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Title: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: hardwood on November 18, 2010, 01:01:19 am
We were lucky enough to be invited to a sniper training event on base by our E.O.D. friends. Long range .308 practice is a blast!

308_0001.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYRAHWZTbw#)

Scott
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: hardwood on November 18, 2010, 01:03:32 am
Did I forget to mention that they had 50 cal BARRETTS TOO??? X:X :piano:

50 cal.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtZiAJ8ZVA#)

Scott
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: AllenF on November 18, 2010, 09:57:46 am
Oh that looks like just too much fun.   1200 yards or what was that target set up on for the 50?
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: hardwood on November 18, 2010, 10:04:22 am
The longest shots were 900yds. Most were 100-600yds.

I thought it a bit odd that the instructors (Federal Agents) used yards instead of meters, but that's how all of their range foumulas (windage, spin drift etc) were set up.
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: AllenF on November 18, 2010, 10:06:00 am
Did you have to pay to shoot or buy the ammo or what?   I would like to hear of something like that up here.
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: hardwood on November 18, 2010, 10:12:22 am
This was all free for us...just had to fork out $100 for gas to get there and back. The only reason we were able to attend is that our friends with the E.O.D. were running the show.

Scott
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: VolunteerK9 on November 18, 2010, 11:38:16 am
I went to Blackwater in NC for a week long training gig. At the time they were having an Advanced Sniper School where they were strapped on the skids of a Littlebird Helo . Impressed the heck out of me them making shots with the Barretts out of a not so stable, in flight platform.
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: bud1 on November 18, 2010, 09:24:00 pm
Scot; envious. always wanted to try a 50
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: Irwin on November 19, 2010, 10:56:34 am
Way cool Scott. That was one of many thing's I enjoyed about the Army I have shot about every thing they have. Then the fun of blowing up stuff  with c4.
Title: Re: SHBminator steps it up a notch
Post by: tim adams on January 29, 2011, 09:32:58 pm
I want one......
Tim