Maximum range for sniper rifles?

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Sir_Isaac_Brock

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Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 7mmRM</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wow! With all this entertainment, I just may skip the New Years party.... </div></div>


hell yeah what Isaac said.....this shit is to entertaining
 
#6
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Does that include super secret squirrel sniper rifles? I bet those shoot further. My brother's best friends uncle plays airsoft all the time and he told me he can hit marbles at 1500 yards all day with his airsoft sniper gangster rifle, so super secret squirrel sniper rifles have to shoot way further than that.
 
#7
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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A true sniper would not waste ammo on that,... short of a shot,... that is snope an poop, knife range.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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Ill tell you a secret....
Ever wondered how the craters on the moon got there?
SNIPERS!!! with counter sniper scopes.
 
#13
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>

We're still waiting for your first post
 
#14
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KYSHOOTER338</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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Ill tell you a secret....
Ever wondered how the craters on the moon got there?
SNIPERS!!! with counter sniper scopes. </div></div>

...over .499LWR's
 
#15
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>

No more so than your profile
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#17
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KYSHOOTER338</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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</div></div>

Ill tell you a secret....
Ever wondered how the craters on the moon got there?
SNIPERS!!! with counter sniper scopes. </div></div>

Dont forget they were using .499.....
 
#18
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>

If you ask foolish questions.....it would stand to reason the answers might be the same.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>

SPAM!! Outrageous!!! You are getting input from some of the most experienced shooters from around the world. You doubt these thoughtful posts? Infidel!!! If I could, I would slap you in the face with a leather glove and challenge you to a duel.
 
#22
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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only if you had a .223/5.56, I've been told by a U.S. sniper ninja that unconfirmed shots have been taking form over 10 miles with a .308 and a 50bmg can do 40 miles(but only if they have that red tip)
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BronxFireGuy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Does that include super secret squirrel sniper rifles? I bet those shoot further. My brother's best friends uncle plays airsoft all the time and he told me he can hit marbles at 1500 yards all day with his airsoft sniper gangster rifle, so super secret squirrel sniper rifles have to shoot way further than that.</div></div>

This is hillarious, nothing more to say. Thanks for the belly laugh. I needed that.
 
#24
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mrs.Lazy21</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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only if you had a .223/5.56, I've been told by a U.S. sniper ninja that unconfirmed shots have been taking form over 10 miles with a .308 and a 50bmg can do 40 miles(but only if they have that red tip)</div></div>

Is this Lazy21 posting as his wife??? I think so....

thought you got banned?
 
#29
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>



Its ok friend.The furthest range with a SNIPER=(precision)rifle is 9,847m!Done with a 16"barreled ruger 10/22 with a muzzle velocity of 19,000 fps.
Thats no shit Ask 4 or 5 members here(i cant relenquish the names)they all did it with the aforementioned ruger.......
Oh yeah they were all 1rst round hits....
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 467</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>



Its ok friend.The furthest range with a SNIPER=(precision)rifle is 9,847m!Done with a 16"barreled ruger 10/22 with a muzzle velocity of 19,000 fps.
Thats no shit Ask 4 or 5 members here(i cant relenquish the names)they all did it with the aforementioned ruger.......
Oh yeah they were all 1rst round hits.... </div></div>

remember, there was that one "called flyer"
 
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Are all you posters on this thread a collective bunch of arrogant assholes ? Hey he didn't know his question was to vague ? All answer . Bro it depends on what kind of sniper rifle. In Iraq they had Army snipers with M-24 making in excess of 1,000 yard single shot confirmed kills. A young 21 year old marine with aid of his spotter with his issued M-40 was making head shots on running insurgents at 600 yds. Another report of snipers with Barret .50 cal shooting through cender block walls at 1,000 yds. Hey I wouldn't want a well trained sniper shooting at me 600 yds away with a tricked out M-16
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Iron Worker</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are all you posters on this thread a collective bunch of arrogant assholes ? Hey he didn't know his question was to vague ? All answer . Bro it depends on what kind of sniper rifle. In Iraq they had Army snipers with M-24 making in excess of 1,000 yard single shot confirmed kills. A young 21 year old marine with aid of his spotter with his issued M-40 was making head shots on running insurgents at 600 yds. Another report of snipers with Barret .50 cal shooting through cender block walls at 1,000 yds. Hey I wouldn't want a well trained sniper shooting at me 600 yds away with a tricked out M-16 </div></div>

Would you like some help off your soapbox?
 
#37
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Soap box, then we have the ballot box, and last but not least the cartridge box. Its you arrogant belligerent people that need help getting down of your pedestals. Didn't like that persons question on this forum ? Where he can view sponsor's web sights ! Or check out the classifieds. Maybe he was thinking about joining the NRA. Are was attracted to the voice of the Tea parties. Shame on you for letting your little head do your thinking for your big head. People we want to talk shit to is Obama,Boxer,Biden,Axlerod, Democrat controlled houses..... Here's some good ole boy who wants to learn about our hobbie and you want patronize him !
 
