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Dilbert_X wrote:

The British do overload their 338s, not sure by how much.

I guess it depends a lot on exactly what happens to the bullet during the subsonic transition and after, subsonics can be made to shoot to 1,000 yds after all.

Last edited by rdx-fx (2010-05-09 22:44:11)

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Vilham wrote:

Wow, amazing shot, tbh if I was in the army I think sniping is something I would like to aim for, being able to hit targets that others can't is where my personal enjoyment comes in shooting, if I was shit at clay shooting I would have long since given up.

FatherTed wrote:

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

Novalogic games were utter shit and they only sold copies to armiemans like -Sh1tfy-

this post is wrong

DF:BHD was an incredible game

Uzique wrote:

-Sh1fty- wrote:

War Man wrote:

I don't plan on being a sniper as you have to have a shitload of patience which I don't have.

Not to mention you need to know better physics than somebody working at NASA

errr.

no.

rdx-fx wrote:

eleven bravo wrote:

i almost went to sniper school

I've the patience and attention to detail to be an MI geek, or an Engineer, or a designated marksman.
But not the eerie 'oh, I just spot things without thinking about it' that the snipers I've known have.

Yesterday, for example, driving down the highway at 75mph, past a field full of 30+ horses, one of the old snipers comes out with;
"Oh, there's a new colt in there"
He was the one driving.. we don't know the owners of that field.. he never appeared to look at the field other than out of the corner of his eye.. we were 40 miles and 55 miles from where we live, respectively.
He just notices things without seeming to have to work at it, or even think about it.

rdx-fx wrote:

War Man wrote:

I don't plan on being a sniper as you have to have a shitload of patience which I don't have.

-Sh1fty- wrote:

Not to mention you need to know better physics than somebody working at NASA

Trotskygrad wrote:

you need to calculate crap faster than the people at NASA, that's fo sho. Cause the pplz at NASA have supercomputers. Or accurately estimate better.

Patience is the preferred attribute.  For one of the snipers I know, he is not a patient man - but he is stubborn, grimly determined, and stoic.
(Think Hugo Stiglitz, from Inglorious Basterds) and that grim, quiet, violence-on-tap serves as a stand-in for patience.

Smart, knowledgeable, intuitive, eagle-eyed - are terms I'd use to describe the three snipers I know. 
None of them have taken any physics or math past high school, however. 
Their knowledge of exterior ballistics is superb, but it is a field/practical knowledge rather than a mathematical/physics based knowledge.

They are not NASA Scientists, they are field soldiers.  Experience, memory, training, and attention to detail are their primary tools. 
They don't do complex calculus equations in their head while shooting - they have someone else do that, write down all the useful answers, and memorize the table of answers. (trajectory tables, wind drift @ ranges, altitude corrections, sine angle corrections).

They could tell you how to read the wind by feel, or by sight.. They could tell you a few short algebra equations to mentally calculate certain important variables..  They could tell you how to be so damn sneaky in the woods that you surprise woodland creatures at touching range.. But their knowledge of interior ballistics is rather shallow.  To them, interior ballistics is summed up with "chamber a military issue match round, get proper positioning, and pull the trigger careful-like"

There are the Geek Ballisticians (the scientists of shooting), then there are the Snipers (the practical applications guys) - very rarely do you meet someone that is both.

Reciprocity wrote:

-Sh1fty- wrote:

At 2000m+ could he even see the guys in the scope?

well, if not, that would sorta make the shot impossible.

How high do you have to aim your guy? More like a low caliber mortar than a rifle

depending on unknown-to-us variables, the bullet is dropping at least 200 feet, probably somewhere between 250 and 300+ feet.  By the time the bullet gets to 2700 yards, it's coming down at a very steep angle and it's subsonic.  If their ranging was off by even 20 yards, they'd  be nearly 2 moa off target, which at 2700 yards is around 4.7 feet.