rnbra-shooter
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It will be interesting to see how the story pans out. Either way, I hope Harrison manages to get through whatever fame and notoriety that comes his way, I understand that fame was not kind to Furlong.
http://www.schmidtbender.com/PMspecs5_25x56LP.htm says that that particular scope (I'm not sure if that is the exact model used by the Brits or not) has "Elevation range: 0-26Mrad". I am not sure if they mean 0-26 mils relative to the scope's mechanical axis or if it is in fact +/- 13 mils relative to the scope's mechanical axis. (BTW the former would be _smart_, but I am not aware of any scope maker who actually does this!)
CV32 what is the source of your info that the L115A3 uses a 48MOA scope base? That number would make very good sense. With 93 MOA of adjustment in the scope, which would be nominally +/- 46.5 MOA around it's centre, adding 48 MOA to that in the base would give a nominal scope adjustment range of +1.5-94.5MOA relative to boreline. This would permit zeroing the rifle at 100 yards/metres within a few clicks of the mechanical bottom of the scope's elevation range.
Although it is possible to set up a scope such that at the lower limit of its mechanical adjustment range it is sighted in for some intermediate distance (perhaps in the 500m-600m neighbourhood), and this might even arguably be "OK" with a strictly long range sniper rifle, I would be surprised if they actually did this. Losing the inherent simplicity of being able to directly aim at a target at short ranges is something that I would think a sniper unit would ponder long and hard before giving up.
With our best guesses here it sounds like the shooter may have been short or "missing" some elevation, perhaps as much as 40-50 MOA. When the details of the Harrison's story finally emerge, I will be interested to know how it was that he held for elevation.
http://www.schmidtbender.com/PMspecs5_25x56LP.htm says that that particular scope (I'm not sure if that is the exact model used by the Brits or not) has "Elevation range: 0-26Mrad". I am not sure if they mean 0-26 mils relative to the scope's mechanical axis or if it is in fact +/- 13 mils relative to the scope's mechanical axis. (BTW the former would be _smart_, but I am not aware of any scope maker who actually does this!)
CV32 what is the source of your info that the L115A3 uses a 48MOA scope base? That number would make very good sense. With 93 MOA of adjustment in the scope, which would be nominally +/- 46.5 MOA around it's centre, adding 48 MOA to that in the base would give a nominal scope adjustment range of +1.5-94.5MOA relative to boreline. This would permit zeroing the rifle at 100 yards/metres within a few clicks of the mechanical bottom of the scope's elevation range.
Although it is possible to set up a scope such that at the lower limit of its mechanical adjustment range it is sighted in for some intermediate distance (perhaps in the 500m-600m neighbourhood), and this might even arguably be "OK" with a strictly long range sniper rifle, I would be surprised if they actually did this. Losing the inherent simplicity of being able to directly aim at a target at short ranges is something that I would think a sniper unit would ponder long and hard before giving up.
With our best guesses here it sounds like the shooter may have been short or "missing" some elevation, perhaps as much as 40-50 MOA. When the details of the Harrison's story finally emerge, I will be interested to know how it was that he held for elevation.
