How does it hold some of the longest distance confirmed kills when it’s not a precision rifle and there’s more accurate cartridges out there? Is it just luck at that point?

>>64014127 (OP)
How tf are kill sover 300 kms away "confirmed"?
What if the guy just ducked?
What if some guy 5m away from him shot him and the sniper took the credit?

Is the scope even on the guy at that point? Wouldn't it be pointed way up in the sky to account for trajectory and maybe a little to the side for windspeed. Why wouldn't the target have moved by the time the sniper sets up the 300km+ kill?

>>64014127 (OP)
>Wouldn't it be pointed way up in the sky to account for trajectory
lmao

>>64014127 (OP)
Its about maintaining energy over distance.

>non self propelled projectile can reach 300km

>>64014127 (OP)
>Is it just luck at that point?
Essentially. If you read the source material on most of the known long range confirmed kills with it they're just lobbing rounds at dudes stuck on a mountain top trying to set up a HMG/mortar.

It's still impressive but it's not the one shot one kill meme you hear associate with snipers.

>>64014212
>round lands next to them
>huh must've been the wind

>>64014234
Most of them involve hei rounds so they were probably shitting their pants for most of the engagement.

Shooting a man-size target at >1000 yards is basically a crapshoot.

Even if you're using a sub-1 MOA rifle with match-grade ammunition, you still have to deal with all sorts of other factors. Anyone who lands a hit at those ranges is basically just lobbing rounds downrange and trying to get lucky.

Actually trying to land a first-shot hit at those ranges without knowing the exact range to target beforehand probably would require a laser rangefinder, a ballistic computer, and meteorological equipment.

>>64014148
>300 kilometer sniper shot

>>64016799
Is this futa?

It's sort of the convergence of three things

1 HTI, hard target interdiction. Shooting at trucks, fuel tanks, munitions, radar, ballistic missiles. At the range of a mile it might be implausible to hit a man size target, but reasonable to hit a missile.
2. Inaccuracy of rifle vs. Deflection.
.50 doesn't get deflected by wind very much, which over longer distances becomes a bigger deal then 0.1 of an MOA.
3. Terminal effect
At extreme ranges some rounds may not be sufficiently lethal. A high velocity round that loses its velocity, an anti material rifle has the same mass.

So you get HTI teams shooting trucks and artillery positions from distances a sniper wouldn't engage infantry, and occasionally the HTI team will hit infantry, by accident, because they fired 30 rounds in a row, because they're shooting into an anthill of infantry.

So the extreme range kills, rather than extreme skill, you're looking at harassing fire, dumb luck, an anthill of enemies, infantry in a much larger target like a truck