I spent a lot of time analyzing that using the a max, but with no way of calculating precisely the drag against it and the effects on the really long shot, and I didn't believe the results that I got. What was that, maybe a 2-300 feet drop from point of firing to point of impact?
I know that the spotters have computers with programs that can give trajectory figures, markers to dope wind, and those spotters are brilliant. Nobody ever gives them credit.
I don't know how he even got within several yards of it. It's incredible. Impossible. And yes, he bagged him with only one shot, according to reports.
That thing was literally miraculous, the probability of making that shot was astronomical, given all of the obstacles that they faced
We have had the best of the best working with technology and skills that are nothing short of phenomenal. They have been doing this for thirty years, right? It took thirty years to make the shot, and God knows if anyone will ever do it again.
That's my take on a shot taken from over 3,000 yards striking a target that was about a foot square with only a single shot. It makes my skin crawl. What if they were just the tiniest fraction of a degree, a tiny puff of wind, even hitting a June bug and getting the smallest degree of deflection?
Awe is too small of a word. bagging him at that distance implies that he could have nailed a pea at hundreds of yards at any given time, over and over.
Will that ever happen again?