Longest Sniper Shot Record Broken?

[Beendare]

[please avoid politics. This is about the shooter, the rifle and the cartridge]

Even with an insane rifle and cartridge, I am skeptical that anyone could get 2 out of 3 hits on a man sized target at 3,800 meter shots.

Information about the Rifle and Cartridge Link.

Ukrainian sniper uses ‘Horizon’s Lord’ rifle to take out Russian soldier from 2½ miles away

The record-setting sniper used a Ukraine-made Volodar Obriyu rifle, which translates to “Horizon’s Lord,” to shoot the enemy soldier from 3,800 meters, or 2.3 miles — more than 40…

nypost.com

A Ukrainian sniper took out a Russian soldier from nearly 2½ miles away with a high-tech rifle known as “Horizon’s Lord” — shattering a world record for the longest sniper kill, Ukraine says.

The record-setting sniper used a Ukraine-made Volodar Obriyu rifle, which translates to “Horizon’s Lord,” to shoot the enemy soldier from 3,800 meters, or 2.3 miles — more than 40 US football fields — away.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) noted the record achievement in a statement, crowing, “A new world record: a sniper of the SBU destroyed an orc [Russian soldier] from a distance of 3.8 km.

“A sniper of the SBU set a world record for a successful shot,” it said.

“He took aim at a Russian soldier from an incredible distance of 3,800 meters,” the unit said, according to the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

The previous record is believed to be held by a Canadian soldier who hit a target from a distance of 2.2 miles in Iraq in 2017.

Grainy footage of the reported record-setting shot, which has not yet been verified, was shared across Telegram channels.

Two figures can be seen in the footage, highlighted within a circle that shows the area targeted by the sniper.

A dramatic video shared by the Ukrainian military’s Office of Strategic Communications showed the enemy soldier dropping after being struck by the round, fired from the equivalent of about 30 football fields.

After three shots are fired, the two figures drop down to the ground before starting to crawl away.

It’s unclear when or where the shot was made.

In November 2022, the Ukrainian military claimed it recorded the second-longest combat kill in history after one of its snipers gunned down a Russian soldier from 1.68 miles away.

A dramatic video shared by the Ukrainian military’s Office of Strategic Communications showed the enemy soldier dropping after being struck by the round, fired from the equivalent of about 30 football fields.

“The occupier was eliminated by a precise shot of our special forces,” the government organization said.

The shot marks “a distance that now ranks second in the world ranking, confirmed by the command of the Armed Forces,” it added.

Did you see the recant of the story…it was only 75y…the optical quality of his scope was so bad it LOOKED like it was 3 miles away.

 

[mi650]

IDK, obviously wasn't there. But Frank Green/Bartlein seems to at least believe it's possible, said he made the barrel.

 

[307]

IDK, obviously wasn't there. But Frank Green/Bartlein seems to at least believe it's possible, said he made the barrel.

Doesn’t he know that the first liar never stands a chance…

 

[Dos XX]

a blind squirrel finding its nuts

 

[dirtshooter]

Calling BS, us Canadians still hold the record. Dallas Alexander used a refracting prism mounted on his rifle to make the shot, this guy used aisle 40's plumbing parts.

 

[Jmort1754]

Yeahhhh about that.

 

[Rburns28]

Man thats a long way to shoot

 

[dtmbinb]

Insane accuracy.

 

[Molon Labe]

Hitting a .5MOA target at over 4000yds two out of three times? KO2M teams would love to sign his wind caller/spotter and I’m sure the AB boys would like to get their hands on this magic rifle.

Shot would need 100mil of elevation roughly…that scope has 27mil of adjustment. No charlie in the scope and looks like zero on the rail. Wasn’t that rifle that made the “record” shot.

Now let’s look at wind. Center dot on the reticle is .05mil which would be around 8” wide at target. At 35x you would be pretty washed out. Plus you would need to have perfect environments over flight path AND call your wind within .1mph. Each mph of wind is around 100” of drift at that range.

The gun would need to have muzzle velocity SD of less than 1 to hit 66% of the time. Every FPS at that range is roughly 9” of elevation. The ES on those 3 rounds would need to be 2FPS

I am 100% positive this is an exaggerated story.

 

[walk2112]

The video linked in the NY Post article, and the one in question is very obviously not thermal. The other two links in the thread are FLIR and not from the event in question. Here is a screen shot from the one of the shot in question.

FLIR can be zoomed like any other optic and I have watched people in it from pretty far away.

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That video should have an EDM/Techno version of this sound to go along with this modern day Vasily Zaitsev a la 'Enemy at the Gates'

More importantly, did you by chance get to see proof the baby otter survived? ;-)

 

[Rthur]

Say this rifle was zeroed at 1k, what's the elevation adjustment/dope even with that round
necked to a 50 to reach this range?
What is the smallest reticle thickness and how much coverage(how thick would it look like) at this yardage
compared to the width of a human body?
Was a version of the Charlie Terac used to get all the required adjustment to reach this distance?

I see some of these questions were addressed a few posts above.

R

 

[StLPro2A]

.223 and 77 grain TMK is the answer. What was the question?

Recall being young with all the answers, not a clue though to what the questions were..... Dad's been gone 18 years, still getting smarter every year. Dad was right!!!