Longest shot….

[Duck-Slayer]

7,774 Yards: New World Record Rifle Shot Set in Wyoming

A team of long-range shooting experts in Wyoming set what appears to be the new world record for the longest rifle shot ever completed: 7,774 yards or 4.4 miles. Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries led the team from Nomad Rifleman, a shooting range and instruction center based in Jackson Hole...

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That’s a long Frickn shot!! 1,000+ moa
Matt

 

[millerkiller77]

69 shots, kentucky windage?

 

[2rocky]

That's closer to artillery than shooting, but still an amazing accomplishment. Repeatable....well I dunno...

 

[Farmerj]

At 10’x10’, it’s still like 1.5 MOA

 

[QuazyQuinton]

1092 MOA means elevating 91 feet at 100 yards, right?

QQ

 

[Farmerj]

1092MOA X 1.047” per MOA = 1,143.324 inches

1,143.324 inches / 12” per foot = 95.277 feet.


Approximately…

 

[Farmerj]

I guess they used the .416 barret

 

[QuazyQuinton]

Well, if you're going to get all technical, MOA is a radial measurement, so if you're talking about elevation at a 100 yard target, you're going to have to work a tangent function in there.

QQ

 

[Straight Arrow]

Silly numbers; silly records ... beg the question, "Why?!"

(Constructive accomplishments deserve praise. Goofy goals, achieved or not, go down in the annals of the historical guano of newsworthy nonsense.)

 

[Sytes]

Pretty cool watching those contraptions huck pumpkins off to yonderland! This is pretty epic in its own right!

“We’re not claiming… that we can walk out any day, any wind, any condition and hit an eight-inch circle at 4.4 miles,” he said. “We’re saying we went out, just having fun, and tried to hit a target a long way away.”

If $ and time fit your fancy, that's a pretty flipping cool accomplishment - for chits n grins.

 

[Farmerj]

All with a $10,000 rifle plus scope.

 

[mtmuley]

All with a $10,000 rifle plus scope.

Guys spend that on hunting rifles all the time. mtmuley

 

[jrabq]

Time-of-flight about 25 seconds!

 

[Rack Daniels]

How in the world do you find a spot to safely shoot 4.4 miles away

 

[mtmuley]

The 2 Mile shoot is more impressive to me. mtmuley

 

[Hammsolo]

69 shots, kentucky windage?

I know it’s dickish to say, but I don’t find this to be a huge feat due to the number of shots and investment in it. I wasn’t jacked when Bezos flew his penis rocket to space either. I’d be much more impressed (jaw droppingly) with a traditional bow skewering an apple at 100 yards in a random field on the first shot.

This feels like the long range hunting videos that make me cringe.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Not spending my money on it, but pretty cool regardless.

 

[Rack Daniels]

I know it’s dickish to say, but I don’t find this to be a huge feat due to the number of shots and investment it. I wasn’t hacked when Bezos flew his penis rocket to space either. I’d be much more impressed (jaw droppingly) with a traditional bow skewering an apple at 100 yards in a random field on the first shot.

This feels like the long range hunting videos that make me cringe.

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[Farmerj]

How in the world do you find a spot to safely shoot 4.4 miles away

It’s called Wyoming

 

[TakeABreakAndTouchGrass]

SMH, they used Vortex scope.... It's a miracle they could even take 69 shots before it broke....