target and unload Hellfire's - which of course turned the rock into little pebbles, mixed with bad guy 'fertilizer' ....

Wondering if Ronnie Barrett ever envisioned his rifle being used as a targeting device for air support...

Never underestimate the ingenuity of our American soldiers !!
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TEAM Member 'SnakeaterM24' took out a Taliban target he and his spotter had been stalking from 2100 meters away! That's 1.3 miles!!!

He did it in true Army sniper fashion, 1 shot - 1 kill with his Barrett .50 & Leupold scope.
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Either he's one lucky bastard, that was born with a lucky horseshoe AND a four-leaf clover up his arse, to actually connect with his first shot at that distance under field conditions, or more likely, the writer of this story is full of $hit.
 
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