New Sniper Record 2.2 Miles

[Sur-shot]

This is a new story about a Canadian JTF-2 member shooting a TAC-50 that just took out the trash at 2.1 miles. . Good shooting and a great spotter.
Ed

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/22...s-fighter.html

[dnepr]

As a Canadian I have always been proud and appreciative of our men and women in uniform. Just a little more so today!

[ghh3rd]

That was quite a shot - one minute of ISIS at 2.2 miles!

[Texas by God]

I hope his 72 virgins don't mind that half inch hole.....

[Scharfschuetze]

As a Canadian I have always been proud and appreciative of our men and women in uniform. Just a little more so today!

I've shot with CDF soldiers at a couple of different events over the years. They are always good shots and great soldiers.

[Buckshot]

I hope his 72 virgins don't mind that half inch hole.....

.............I thought it was 72 Virginians?

.............Buckshot

[woodbutcher]

More like sitting in Satan`s lap with a white hot coal up his tail pipe.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Good Cheer]

Snipers always makes me think of my grandfather and that makes me think of Robert Service.
So, here you go.
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/...-redcross7.htm

[sawinredneck]

Discussing this last night, I was asked what scope was used, I still don't honestly know! In researching that the 8-80x March was the highest magnification I could find, but I think you'd need more than that? Anyone have an idea?

[KenH]

I understand the Schmidt & Bender PM II Rifle Scope 34mm Tube 5-25x scope is fairly standard on the TEC-50 rifle with Canadians. That has an elevation adjustment of 22 MIL- is that 22 inches at 100 yds? and a windage adjustment of +- 6 MIL. The computer is handled by the spotter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_Tac-50

[sawinredneck]

Maybe it's me, but I know I couldn't pick a head sized target at 2 miles with just a 25x!

[KenH]

I doubt seriously he was picking a headshot - but the biggest part of body. Still an amazing shot. I wounder how many times out of 10 he could do that? Also wonder it he had a couple of trial shots that were so far off the target didn't even know he was being shot at before the final shot took care of business? Still, an AMAZING shot. Me - I find 1,000 yd shooting fun and amazing.

[Larry Gibson]

"That has an elevation adjustment of 22 MIL- is that 22 inches at 100 yds?"

No, 22 mil is closer to 79.2" at 100 yards.

Good Cheer

I used to shoot matches with the PPCLI (could be PPLCI?) in the northwest and also did some training with them at Fort Lewis. One of the Canadians, after a beer or two at the small "club" on North Fort, could recite that poem word for word.......thanks for the reminder of old good times.

Larry Gibson

[KenH]

Larry, is MIL something like "mm"? I didn't understand it, and the only way I could relate is MOA which would be 22" at 100 yds, you say it's 79.2" at 100 yds. How does MIL work?

[Larry Gibson]

Google milradian, you'll get info overload.......

Down and dirty it is this;

Milliradians (Mils) The mil dot reticle gets a lot of attention these days. “Mil” has nothing to do with “military.” It is an abbreviation for milliradian, 1/6400 of a degree in angular measure. That's 3.6 inches at 100 yards, or 3 feet at l,000 yards.

Larry Gibson

[Scharfschuetze]

Yep, Larry's spot on as usual.

A mil is 1/1000 of the distance if you want to think of it that way and thus the term "mil" for 1,000. E.g. one mil at 1,000 meters is 1 meter (39") or one mil at 1,000 yards is one yard or 36 inches or 1/1000th of the distance.

With the mil dot reticle, it is fairly easy to estimate the range to a target of known size. Before the advent of long range lazer range finders, the mil dot reticle was the primary method of ranging a target. In military sniper training, if you couldn't mil a target properly, you didn't graduate.

Some scopes and European match sights now have adjustments in mils. When a scope or aperture sights is adjustable to .1 mil, you can consider that click to be approximately 1/3 of an MOA. With a scope using a mil dot reticle and .1 mil adjustments, you don't have to convert from mils to MOA when holding off or adjusting the scope.

[KenH]

Thanks for the explanation of MIL - I had no clue

[waco]

Mils IMHO are much easier to work with when your turrets and reticle match. Glass clarity is MUCH more important than magnification. I shoot at a mile(1760 yards) with a Vortex Viper PST 6x24x50 which is by no means top end glass. I can very easily see milk jugs at this distance and clearly pick out sage brush bushes well beyond that.
I only use a 10x Leupold at 1000 yards.

[Scharfschuetze]

With most variable scopes using a mil dot reticle, you need to determine at which power the reticle reads true mils. Sometimes this is in the paper work that comes with the scope, but it's wise to confirm it with a range test using cardboard or other material cut to a known size and then milling it at a known range. Often the highest power of a variable scope will give too small a figure and a low power will give too high a figure.

Darrell Holland at Hollan's Gunsmithing sells variable scope sights that mil properly at any of the power settings.

https://hollandsgunsmithing.com/

[17nut]

1'st plane vs. 2'nd plane.

Ie. does the reticle follow magnification or not.
If not then it's true.