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Subject: Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill
clarkey188    2/18/2004 3:56:11 AM
Is there a record for the furthest sniper kill. I'm a keen rough/target rifle shooter and was reading in one of my magazines about a new .338 rifle (I think it was .338) They were saying it has the record for the furthest kill and it was by a Canadian in Afghanistan at a distance of over 1mile. Is this true can anyone verify this. I cannot remember wich one it was in and have been trying to find it again.If so that's some shooting considering the distance/weather/light, wind and everything that can have an effect on the accuracy of the shot.
 
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Brock    RE:Furthest Recorded Sniper Kill   6/23/2004 3:43:59 AM
There was a special in Soldier of Fortune Magazine about the longest ranged confirmed kill by a sniper det of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI). Canada's sniper's are really amazing. The training program is pretty intense. All sniper's generally are corporals roughly the equivalent of a US Army Sergeant, qualified basic radio operators (a 4 week course), qualified basic recce patrollers (a 7 week course), and then of course the 9 week basic sniper course. Normally, in a mechanized battalion the sniper will also be qualified drivers, both wheeled support and light armoured, and LAV gunner qualified. The great thing about Canadian infantry is that we really are jacks of all trades. it has pluses, but it also has our soldiers spread a little thin at times. In addition, all snipers are pretty guaranteed to have consistently shot the Canadian Army's infantry Personal Weapons Test (PWT) as expert marksmen before even being considered as snipers. We have pretty high standards, but in the Canadian Army there are actually only several dozen snipers--not a lot when you really think about it given the high demand for snipers.
 
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spongewrench       12/4/2006 11:44:41 AM
Longest recorded and confirmed kill (with a .50 cal McMillian), was by a Canadian (while in Afganistan) in the summer of 2002, 2400 meters (8,000 feet).
 
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doggtag       12/4/2006 1:49:39 PM
(wow! talk about resurrecting old threads...!)
 
Posted this up elsewhere on here some time ago,
Ronnie Barrett's new .416 cartridge:
 
 
Specifications
 
- Case Capacity
200 grains of powder
- Projectile
Solid brass boattail spitzer
- Projectile Weight
400 grains
- Projectile Length
2.0 in.
- Ballistic Coefficient
.943
- Cartridge OAL
4.58 in.
- Muzzle Velocity
3250 fps (supersonic past 2500 yds.)
- Accuracy
Under 1 MOA
- Barrel Length Choices
32 or 29 in. (81.28 or 73.66 cm)
- Rifle Lengths
50 or 45 in. (127 or 114 cm)
- Weights
25 or 23 lbs. (11 or 10.43 kg)

 
What I find interesting about the projectile is the supersonic past 2500 yds part.
That raises some considerable distance-shooting possibilities.
Biggest problem is though: being .416, that sets it in its own caliber class, away from either 7.62 or 12.7mm military ammo that's mass produced and readily procured.
But then again, .338 is in the same boat, as is the lesser-known CheyTac .408 (Cheyenne Tactical).
 
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Nasty German Idiot       12/7/2006 7:00:59 AM
Before 2002 it was Carlos Hathcock ...  killed Vietnamese with an Browning M2 with mounted telescope at a distance of 2,286 meters. (1,42 miles)

That would have been my first guess.

 
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Nightowl22    Longest kill   8/9/2009 3:03:21 PM
The longest kill is by an American at 2,395 yards with a .50cal.   The Afghanistan longest kill with A UK made .50 caliber is being clamed by a Scott newspaper
 
 
And that was a Taliban leader!!
 
 
 
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Anarchy.Override       10/15/2009 11:57:06 PM
NightOwl where do you get your information budd your about three years behind, as of today the farthest RECORDED military kill was Former Canadian Forces Sniper Rob Furlong. He hit three targets at 2,430m, during Opperation Anaconda. The shots were taken with a 50. caliber rifle.
 
The only issue with this shot, is the word recorded, anyone who is in any sort of military role should understand why, shooting at over a mile probably puts you somewhere you really dont want to go to RECORD your kill. 
 
If i ever manage to pass the canadian sniper training and have any opportunity to make a shot at such a distance, trust me when i say that seing the outline fall from my optics will be the only record i will ever need. 
 
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randomretard2010       12/21/2009 10:11:54 AM
 
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Heorot    New long range record.   5/2/2010 4:07:52 PM

A British Army sniper has earned a place in military history by killing two Taliban machine gunners from more than a mile and a half away.

Craig Harrison's record-breaking sharpshooting felled the insurgents with consecutive bullets - even though they were 3,200ft beyond the effective range of his rifle.

The Household Cavalry veteran's kills from a distance of 8,120ft eclipsed the previous sniper record by 150ft.

His pinpoint accuracy saved the life of his troop commander who was trapped in a vehicle under fire from the enemy in Afghanistan.

In an extraordinary tour of duty, Corporal of Horse Harrison cheated death twice - surviving being shot in the head by a Taliban bullet and escaping with two broken arms when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

The elite marksman killed the two insurgents with his British-built L115A3 Long Range Rifle, the Army?s most powerful sniper weapon.

The shooting was from such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to hit their target, despite leaving the barrel at three times the speed of sound.

Full story is here:

 

*ww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270414/British-sniper-sets-new-sharpshooting-record-1-54-mile-double-Taliban-kill.html
 
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blueline37       5/4/2010 11:37:33 PM
Two Canadian snipers of the same Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) regiment sniper team made the then longest recorded sniper kills in history with this weapon in Afghanistan, during Operation Anaconda, in the Shah-i-Kot Valley. On a March afternoon in 2002, Master Corporal Arron Perry killed an enemy combatant from 2,310 meters (2,526 yd/1.435 miles) and Corporal Rob Furlong killed an enemy combatant from 2,430 meters (2,657 yd/1.509 miles) with 750 grain Hornady A-MAX very-low-drag bullets.[2][3] This is the longest-ever recorded kill by a sniper in combat, surpassing the mark of 2,286 meters (2,500 yd/1.420 miles) set by U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War.[4][5][6] The five-man Canadian sniper team — MCpl Graham Ragsdale (Team Commander), MCpl Tim McMeekin, MCpl Arron Perry, Cpl Dennis Eason, and Cpl Rob Furlong — killed over 20 enemy combatants, and each of the five was nominated for the Bronze Star Medal. In 2010 the longest recorded sniper kill record by Corporal Rob Furlong was broken by Corporal of Horse (CoH) Craig Harrison, a member of the British Household Cavalry, using an L115A3 rifle.[7][8][9]
 
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HeavyD       8/31/2010 5:28:19 PM
Sorry, guys.  Although you may have to 'expand' your definition of 'Sniper', a guy in Florida killed an insurgent in Pakistan last month.  That's like 15,000 miles - a helluva shot - with a Hellfire delivered from a Predator drone.
 
OK, so if you have to be in the same time zone, the new 155 Excaliber round is now recording kills at upwards of 30 klicks.
 
OK, OK, if that is cheating, the new Viper Strike glide bomb can hit at with less splash at 10+ klicks.
 
So a 'Sniper' has to be a terra-boud individual?  The Tow Bunker Buster has doubtlessly cut short the life of a nasty from 3000+ meters:  One 'round' fired by one soldier at one enemy combatant.  Ain't that sniping?
 
 
Fine.  Be a stickler.  Wait till some Nasty German Genius and his buddies rip the 30mm RMK recoilless cannon (weighs 100 kg, no recoil) from his Wiesel and snipes with 1200 m/second APFSDS rounds.  BMG?  I got your BMG RIGHT HERE:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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