Two of these are not like the others.
Started by SpleenBeGone, Oct 30 2013 07:23 AM
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 07:23 AM
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Tentacular!
Posted 30 October 2013 - 10:13 AM
Looks like England wins again
“Shimatta! Bare… nan no koto kashira?”
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 11:21 AM
Looks like England wins again
Nuh uh, we have a civilian buffalo hunter. You will never have anything that cool.
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 11:32 AM
Looks like England wins again
They do, yes, but in typical american fashion we just lobbed big ass bullets in the general direction.
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 02:08 PM
They do, yes, but in typical american fashion we just lobbed big ass bullets in the general direction.
I'm imagining an American sniper firing is rifle like a mortar, then being like "holy fuck I hit someone awesome"
“Shimatta! Bare… nan no koto kashira?”
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 03:06 PM
I just did the math on it. (well, the ballistics calculator on my phone did, I just did the bullet research.)
There would be a bullet drop of 4527 inches, so the gun would need to be at 4.682*
At the target, the round would be traveling 591 f/s with a retained energy of 388ft-lb. Flight time would be 5.65 seconds.
These are all rough estimates of course, since I don't know exact bullet speed, temperature, pressure and humidity at the time.
edit- herp derp, just realized I did angular calculation assuming straight line.
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 07:05 PM
strait
I believe you mean straight >.> a strait is a thin channel of water connecting two large bodies of water. Not sure why, but I really couldn't help but grammar nazi this.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 07:11 PM
You are correct good sir. I even thought to myself that didn't look right, but spell check didn't catch it so I figured meh.
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 08:55 PM
Billy Dixon was not pissing about.
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
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Posted 31 October 2013 - 09:39 AM
Billy Dixon was not pissing about.
Still, we have the other two podium places so far. So that counts for something.
I like how they don't know who the Norwegian or South African snipers are...
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Posted 31 October 2013 - 12:25 PM
Billy Dixon was not pissing about.
No he wasn't. >.>
Is it bad that my eye /always/ goes directly to caliber?
Also, thanks Spleen, now I want a .50 cal again >,..>
I do too.
What sort of .50 though?
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Posted 05 November 2013 - 02:48 PM
In all reality, Billy Dixon is the grand poo-bah of this game.
He did it well before all of this fancy technology we have now.
FTW.
He did it well before all of this fancy technology we have now.
FTW.
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Posted 06 November 2013 - 12:32 PM
Being obsessed with marksmanship myself. I have always considered Simo Hayha to be the best sniper who has ever existed.
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Posted 06 November 2013 - 02:29 PM
Being obsessed with marksmanship myself. I have always considered Simo Hayha to be the best sniper who has ever existed.
Beware the white death.
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Posted 12 November 2013 - 12:40 PM
He was absolutely not the guy to fuck with.
Snipers more often than not made the best/scariest war stories a reality.
There were a few Russian snipers that royally fucked Ze Germans repeatedly and acted like it was not big thing.
They were just defending their property/security.
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
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Posted 12 November 2013 - 03:08 PM
I like that the Russians offered a peace treaty when he woke up. >.>
Chris Kyle is another very interesting sniper on that list, though most of his stuff is still classified.
http://www.badassoft.../chriskyle.html
And of course, the one on the top guy: http://badasshistory.com/harrison.html
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Posted 12 November 2013 - 03:13 PM
I read about that Kyle guy.
Didn't he get shot and killed at a shooting range not too long ago?
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
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Posted 12 November 2013 - 03:34 PM
Yep.
On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Kyle and a companion, Chad Littlefield, were shot and killed at the Rough Creek Ranch-Lodge-Resort shooting range in Erath County, Texas[22] by 25-year-old fellow veteran Marine Eddie Ray Routh, whom Kyle and Littlefield had purportedly taken to the gun range in an effort to help him with what they were told by his mother was post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[23][24]
Local police captured Routh after a short freeway chase, which ended when Routh, who had left the scene of the shootings in Kyle's Ford F-350 truck, crashed into a police cruiser. Routh was arrested just before 9 p.m. the same day in Lancaster, Texas.[25] Erath County sheriffs said the motive for the killing was unclear.[26] Routh, from Lancaster, was arraigned February 2, 2013, on two counts of capital murder, according to Sgt. Lonny Haschel of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He was taken to the Erath County Jail for holding under a $3 million bond.[27]
A memorial service was held for Kyle at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on February 11, 2013. Kyle was buried on February 12, 2013, in Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, after a funeral procession from Midlothian, Texas, to Austin, stretching over 200 miles. Hundreds of local and out of state residents lined Interstate 35 to view the procession and pay their final respects to Kyle.[28][29]
