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Subject: Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill
clarkey188    2/18/2004 3:56:11 AM
Is there a record for the furthest sniper kill.
I'm a keen rough/target rifle shooter and was reading in one of my magazines about a new .338 rifle (I think it was .338)
They were saying it has the record for the furthest kill and it was by a Canadian in Afghanistan at a distance of over 1mile.
Is this true can anyone verify this. I cannot remember wich one it was in and have been trying to find it again.If so that's some shooting considering the distance/weather/light, wind and everything that can have an effect on the accuracy of the shot.
 
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Worcester    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/18/2004 3:16:32 PM
I do recall seeing two of your Royal Marines scoring a simultaneous double kill at 850m in Iraq in windy conditions; thought that was damn good, but 1 mile?!!! Most snipers have moved from 7.62mm to .338; some of our marines and I believe some of your guys have moved from the Accuracy International 7.62mm to the A.I. .338 because it holds velocity above 1500 fps well beyond 600m and is effective nominally to 1100m. The Lapua .338 is also pretty good and there are various .50 Lapuas et als. Are you sure it wasn't a .50 hit? 1800m sounds like a stretch even for .338
 
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Sierra175    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/18/2004 4:13:28 PM
Hey guys, I heard about the Canadian sniper teams in Afghanistan and I beilive their longest recorded kill was with with issued .50 cal..The US teams in Iraq got a 2095yrd in Al Samawarra(sp?) Iraq with the M82A1 Barrett .50 cal..I've spoken personally with the shooter of that fantastic shot and am pleased to inform that he was rotated back stateside about 3 wks ago..Hopefully his replacements there will have the same luck. On a side note, if you are able to, send our boys cleaning supplies for their weapons..I was sending "care"packages to the unit responsible for the above mentioned record shot, and they were "GREATLY" appreciated, so adopt a unit so to speak..Sierra
 
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Kozzy    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/18/2004 9:11:20 PM
I heard that a Canadian sniper killed a terrorist from over 1 mile with a Barret
 
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TDHM    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/20/2004 6:43:44 AM
"I believe some of your guys have moved from the Accuracy International 7.62mm to the A.I. .338 because it holds velocity above 1500 fps well beyond 600m and is effective nominally to 1100m. " The L96 is staying as the mainstay sniper rifle of the British Armed forces. The A.I. AW in .338 Lapua is being issued to Infantry Platoons to give them a Designated Marksman capability. "Are you sure it wasn't a .50 hit? 1800m sounds like a stretch even for .338 " Cant tell you what distance the hit was, but it was by a Canadian NCO in Afghanistan using a .50 Macmillan.
 
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Worcester    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/20/2004 4:32:33 PM
Issued to platoons, not to the sniper platoon? I was looking at the Commando 21 Reorganization for the Royal Marines who have some of the snipers delegated from HQ Company/Intel to their 2 Stand-Off Companies (not the 2 Close Action Companies) and they implied they were completely ditching 7.62 for .338 ; better rifle and you don't want to carry around two types of ammo. (No. the 7.62 link for GPMG is not the same quality as the 7.62 match grade for snipers.) I guess the army will stay mixed - probably have too many 7.62 to replace quickly. But snipers at platoon level? Why?
 
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TDHM    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/21/2004 2:32:48 AM
" better rifle and you don't want to carry around two types of ammo. (No. the 7.62 link for GPMG is not the same quality as the 7.62 match grade for snipers.) I guess the army will stay mixed - probably have too many 7.62 to replace quickly. But snipers at platoon level? Why" Its as I said. The British Army is not going to use the .338 as a the main sniper rifle. It is being issued to Infnatry Platoons on a 1 each basis to provide each Platoon with a Designated Marksmen capability. The Marksmen will not be snipers, but will enable a Platoon to accurately hit a target with a single shot with greater hitting power than anything currently in the Inventory. The .338 Lapua as it stands, is a very long and heavy rifle. For a sniper rifle its alot harder to conceal and carry about than the excellent L96. The L96 is more than adequate for the job at hand for normal snipers (Head shot at 800m, Harrassing fire out to 1200m). Anti-Materiale is not a British Army Snipers job. Nor will it ever be IMO. Whilst some snipers will doubtless carry the AI .338 in some instances, the mainstay of both the US and UK Armed Forces Sniper rifles are thier 7.62 counterparts, despite lacking the power of their larger cousins.
 
