Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double kill-New Record

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A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than 1 miles away.

Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle.

“The first round hit a machinegunner in the stomach and killed him outright,” said Harrison, a Corporal of Horse. “He went straight down and didn’t move.

“The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too. They were both dead.”

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.

In a remarkable tour of duty, Harrison cheated death a few weeks later when a Taliban bullet pierced his helmet but was deflected away from his skull. He later broke both arms when his army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

Harrison was sent back to the UK for treatment, but insisted on returning to the front line after making a full recovery.

“I was lucky that my physical fitness levels were very high before my arms were fractured and after six weeks in plaster I was still in pretty good shape,” he said. “It hasn’t affected my ability as a sniper.”

Harrison, from Gloucestershire, was reunited in Britain with his wife Tanya and daughter Dani, 16, last month. Recalling his shooting prowess in Helmand province, he said: “It was just unlucky for the Taliban that conditions were so good and we could see them so clearly.”

Harrison and his colleagues were in open-topped Jackal 4x4 vehicles providing cover for an Afghan national army patrol south of Musa Qala in November last year. When the Afghan soldiers and Harrison’s troop commander came under enemy fire, the sniper, whose vehicle was further back on a ridge, trained his sights on a Taliban compound in the distance. His L115A3 long-range rifle, the army’s most powerful sniper weapon, is designed to be effective at up to 4,921ft and supposedly capable of only “harassing fire” beyond that range.

“We saw two insurgents running through its courtyard, one in a black dishdasha, one in green,” he said. “They came forward carrying a PKM machinegun, set it up and opened fire on the commander’s wagon.

“Conditions were perfect, no wind, mild weather, clear visibility. I rested the bipod of my weapon on a compound wall and aimed for the gunner firing the machinegun.

“The driver of my Jackal, Trooper Cliff O’Farrell, spotted for me, providing all the information needed for the shot, which was at the extreme range of the weapon.”

Harrison killed one machinegunner with his first attempt and felled the other with his next shot. He then let off a final round to knock the enemy weapon out of action.

Harrison discovered that he had set a new record only on his return to UK barracks nine days ago. The previous record was held by Corporal Rob Furlong, of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who was using a 12.7mm McMillan TAC-50 rifle.

Tom Irwin, a director of Accuracy International, the British manufacturer of the L115A3 rifle, said: “It is still fairly accurate beyond 4,921ft, but at that distance luck plays as much of a part as anything.”

News of Harrison’s success comes amid concern over a rival insurgent sharpshooter who in a five-month spree has killed up to seven British soldiers, including a sniper, in and around the Taliban stronghold of Sangin.

In a later incident during the tour, Harrison’s patrol vehicle was hit 36 times during a Taliban ambush. “One round hit my helmet behind the right ear and came out of the top,” he said. “Two more rounds went through the strap across my chest. We were all very, very lucky not to get hurt.”


If my math is correct thats 2,476 meters compared to Rob Furlongs 2,436.
 
AWESOME!!!

Really bloody well done!





A little disconcerting about the enemy sniper though, I hope they are actively out to get him.
 
I couldn't pull that off with a 40w railgun, much less a lead bullet that must drop about 2-3 lightyears over the course of that shot.
 
I couldn't pull that off with a 40w railgun, much less a lead bullet that must drop about 2-3 lightyears over the course of that shot.

I would be interested to know what the bullet drop is for that shot.

Anyone know?
 
Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison
 

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I would be interested to know what the bullet drop is for that shot.

Anyone know?

This is out at 2500 yds

Information from CYAN5DE @
http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=1640872

Tabular trajectory data at Std.ICAO Atmosphere
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Gun / Ammunition : .338 Lapua Mag.
Bullet : .338, 300, Sierra HPBT LR MatchK 9300
Bullet weight : 300 grains or 19.44 Grams
Muzzle velocity : 2759 fps
Crosswind speed : 10 Mph
Ballistic Coefficient(s) (G1):
C1=0.755@V>2300 fps;
C2=0.747@V>1800 fps;
C3=0.737@V>0 fps;

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Sight-in clicks, 1 click = 10.0 cm/100 m or 3.937 in/100 m
Height of sight above bore axis = 4.14 cm or 1.63 inch
Gun is zeroed-in at 100 yds, by sighting-in at level firing
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Range Velo Time of Energy Path Deflection Total Sight correction Target
city flight to at crosswind drop for setting new lead
LOS of 10.0 Mph zero range 3 fps
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·Yards fps s ft.lbs. in. in. MOA in. MILS MOA yds ·
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| 0 2759 0.0000 5070 -1.6 0.0 ----- 0.0 ------ ----- 0.00
X 100 2639 0.1117 4638 0.0 0.5 0.50 2.4 0.0 0.00 0.11
| 200 2522 0.2279 4236 -3.3 1.8 0.87 9.7 +0.5 +1.60 0.22
| 300 2408 0.3486 3861 -12.0 3.9 1.25 22.4 +1.1 +3.83 0.34
| 400 2297 0.4763 3513 -26.8 7.3 1.74 41.2 +1.9 +6.41 0.47
| 500 2187 0.6108 3187 -48.3 11.8 2.26 66.8 +2.7 +9.24 0.60
| 600 2081 0.7516 2884 -77.0 17.5 2.78 99.5 +3.6 +12.27 0.73
| 700 1977 0.8978 2605 -113.1 24.1 3.28 139.7 +4.5 +15.45 0.88
| 800 1876 1.0524 2345 -158.2 32.1 3.83 188.8 +5.5 +18.90 1.03
| 900 1780 1.2180 2110 -214.2 42.1 4.47 248.8 +6.6 +22.75 1.19
| 1000 1686 1.3934 1894 -281.7 53.9 5.14 320.3 +7.8 +26.92 1.36
| 1100 1596 1.5774 1697 -361.3 67.1 5.83 403.9 +9.1 +31.38 1.54
| 1200 1509 1.7692 1518 -453.2 81.7 6.50 499.9 +10.5 +36.08 1.73
| 1300 1428 1.9719 1359 -560.6 98.3 7.22 611.3 +12.0 +41.20 1.93
| 1400 1354 2.1887 1221 -687.3 117.3 8.00 741.9 +13.6 +46.89 2.14
| 1500 1285 2.4165 1099 -833.0 138.2 8.80 891.7 +15.4 +53.05 2.36
| 1600 1221 2.6555 994 -999.8 161.1 9.62 1062.5 +17.4 +59.68 2.59
| 1700 1166 2.9072 906 -1191.7 186.3 10.47 1258.4 +19.5 +66.95 2.84
| 1800 1118 3.1700 832 -1409.6 213.4 11.32 1480.4 +21.8 +74.79 3.10
| 1900 1077 3.4435 772 -1656.0 242.4 12.18 1730.8 +24.2 +83.23 3.36
| 2000 1041 3.7269 722 -1932.2 273.2 13.04 2011.0 +26.8 +92.25 3.64
| 2100 1010 4.0195 680 -2239.8 305.5 13.89 2322.7 +29.6 +101.84 3.93
| 2200 983 4.3199 644 -2578.7 339.3 14.73 2665.6 +32.6 +111.91 4.22
| 2300 958 4.6293 612 -2952.5 374.6 15.55 3043.3 +35.6 +122.54 4.52
| 2400 936 4.9472 583 -3361.9 411.4 16.37 3456.8 +38.9 +133.71 4.83
| 2500 915 5.2715 557 -3806.3 449.3 17.16 3905.2 +42.3 +145.31 5.15
 
3 Shots in a row at that range is....effin awsome. But after the first shot you had em dialed in right?
 
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