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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
regarding your spoiler - that is a makable shot. I watch a lot of sniper documentaries as it fascinates me. Just last night they had a show that showed a Marine in Iraq who made a killshot on a mujahadeen sprinting across an alley at 1000yds with an M24 rifle who's effective range is only 800yds. It happens, but at the edges of the effective range and beyond it really becomes more about luck than precision, as they are exceeding the capabilities of the sights and using their experience to guess where to shoot.
As for the above comment that the Hurt Locker sniper "dogfight" was ridiculous, you're wrong. The rifle being used was a Barrett M82 50 cal. It has an effective range of 1800 yards (over a mile). At that range it takes over 4 seconds for the round to hit target. The only questionable part was what weapon the mujahadeen was using, but I'm not familiar with their weaponry. It is quite plausible though that they had a capable weapon. For example Barrett 50 cal rifles can be bought civilians.
EOD teams have sniper training, as they may use the 50 cal rifle to detonate IEDs with incendiary and explosive armor piercing rounds. The 50 cal sniper rifles are used against soft targets at times, but their primary use to disable non and lightly armored vehicles. The so called Raufoss rounds have a round very much like an anti-armor missile, with an explosive core that drives a tungsten sabot through the armor where it becomes like molten shotgun pellet bouncing around the interior of an armored personnel carrier. Awesome stuff. These rounds are also effective through masonry walls.
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