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Old July 30th 05, 01:19 PM
Darrel Toepfer
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Skywise wrote:

Then I guess you think that the video of airliners hitting the
twin towers on a TV show is "hollyweird special effects" too?

Not everything on TV is bogus. Most is, but not all.


http://www.gagreport.com/bizarrenews...0Iraq.htm#news

They're shooting with 50 calibers...
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Old July 30th 05, 11:14 PM
Skywise
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Darrel Toepfer wrote in
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Skywise wrote:

Then I guess you think that the video of airliners hitting the
twin towers on a TV show is "hollyweird special effects" too?

Not everything on TV is bogus. Most is, but not all.


http://www.gagreport.com/bizarrenews...0sniper%20in%2
0Iraq.htm#news

They're shooting with 50 calibers...


Nice....one of those shots I couldn't even make out the target
until the body parts went flying.

I was reluctant to say it before as I have no references to
back it up, but seem to recall hearing somewhere that our
snipers routinely hit stuff over a mile away and the best
can get close to three miles.

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Old July 31st 05, 07:07 PM
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Skywise writes:
Nice....one of those shots I couldn't even make out the target
until the body parts went flying.

I was reluctant to say it before as I have no references to
back it up, but seem to recall hearing somewhere that our
snipers routinely hit stuff over a mile away and the best
can get close to three miles.


Probably there are many kills which do not get reported, but the last
time I heard the distance record for a "confirmed kill" was 2430m (=
1.5 miles), made by a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan:

http://www.riflebarrels.com/articles.../50sniping.htm
http://www.snipercountry.com/Article...2430Metres.asp

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