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Even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while, but it helps a lot when it is very good, practices a lot and has the best in equipment. Once again I appreciate the help of our Canadian friends in the sand box.
Mike

I'm no mathematician, but when I see lightning I count: "mississippi 1, mississipi 2" till I hear the thunder. The number I reach at about one second intervals in the count is the mileage to the strike. Ten seconds would be ten miles, so I don't think the target could have heard the 2.14 mile shot...Geo

He might have heard the thud of that 750 grain bullet finding home. But ..... he didn't remember it.

SRH

Five second per mile George. Figure a thousand feet per second.

Considering where the shot was fired, I doubt distant gunfire bothers those folks. Maybe, for two or three seconds, the lucky fellow thought it was a wedding. In the deer woods, a shot that goes off a couple miles away usually doesn't get the whole camp hitting the deck.

I got no problem with our snipers taking pot shots at Taliban heads. If he suffers a little before he dies so much the better.

Snipers, or what I like to call them sharpshooters, are a tremendous force multipliers and one, two man team, can terrorize an attacking force. Who ever thought of bringing the 'sniper' force to the forefront once more and the through relentless training elevating it to a military science in this war was a frickin genius.

No more, "Here Hathcock take this Model 70 and go shoot some gooks with it."

If you mean Carlos Hathcock, nothing could be further from the record.
"Probably his most daring and important active-duty mission was when Hathcock shot and killed a North Vietnamese Army general from a range of about 700 yards. Hathcock literally spent days crawling, inches at a time, to get within range of the general�s command post."
Gil

At sea level and standard temperature, humidity, and pressure, speed of sound is 1115 fps.

2,14 miles @ 5,280 Ft per Mile = 11,299.2 Ft. 11299.2/1115 = 10.134 seconds. It would appear if it took the bullet 10 sec's to arrive, it & the sound arrived almost simultaneously. This will of course vary a small amount dependant upon how much the conditions vary from the standard, but it isn't going to be a large amount.

That 1 second per mile is not even playing in the same Ball Park. 5280' / 1115 ft/sc's = 4.735 seconds per mile of sound travel.

I timed my "Mississippi one", just about 5 seconds. Of course if you were actually from Mississippi, it might stretch out to seven or eight seconds to say...Geo