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When a 24-year-old Marine sharpshooter named Carlos Norman Hathcock II chalked up the farthest recorded kill in the history of sniping - 2,500 yards (1.42 miles, a distance greater than 22 football fields) in February 1967 he fired a Browning M2 .50 Cal. Machine Gun.
Viet Cong shot dead by a round fired from a scope-mounted Browning M-2 .50 caliber machine gun at the unbelievable range of 2500 yards.
While the "true" sniper rifles usually are bolt action ones, to achieve maximum accuracy...
...famous Hathcock shot that killed an enemy from more than 2,500 yards (2,286 m) away...[permanent dead link]
As a semi-automatic weapon with no bolt-handle to operate, the sniper need not be distracted with the operation of loading the next round into the chamber.
The 5.8 X 42mm "heavy round" cartridge has an effective range of 800m and can penetrate 3mm steel plate at a distance of 1,000m.
The two-man Canadian team, coupled with American Sgt. Zevon Durham of Greenville, S.C., made the kill from 2,430 metres, or nearly 2 1/2 kilometres, on the second shot.
While the "true" sniper rifles usually are bolt action ones, to achieve maximum accuracy...
Viet Cong shot dead by a round fired from a scope-mounted Browning M-2 .50 caliber machine gun at the unbelievable range of 2500 yards.
