Seth wrote:piscator wrote:Seth wrote:piscator wrote:Animavore wrote:I had a feeling that part referred to above was bullshit. TooTrigger Warning!!!1! :Enemy at the Gates.
Trigger Warning!!!1! :"Over 2100 meters", through the raghead's scope as he was laying prone taking up the creep from his shiite Eastern Bloc trigger assembly so he could gun down another American innocently erecting a friendship wall around Sadr City.Trigger Warning!!!1! :Wasn't through the scope. I was waiting for them to rip off Carlos Hathcock, who actually did shoot a notorious Viet Cong sniper through his scope during the Vietnam war. He did hit him in the head though. Not likely, not with one shot at that range. That's .50 BMG territory.Trigger Warning!!!1! :You'd rather pack a .338 Lapua...
And since the raghead was lying prone with with his eye to his scope...Jedi ChrisTex had to aim for the scope, the dime-sized spot between the eyes, or Haji's other eye. Considering the heat monkeys were probably jumpin' pretty strong midday in Baghdad, Kylenobi probably took the snap shot through the scope since it left a greater margin for error and, plus, Haji's reticle was likely visible, giving a smaller spot to aim for. I say that because ChrisTex Kylenobi was boxin' it up before the bullet arrived, and he didn't have to check himself. He knew.
Had he aimed between the eyes, the whole platoon would have had to cross town, take that highrise, and measured the distance from each eye to the bullet hole just to bust The Legend's balls if it was off-center.. That didn't happen, so...Trigger Warning!!!1! :Unfortunately for this theory, and for the film, according to the layout of the nests, the raghead was at about a 45 degree angle to Kyle-san shooting at soldiers erecting a wall to Kyle's right, so the bullet should have entered the side of the jihadi-corpse's head and no flash from the scope would have been visible to Kyle at that angle.
All Eastwood had to do was avoid the impulse to make him a superhero and reduce the range to something reasonable under a thousand meters. I was able to hit a 1 inch wide stick of dynamite at 784 meters with my .338 Lapua Magnum, but it took me two shots to do it. I've made first-round hits out to about 1200 meters, but they were torso targets where any hit counts, not head shots. It's possible to make a 2100 meter first-round hit with a .338, but the hit probabilities are very, very low. Even the world-record sniper shot by a Canadian marksman using a .50BMG Barrett took two rounds.
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That Canadian thing was wind-aided. Plus, the Canuck had a spotter with electronics calling the shot on a perfect day to watch the big shockwave off the big ugly .50 bullet. MahaSepoy GurKyle used good ol Copenhagen instead of a faggetty spotter with a bunch of fancypants little doodads. Amarillo by mornin' (Boom) Up from San Antone (Boom)...Texas two-step rhythm helps too.
Moostaphaa had previously sensed a disturbance in the Dark Side, and had already engaged KhanGurka Chris and his helpless Team with incredibly precise fire from the other highest point in the City. You may have been digging for popcorn.
Moostaphaa had previously sensed a disturbance in the Dark Side, and had already engaged KhanGurka Chris and his helpless Team with incredibly precise fire from the other highest point in the City. You may have been digging for popcorn.
