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It is widely accepted within interdisciplinary circles that for a standard rifle firing full-powered cartridges (e.g. .308 Winchester), "long range" means the target is more than 600 m (660 yd) away, [citation needed], while "extreme long range" is generally accepted as when the target distance is more than 1,000 m (1,100 yd) away from the shooter.
For example, a rifle capable of firing a ½ or 0.5 MOA (approximately 0.5 inch center to center of the two holes furthest apart) 5-round group (often referred to as "grouping") at 100 yards will theoretically fire a 12.5 inch group at 2,500 yards (0.5 × 2,500/100 = 12.5). Unless the group is centered perfectly on the target at 100 yards, the ...
A farmer who engaged Union troops at long range during the American Civil War and recorded 36 officer "kills" on his custom-made .50 caliber Kentucky long rifle with iron sights. [72] United States: Lon Horiuchi: 1954– A Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who shot Randy Weaver and shot and killed Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge. [73] United States
Boomershoot [1] is a long-range precision rifle event held near Orofino, Idaho each year in late spring. Participants fire long-range rifles at explosive-filled targets from 375 to 700 yd (343 to 640 m).
Bearing physical and emotional scars, Club Q survivors and victims’ relatives bravely stood this week in the same room as the shooter who killed their loved ones before Anderson Lee Aldrich was ...
The three main technologies employed for long-range shooting—the bolt-action rifle, telescopic rifle scope and machined cartridge ammunition—were developed in the nineteenth century. The first bolt-action rifle was produced in 1824 by the German firearms inventor Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. The first documented telescopic rifle sight was ...
Subway surveillance images show Sebastian Zapeta-Calil leaving the car as the woman burns to death. Surely, someone would have thrown their coat over her, ran to look for water, screamed at her to ...
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