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well it seems to me, that is he was computer savvy enough to find this site, then he should have used google to find the other answers to his questions. he gets offended by the replys then that is his problem. He will learn not to ask stupid questions like that after he gets laughed at awhile for being stupid. Hell when I was young and asked questions and got made fun of, I started doing my own research on the given subject until I learned enough to understand, and if I still didnt understand when I was finished, I asked INFORMED questions.

Try using Google its a great tool, I have asked some pretty dumb questions on here that had obvious answers that I was just to lazy to look up, maybe thats his problem as well.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Iron Worker</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Soap box, then we have the ballot box, and last but not least the cartridge box. Its you arrogant belligerent people that need help getting down of your pedestals. Didn't like that persons question on this forum ? Where he can view sponsor's web sights ! Or check out the classifieds. Maybe he was thinking about joining the NRA. Are was attracted to the voice of the Tea parties. Shame on you for letting your little head do your thinking for your big head. People we want to talk shit to is Obama,Boxer,Biden,Axlerod, Democrat controlled houses..... Here's some good ole boy who wants to learn about our hobbie and you want patronize him ! </div></div>


Let me noodle through this with your comments. The original post requested the following.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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From Wiki via first link off Google.

<span style="color: #FF0000">Range
The longest range recorded for a sniper kill currently stands at 2,430 meters (2,657 yd, or 1.51 miles), accomplished by Master Corporal Rob Furlong, a sniper from Newfoundland, Canada, in March 2002 during the war in Afghanistan. Furlong made this record-breaking kill while he was participating in Operation Anaconda. He was a member of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI). To make the kill, he used a .50 caliber BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 bolt-action rifle.[18] Utilizing a ballistic calculator, it is possible to reproduce the trajectory and time-in-flight of such a ranged shot. With a nominal muzzle velocity of 2,910 feet (890 m) per second for the .50 BMG M1022 Long Range Sniper[19] round, and an estimated ballistic coefficient of 1.05,[20] such a shot fired at the estimated altitude of 9,000 feet (2,700 m) for the Shah-i-Kot Valley would have taken 3.92 seconds to reach the target, and drop 155.8 feet (47.5 m) during flight. Also note at such a long range, even a light breeze of 20 kilometres (12 mi) per hour would have blown the bullet off target by 20.8 feet (6.3 m).

The previous record was held by U.S. Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock in February 1967 during the Vietnam War, at a distance of more than 2,347 yards (2,146 m) using a scope-mounted Browning M2 .50 machine gun.[21][22][23] By contrast, much of the U.S./Coalition urban sniping in support of operations in Iraq is at much shorter ranges, although in one notable incident on April 3, 2003, Corporals Matt and Sam Hughes, a two-man sniper team of the Royal Marines, armed with L96 sniper rifles each killed targets at a range of about 860 metres (941 yd) with shots that, due to strong wind, had to be “fire[d] exactly 17 meters (56 ft) to the left of the target for the bullet to bend in the wind.”[24]

During Operation Enduring Freedom, Spanish Navy Marine snipers shot cables hanging from the mast to the bridge of the North Korean freighter So San, smuggling Scud missiles through the waters of Socotra Island. These cables were preventing it from being boarded by fast rope for an arms inspection. The shots were made at a range of 400 yards (370 m), with rough sea, from the deck of SPS Navarra (F85), and the Marines were armed with Barrett M95 rifles.[citation needed] During Operation Harekate Yolo in Afghanistan, one Norwegian sniper of the 2nd Battalion, aiming from a trench, hit a Taliban insurgent from a distance of 1,380 meters, using 12.7 mm multi-purpose ammunition.[25]</span>

Being an engineer by training and profession numbers have relevance. So let’s put some perspective on his questions in layman terms.

2500m= 1.54 miles
3000m=1.85 miles
3500m=2.15 miles

“fire accurately” is that minute of angle or minute of barn?
And let’s not even begin on the discussion of “sniper rifles” (care to open Pandora’s Box)?

I am all for helping those that help themselves. A simple Google search would have yielded the results to his question.

And yes I am a NRA Life Member and a NRA RSO so I am on the range and one the street doing my part and more…
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys are great my first post and all I get is spam! </div></div>


"if you can't handle it, I don't what to tell you, stand in the cold more often you'll skin will get thicker" LL
 
#42
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sir_Isaac_Brock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, for sniper rifles, what is the maximum distance they can fire accurately? 2,500m? 3,000m? 3,500?

Thank you

SIB
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Sorry about all the grief on the first post but someone should really have said it depends which movie your watching to know the true max ord distance-I rekon the chinese ones would go further cause the more full of shit
 
#43
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Hey c'mon the guy has a question about range of sniper rifles . He finds sniper hide and thinks "I bet some one on this web site will provide an answer" . What is so stupid about that ? Did it ruin your day that he didn't research the question the way you thought he should ? Was it below some of you to answer his simple question. Tunnel vision smart mouths.
 
#44
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I think the point you are missing is, if he got an answer to his foolish question, he might ask another stupid question and before you know it the board is flooded with this crap. If that happens, the name would change to ar15dotcom.
 
#46
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">IW,

Have you seen the SnipaGangsta thread? There is reason to suggest this OP may also be a ploy! </div></div>

Point made
 
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