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Reply #15 - Mar 20^th, 2018 at 8:31am

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 20^th, 2018 at 12:47am:

That bullet would have been traveling faster than sound - right? So the quarry knew nothing as his head exploded. There are a lot harder ways to die. His God was a merciful God.

A 50 cal to the head will tend to remove all of the head from the neck up.

We should under no circumstance be letting our home grown terrorists back in the country, but allowing our snipers to free fire these fkkheads until they are all gone.

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Valkie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16096 Central Coast Gender:	Re: McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle brings down ISIS boss Reply #16 - Mar 20^th, 2018 at 8:40am The world is a better place without that Muhammad worshiping retard
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Reply #17 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 4:00am

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 20^th, 2018 at 12:47am:

That bullet would have been traveling faster than sound - right? So the quarry knew nothing as his head exploded. There are a lot harder ways to die. His God was a merciful God.

From what I gather, a sniper rifle bullet will travel at half the speed of sound. Assuming that the mark was paying attention to possible opposition firing on him, he probably would have heard the sound of the gunfire. But he would not have had time to do anything about it.

I fired a .303 at a target over 1km from my position. Low wind, stationary object -- there was no concern about the target moving away. I took the shot and hit the target in one go. A standard shot by any sniper in training. Perhaps this guy is getting too much acclaim for doing his duty.

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 80292 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle brings down ISIS boss Reply #18 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 5:15am https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_TAC-50 Muzzle velocity 805 m/s (2,641 ft/s) At 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound is 343 metres per second
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Australian Legend Posts: 21740 Rockhampton, Q Gender:	Re: McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle brings down ISIS boss Reply #19 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 5:17am The speed of sound is about 1100km/h
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Australian Legend Posts: 21740 Rockhampton, Q Gender:	Re: McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle brings down ISIS boss Reply #20 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 5:21am After reviewing the topics on the speed of sound, I must have been mistaken.
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle brings down ISIS boss Reply #21 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 6:06am When lightning struck in the distance we would start counting ... one ... two .. three ... and depending on what number you got up to before hearing the thunder-clap, that was how many miles away the flash had occurred.
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 80292 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle brings down ISIS boss Reply #22 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 6:07am UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 21^st, 2018 at 5:21am: After reviewing the topics on the speed of sound, I must have been mistaken. Simple error.... not to worry.
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Reply #23 - Mar 21^st, 2018 at 7:03pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 21^st, 2018 at 6:06am:

When lightning struck in the distance we would start counting ... one ... two .. three ... and depending on what number you got up to before hearing the thunder-clap, that was how many miles away the flash had occurred.

1km/sec is 3600km/hr. Sound does not travel that fast. 1mile/sec is 5760km/hr. I had the impression that sound travelled at 1/3rd the speed of 1km/sec. I would divide the number by 3 and that would be the distance in km where the flash was.

Meanwhile, I still get the life scared out of me of any lightning flash occurring within 100 metres of where I live.

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