Ukranian Sniper - 13,000ft kill shot - New World Recrord

Impressive feat. But more and more, it seems like some of the rifles (systems?) being used to make these extreme long range shots are so specific purpose or specialist that they have minimal general purpose sniping application. They are, in effect, crew served weapons. Good, but we’ve had impressive artillery for a while now.

It seems like the lines are getting blurred - “sniper weapons systems” are becoming shoulder mounted artillery, snipers are becoming artillery crewmen and spotters are becoming field artillery forward observers. All fine and necessary, but again, we’ve been doing artillery well for a while now.

I still think of a sniper as a complete rifleman with superb fieldcraft, the ultimate combination of shooter and stalker, not the operator of a barely mobile “system.”

I think I’m more impressed with what has come to be called the “DM” and “DMR” concept.
 
Let's reframe it with more of a geo political lens: One of many invading soldiers of both Russian and North Korean origin, spurs the single largest human migration in recorded history, purposefully targets, tortures, rapes and kills civilians, traffics children for nefarious purposes, levels entire cities, wastes away over 1 million of its own casualties to now hold less than 20% of the country it seeks to occupy, has aspirations for additional expansionism throughout the region.... and all of that to potentially be acting as little more than a proxy for Chinese global dominance.

More rounds down range = less of all the above.
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My guess is that AI handled the compensation and coordination between the drone spotter and the rifle optic. Something along the lines of having a geo ballistic app loaded on both the drone and the optic. The "smart scope" is fed all of the relevant geo ballistic data: range, wind direction/speed, barometric pressure, elevation, angle compensation etc from the drone in real time. The shooter then delivers on their end with with a proper setup, trigger technique and recoil management. Welcome to the future.
This technology has been around for at least 10 years. I remember watching a video about the technology of guys hunting in Africa. Here is a youtube video I found but disclaimer, I cant view the video because of firewalls at work. Just search up TrackingPoint Rifle System on youtube.

 
Drones will never be allowed in hunting.
In Tennessee it is still, to my knowledge, legal to use drones to scout public land.

Kids will park on the edge of public land, throw a drone in the air, fly the entire block of property looking for strutting gobblers, if they find one they take off to go sneak up on it, if they do not they drive to the next block of land and look again.

The same people will complain that we don't have as many turkeys as we used to. I try to make it a point to ask them how many nest predators they trapped the previous winter. I guess most of them blew their trapping budget on their drones.
 
In Tennessee it is still, to my knowledge, legal to use drones to scout public land.

Kids will park on the edge of public land, throw a drone in the air, fly the entire block of property looking for strutting gobblers, if they find one they take off to go sneak up on it, if they do not they drive to the next block of land and look again.

The same people will complain that we don't have as many turkeys as we used to. I try to make it a point to ask them how many nest predators they trapped the previous winter. I guess most of them blew their trapping budget on their drones.
Definitely illegal, call it in. They can pretend they’re just doing recreational photography but that’s between them and the warden who’s gonna search the truck for hunting gear. I’m unaware of a state that hasn’t updated their regs on this, there was a strong push in the mid twenty teens when they were really popular.
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Definitely illegal, call it in. They can pretend they’re just doing recreational photography but that’s between them and the warden who’s gonna search the truck for hunting gear. I’m unaware of a state that hasn’t updated their regs on this, there was a strong push in the mid twenty teens when they were really popular.
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Yes, hunting with drones is illegal.

Scouting for tomorrow, without a gun in the truck, and relaying info to your buddy in the other vehicle, is a bit murky, though. I honestly didn't see anyone doing it last year, probably because I sort of burned out on public turkey hunting. The juice isn't worth the squeeze here anymore. But there's always going to be a struggle between people defining what is 'hunting' and what is not as far as technology goes. And when we try to draw boundaries people will find ways to push them.
 
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