Texas Shooter Nails Target at 3650 Yards with .375 CheyTac

Posted on May 17, 2013 by KG

HERE   interesting claim in this article that Aussie forces are using the same rifle.

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28 Responses to Texas Shooter Nails Target at 3650 Yards with .375 CheyTac

  1. thor42 says:
    May 18, 2013 at 09:52

    Great stuff!

    On the subject of weapons, I LOVE the “Future Weapons” series that Mack did (I don’t know if the series is still being made).
    He’s a *legend!*

  2. KG says:
    May 18, 2013 at 10:21

    I don’t know anything about that series, Thor.

  3. Darin says:
    May 18, 2013 at 11:27

    Future Weapons was a Discovery channel series.Dunno if it’s still being produced,but the show featured Richard “Mac” Machowizc a former USN Seal as it’s host.Basically each episode they focus on the latest weaponry the world over.Kinda like Motorweek for war fighters and techi folks.

    http://youtu.be/yZdmc-iRARs

    Mac is as also a dam good hand to hand instructor-

    http://youtu.be/xSO2_k8z8mc

    • thor42 says:
      May 18, 2013 at 13:14

      Yep – that’s the one!

      Mac looks like a really great guy too – the kind of guy you’d love to have a drink with and listen to his stories (and I’ll bet he has a few….. :) )

  4. KG says:
    May 18, 2013 at 11:37

    Cool! Thanks for that.

  5. Darin says:
    May 18, 2013 at 11:54

    If anybody is into any gaming he’s also a consultant for the new game Ghost Recon-
    http://youtu.be/2A6ahGi_5qE

  6. thor42 says:
    May 18, 2013 at 15:31

    Speaking of weapons….

    The 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid (Op. Chastise) has just passed. From Wikipedia –
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

    “Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the “Dambusters”, using a specially developed “bouncing bomb” invented and developed by Barnes Wallis.”

    As a Kiwi, there’s another big anniversary coming up – the 60th anniversary of the conquering of Mt Everest on 29 May 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing –
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Hillary#1953_Everest_Expedition

  7. Oswald Bastable says:
    May 18, 2013 at 16:30

    Only two of them still alive. :sad:

  8. George says:
    May 18, 2013 at 17:14

    One round on a 12′ x 12′ target at two miles is not news. During WW2 a competent Vickers gun crew could put 3 belts (750 rounds) on a 45 x 65 yd area at that distance in less than two minutes. Multiply that by 4 guns in a platoon all firing in parallel at the same target and you have some serious hate. All done at night firing over hills as indirect plunging fire, usually on a map reference. 3ooo rounds descending into less than an acre in the time it takes you to read the posts to here twice….

    • KG says:
      May 18, 2013 at 18:22

      A lot different to a man with a rifle, though, George.
      A naval 16 inch gun could do it at ten miles or more–so what??

      • George says:
        May 18, 2013 at 19:09

        The caliber. The task. The numbers required to serve it.

        But you’re probably right. My background niggle stems from the mania everyone has for for newer and better rifle calibers. Every shot is a gravity affected parabola. You just have to know where the end of the parabola intersects the line of sight. The Boer was taking out men at over 1000m over iron sights 110 years ago. His humble 7×57 is around today and yet derided as a lady’s gun. He was no lady, but he was a marksman.

  9. thor42 says:
    May 18, 2013 at 18:46

    Slightly off-topic……
    I’m trying to remember the name of the black U.S. military officer (captain? general?) who has often criticised Islam.
    ( It’s not Colin Powell… ) I *think* his surname begins with W.

    For the life of me, I can’t remember the guy – he is well-known and was a possible Presidential candidate at one point.
    Can anyone help me out?

    • thor42 says:
      May 18, 2013 at 18:50

      Ahhh – I’ve remembered!

      *** Allen West! ***

      ( I *think* his name was tossed around as a possible POTUS candidate…… )

        • thor42 says:
          May 18, 2013 at 19:02

          Thanks for that, Gantt Guy!

          Anyway, yeah – he is *great!*
          Why on *earth* didn’t the GOP pick him as a presidential candidate in 2012?

          Didn’t he put his name forward?
          *Surely*, he would have pissed all over Obama!

          • The Gantt Guy says:
            May 18, 2013 at 19:05

            Why didn’t they? They didn’t because they despise him.

            The reason he’s no longer in Congress is because the Florida Electoral Commission re-drew the boundaries of his district. When he was elected it was something like +2 or +3 Republican. Then, because they wanted to get rid of him they redrew the lines on the map and overnight his district becomes something like +9 Democrat.

            The Florida Electoral Commission is run by the State GOP.

