New world record for extreme long range shot set in Wyoming

New world record for extreme long range shot set in Wyoming

[jayhemfindsyou]

As a ballistics fan, the fact that bullet hole in the target is round, still indicates that the bullet was flying straight and not starting to tumble is the most amazing thing here. Bullet's spin like a football spiral and eventually the slow down to the point where the spiral starts to fade and the bullet tumbles like a punted football. Just amazing really. I would love to know the specifics of that bullet and it's velocity at that range.

[dustyweber]

I remember back in my day, we used to shoot 4 miles uphill. BOTH WAYS IN THE SNOW!

[smokepeddler]

Love how they show pics of an AR at the beginning. Just to make it seem even more deadly

[rdm]

Might this have been relevant: the name of the shooter, the rifle used, the caliber used, the ammo used, the location. Omitting that info would be like reporting that a professional golfer shot 57, and not saying who the golfer was or where the record was set. Assuming the same shot, it was Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries. It was a Frankenstein assembled rifle shooting a .416 Barrett, cutting edge MTAC 422-grain, 3, 300 FPS. Vortex Razor 6-35x56 FFP, EBR-7D MOA reticle. 1, 092 MOA of elevation and 17 MOA left hold. Lots of other info.

[Gallagher.]

Who thought it was a good idea to get b roll of AR-15s while talking about ELR lol

[MTMILITIAMAN.]

4.4 miles * 5280 feet/mi = 23232 feet
Speed of sound = ~1123 fps
23232 feet/1123 fps = 20.69 seconds
So it took approx 21 seconds for the sound of the gunshot to get to the target, and about 24 seconds for the bullet to reach the target. This means the bullet was not only subsonic when it reached the target, but was so much so that it averaged less velocity than the sound. Judging by the cant built into the scope base, this basically amounted to sub-MOA indirect fire.

[armedcitizenx]

They used the same method field artillery used to use before the targeting systems. Keep lobbing enough rounds at a target and eventually you will hit it.

[LedGuitar]

Ca just banned guns within 4.4 miles of any school, park, courthouse, sidewalk, …………

[agalgonzalez]

To hit a 8" / 20 cm target at a distance of 4.4 miles/ 7.08 km with a rifle is absolutely incredible!

[iluvtheblues]

Essentially, you just have to have a rifle that will shoot a bullet that far. At that distance, the wind changes so many times, that each shot truly is a bang and a prayer. This is why it took 69 attempts.

[algarcia]

Wth them dudes just sitting there 25 feet away from the target on the hillside waiting for it to hit?! 😁🤣 that’s some straight Idaho sh** right there.

[unknown-umlq]

That's a long way to walk to change targets during a range check...

[charlescastle]

This is the kind of stuff the news should talk about!

[davidyetter]

USS WISCONDIN, 16" guns accurate at over 20 mi. Leaves a crator the size of an olympic swimming pool.

[TheKolen]

69th shot. Shooter knew exactly wtf he was doing..

[testphonephonetest]

And when I was in high school, I could throw a football over those mountains- Uncle Rico

[Hurricane]

Do you realize that at 4.4 miles you actually have to start accounting for the curvature of the planet in a trajectory calculation? That’s an absolutely insane shot!

[raymondoreilly]

It would be nice to know the calibre and what rifle and scope, they used.

[mikesuch]

It's so funny when I was a kid shooting ground squirrels and getting paid for it in Riverside California from a friend's dad to keep his cattle safe. It was just something we learned to do and never thought we were really pushing our rifles. We didn't really think much of it back then but getting squirrels at 200 yards with a 22Lr was not very hard. We grew up shooting there so we knew the holdover instantly. When did she took us a couple seconds judging the speed of the wind. This is back in the 70s. Back when I had 60/40 vision now my vision is 20/20 and shootin eye is 20/15 at 62 years old. I want to go to Texas and gets some Hogs. Built a AR-10 with thermal scope that should be fun.

[rogerwilson]

I'd like to see the trajectory of the bullet and the angle it was falling when it hit the target.