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Cydonius    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   2/21/2004 7:13:41 AM
I've been looking around some websites, including an article from SOF magazine and the distance was 2430 metres, a chest shot to the driver of a Taliban truck (a search engine such as google will turn up that article)
 
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bunglefoot    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill -website   2/23/2004 5:29:49 PM
Here you go link
 
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canada    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   6/5/2004 5:11:39 PM
it was by a canadian i think alot of sniper records are by canadians
 
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Ehran    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   6/5/2004 6:56:25 PM
The canadian army has a very good sniper program for two reasons. as military specialities go it's relatively cheap to do and it's very handy in peacekeeping operations to be able to precisely remove problems.
 
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Brock    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   6/23/2004 3:43:59 AM
There was a special in Soldier of Fortune Magazine about the longest ranged confirmed kill by a sniper det of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI). Canada's sniper's are really amazing. The training program is pretty intense. All sniper's generally are corporals roughly the equivalent of a US Army Sergeant, qualified basic radio operators (a 4 week course), qualified basic recce patrollers (a 7 week course), and then of course the 9 week basic sniper course. Normally, in a mechanized battalion the sniper will also be qualified drivers, both wheeled support and light armoured, and LAV gunner qualified. The great thing about Canadian infantry is that we really are jacks of all trades. it has pluses, but it also has our soldiers spread a little thin at times. In addition, all snipers are pretty guaranteed to have consistently shot the Canadian Army's infantry Personal Weapons Test (PWT) as expert marksmen before even being considered as snipers. We have pretty high standards, but in the Canadian Army there are actually only several dozen snipers--not a lot when you really think about it given the high demand for snipers.
 
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spongewrench       12/4/2006 11:44:41 AM
Longest recorded and confirmed kill (with a .50 cal McMillian), was by a Canadian (while in Afganistan) in the summer of 2002, 2400 meters (8,000 feet).
 
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doggtag       12/4/2006 1:49:39 PM
(wow! talk about resurrecting old threads...!)
 
Posted this up elsewhere on here some time ago,
Ronnie Barrett's new .416 cartridge:
 
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Specifications
 
- Case Capacity
200 grains of powder
- Projectile
Solid brass boattail spitzer
- Projectile Weight
400 grains
- Projectile Length
2.0 in.
- Ballistic Coefficient
.943
- Cartridge OAL
4.58 in.
- Muzzle Velocity
3250 fps (supersonic past 2500 yds.)
- Accuracy
Under 1 MOA
- Barrel Length Choices
32 or 29 in. (81.28 or 73.66 cm)
- Rifle Lengths
50 or 45 in. (127 or 114 cm)
- Weights
25 or 23 lbs. (11 or 10.43 kg)

 
What I find interesting about the projectile is the supersonic past 2500 yds part.
That raises some considerable distance-shooting possibilities.
Biggest problem is though: being .416, that sets it in its own caliber class, away from either 7.62 or 12.7mm military ammo that's mass produced and readily procured.
But then again, .338 is in the same boat, as is the lesser-known CheyTac .408 (Cheyenne Tactical).
 
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Nasty German Idiot       12/7/2006 7:00:59 AM
Before 2002 it was Carlos Hathcock ...  killed Vietnamese with an Browning M2 with mounted telescope at a distance of 2,286 meters. (1,42 miles)

That would have been my first guess.

 
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Nightowl22    Longest kill   8/9/2009 3:03:21 PM
The longest kill is by an American at 2,395 yards with a .50cal.   The Afghanistan longest kill with A UK made .50 caliber is being clamed by a Scott newspaper
 
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And that was a Taliban leader!!
 
 
 
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