            They despise him. He’s a man of character and integrity.

  10. thor42 says:
    May 18, 2013 at 19:19

    Ahhhhhhhhhh…….

    So *that’s* what happened…. :evil:
    Utterly bizarre. I *wondered* why on earth it was that he suddenly disappeared “off the radar”.

    Along comes a guy like West who would *wipe the floor* with Obama, and the GOP *stuff up* the golden opportunity.
    Amazing…….

    It makes you wonder if the *Democrats* have infiltrated the Florida GOP. I wouldn’t put it past them.

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      May 18, 2013 at 19:24

      Nah, I just think the GOP and the Dems are virtually indistinguishable from each other. You wouldn’t call McCain or Boehner Dems, but for all intents and purposes they might as well be.

      They really are the stupid party. I mean, last time they ran a genuine Conservative (what would today be termed a ‘TEA Party candidate’) was 1984. And they only carried 49 states!

      • Darin says:
        May 18, 2013 at 22:49

        Yup,the Republican establishment is composed of limpwristed effeminate metrosexuals who believe we have to play nice and suck up to liberals.

        West is a military man,who is not familiar with the term compromise.Will do what it takes to win and if he’s not sleeping he is fighting and taking ground.

        In other words he’s the exact opposite of the surrender monkeys in the RNC leadership.

        • thor42 says:
          May 19, 2013 at 09:38

          I would LOVE to see West get the nod as the GOP presidential candidate for 2016!

          Is there *any way* that he could manage that? Ok, he’d have to leave Florida (of course) so is there *any other* state that has hard-nosed GOPs who would welcome him?

          • Darin says:
            May 19, 2013 at 10:31

            IIRC he originally came from Georgia which may be red enough to do it.

            The problem though is not so much overcoming the Democrat opponent,it’s overcoming the media.

            The last two elections for POTUS were engineered by the media.It is they who skewed the polls and got McCain and Romney on the ballot by smearing anyone even remotely conservative.

      • Carol-Christian Soldier says:
        May 19, 2013 at 04:56

        You are so right on about the GOPs-
        C-CS

      • Carol-Christian Soldier says:
        May 19, 2013 at 04:56

        Right on about the GOPs!!>>>
        C-CS

  11. Darin says:
    May 18, 2013 at 22:52

    How to save shotgun shells-

    http://youtu.be/NFjFptZ1wGI

  12. thor42 says:
    May 19, 2013 at 11:41

    @Darin – “IIRC he originally came from Georgia which may be red enough to do it.”
    Ahh… ok!
    I always find it interesting that the US reverses the colours for the left and right-wing parties. Many other Western countries use red for left-wing and blue for right-wing, but it’s the reverse in the US (which means I always have to do a “mental shift” and think “ok, a “red state” is a GOP one”…… :) )

    @Darin – “The problem though is not so much overcoming the Democrat opponent,it’s overcoming the media.
    The last two elections for POTUS were engineered by the media.It is they who skewed the polls and got McCain and Romney on the ballot by smearing anyone even remotely conservative.”
    Agreed. If it were a rugby game (15-a-side), the media would be the 16th, 17th, 18th 19th and 20th players for the left-wing team.

    Here in NZ, the media *is* still left-wing, but people seem to be more aware of the bias and the media seem to be much more ridiculed and mocked than they are in the States.
    Down here, the right-wing OWNS economic and welfare policy, and the left are fighting like hell to keep the one area they still control – education. No surprise there – it means they can keep on brainwashing.

    • Darin says:
      May 19, 2013 at 13:30

      “I always find it interesting that the US reverses the colours for the left and right-wing parties. Many other Western countries use red for left-wing and blue for right-wing, but it’s the reverse in the US (which means I always have to do a “mental shift” and think “ok, a “red state” is a GOP one”…… )”

      Some quick history on that-
      http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/When-Republicans-Were-Blue-and-Democrats-Were-Red-176776491.html

      Over here we suffer from the “low information voters” as Rush calls them.People who know more about what the Kardashians and whatever sports figure they are following than the man with his finger on the Nuclear trigger.
      There is a smaller group the yellow dog dems who will vote Democrat regardless.I know one of those,he is as racist as they get,dyed in the wool Dem and according to him”he’s gonna vote Obama because he hates Republicans worse he does N—ers” :roll:

      • thor42 says:
        May 19, 2013 at 18:49

        Hi Darin, thanks for that!
        An interesting bit of history there on the political colours!

        Yeah – the “low information voters” and the “yellow dog Dems” would be a problem, that’s for sure. It doesn’t help that the commie education system (which is just as commiefied down here as anywhere) pumps out more of them.