Chris, in the comments of my previous post, draws my attention to an even longer sniper kill, by a Canadian, Rob Furlong in Afghanistan. It’s all on wikipedia. 2430 meters, which beats the previous best from the Vietnam war.
A 3-man al-Qaeda weapons team was moving into a mountainside position when he shot and killed one carrying an RPK machinegun from a distance of 2,430 metres. His first shot had missed entirely, and his second shot had hit the knapsack on the militant’s back.
The shot was fired from a .50-caliber McMillan Brothers TAC-50 rifle.
Furlong left the forces to pursue a career as a police officer.
