It seems that there is a new record for a long distance kill by a military sniper!


www.nypost.com/p/news/...3HgWlmEgRL

2475 meters yip thats a looong way allright. good use of a couple of rounds.

Thanks for the alert. This is very impressive and I've read that the bullet fall at this distance is around 100m.

Just found another news story that has a few more details.

www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...-kill.html

Holy cra.........wow! The bullet drop alone is farther than most shots normal people take!

My little mind is officially blown. I wanna see the dope sheet on those two shots!

I assumed this was a .50-cal. It was a .338, WOW!! Now I want to know what bullet he was using and what it's BC was. I assume it was a .338 Lapua for the cartridge.

Accuracy International built .338 Lapua !!! They do make it in a 300 Wimp Mag for those who haven't figured it out.........yet !!!

chambered221 wrote:

They do make it in a 300 Wimp Mag for those who haven't figured it out.........yet !!!

That aint right.

Nice!!!!

From another Forum, for those that want the details :-

The MOD claims a muzzle velocity of 936 m/s (3,071 ft/s) for the L115A3.
This implies the British military are using a high pressure load to attain this muzzle velocity.
Internal ballistic software predicted that a typical military .338 Lapua Magnum load using Lapua LockBase B408 bullets at an overall cartridge length of 91.44 mm (3.600 in) produces ≈ 460 MPa (66,833 psi) maximum piezo chamber pressure to achieve the claimed 936 m/s (3,071 ft/s) muzzle velocity.

Manufacturer: Lapua Description: Lock Base
Caliber: 0.338 in Weight: 250.0 gr
Ballistic Coefficient: 0.662 G1
Bullet Length (Library): 1.457 in
Muzzle Velocity: 3071.0 ft/s Distance to Chronograph: 10.0 ft
Sight Height: 1.90 in Sight Offset: 0.00 in
Zero Height: 0.00 in Zero Offset: 0.00 in
Windage: 0.000 MOA Elevation: 0.000 MOA
Line Of Sight Angle: 0.0 deg Cant Angle: 0.0 deg
Barrel Twist: 11.0 in Twist Direction: Right
Wind Speed: 10.0 mph Wind Angle: 90.0 deg
Target Speed: 10.0 mph Target Angle: 90.0 deg
Temperature: 85.0 °F Pressure: 29.92 in Hg
Humidity: 0.0 % Altitude: 4921.0 ft
Vital Zone Radius: 5.0 in
Std. Atmosphere at Altitude: No Pressure is Corrected: Yes
Zero at Max. Point Blank Range: No Target Relative Drops: Yes
Mark Sound Barrier Crossing: No Include Extra Rows: No
Column 1 Units: 1.00 in Column 2 Units: 1.00 MOA
Round Output to Whole Numbers: No
Output Data
Elevation: 3.635 MOA Windage: 0.000 MOA
Atmospheric Density: 0.06077 lb/ft³ Speed of Sound: 1144.1 ft/s
Maximum PBR: 361 m Maximum PBR Zero: 305 m
Range of Maximum Height: 169 m Energy at Maximum PBR: 3806.3 ft•lbs
Sectional Density: 0.313 lb/in² Stability at Muzzle: 2.353
Calculated Table
Range Drop Drop Windage Windage Velocity Mach Energy Time Lead Lead
(m) (in) (MOA) (in) (MOA) (ft/s) (none) (ft•lbs)(s) (in) (MOA)
0 -1.9 *** 0.0 *** 3075.1 2.688 5248.2 0.000 0.0 ***
100 -0.0 -0.0 0.5 0.4 2943.9 2.573 4810.1 0.109 19.2 16.8
200 -2.9 -1.3 2.0 0.9 2816.5 2.462 4402.9 0.223 39.2 17.1
300 -11.0 -3.2 4.5 1.3 2692.7 2.354 4024.2 0.342 60.2 17.5
400 -24.9 -5.4 8.1 1.8 2572.1 2.248 3672.0 0.467 82.2 17.9
500 -45.1 -7.9 13.0 2.3 2454.7 2.146 3344.4 0.597 105.1 18.4
600 -72.2 -10.5 19.1 2.8 2340.4 2.046 3040.0 0.734 129.2 18.8
700 -106.8 -13.3 26.6 3.3 2229.0 1.948 2757.5 0.878 154.5 19.3
800 -149.9 -16.4 35.5 3.9 2120.6 1.854 2495.9 1.029 181.1 19.8
900 -202.1 -19.6 46.1 4.5 2015.4 1.762 2254.4 1.188 209.0 20.3
1000 -264.7 -23.1 58.4 5.1 1913.5 1.672 2032.1 1.355 238.4 20.8
1100 -338.6 -26.9 72.5 5.8 1815.0 1.586 1828.3 1.531 269.4 21.4
1200 -425.1 -30.9 88.7 6.5 1720.3 1.504 1642.5 1.716 302.1 22.0
1300 -525.7 -35.3 107.0 7.2 1629.7 1.424 1474.1 1.912 336.6 22.6
1400 -642.0 -40.0 127.7 8.0 1543.6 1.349 1322.4 2.119 373.0 23.3
1500 -775.7 -45.2 150.8 8.8 1462.4 1.278 1187.0 2.338 411.5 24.0
1600 -929.0 -50.7 176.6 9.6 1386.6 1.212 1067.2 2.569 452.1 24.7
1700 -1103.9 -56.7 205.1 10.5 1316.8 1.151 962.4 2.812 494.9 25.4
1800 -1302.8 -63.2 236.4 11.5 1253.5 1.096 872.1 3.067 539.9 26.2
1900 -1528.2 -70.2 270.6 12.4 1197.3 1.047 795.7 3.336 587.1 27.0
2000 -1782.8 -77.8 307.6 13.4 1148.5 1.004 732.1 3.616 636.5 27.8
2100 -2069.0 -86.0 347.3 14.4 1106.5 0.967 679.6 3.908 687.9 28.6
2200 -2389.3 -94.8 389.7 15.5 1070.6 0.936 636.1 4.211 741.1 29.4
2300 -2746.2 -104.3 434.5 16.5 1039.3 0.908 599.5 4.523 796.1 30.2
2400 -3141.9 -114.3 481.8 17.5 1011.8 0.884 568.2 4.845 852.7 31.0
2500 -3578.6 -125.0 531.3 18.6 987.2 0.863 540.9 5.175 910.8 31.8

Here's the rifle

wy111, thanks for the extra details. Now I'm even more impressed. A bullet with a .662 BC went this far!?! I would have guessed the bullet had a better BC than that. The Canadians use the Hornady A-Max in their .50-cals with a BC slightly better than 1.0.

Slim, Some years back I followed a series of articles on the development of the Chey-tac cartridge. I remember reading about how they went to some proving grounds somewhere in order to test bullets through a radar system.
As I recall the bullets were considered classified and very little information was given on them.

I often wondered if that technology would find it's way into the shooting sports...........maybe it has......maybe it hasn't......sure would of enjoyed reading more on the subject.

Slim, Get a chance look up "Lost River Technologies" and their "Balanced Flight" bullets.

It seems as though this is what I was reading about !!!

chambered, thanks. Here is some more details. Makes my head spin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.408_Chey_Tac