For several years I've been mildly fascinated by those .50 caliber rifles used by military snipers. Today, I saw a short video that cranked my interest up a notch. The video was sent as an e-mail attachment by a guy named Joe who was my pal in 6th grade. He sold me a European rabbit when we were boys. I named the rabbit Ozzie, and Ozzie outlived the friendship with Joe.
Anyway, my name is on Joe's contact list of members of our high school graduation class, which is how I happened to get this clip. It runs about 35 seconds in all. As it begins, a marksman is sighting in on an iron target about 100 yards down range. He fires, the round ricochets off the target, hits the ground a few yards in front of the marksman, bounces, and clips the earmuffs he's wearing. All of this occurs in two seconds elapsed time. If the ricochet had deflected a few inches differently, the sniper might've received a head wound from his own shot. I was listening through headphones... in two seconds, I hear the rifle fired, the clang as the round hits metal, the whine as the ricochet comes back uprange, and the pop as it hits the shooter.
Anyway, my name is on Joe's contact list of members of our high school graduation class, which is how I happened to get this clip. It runs about 35 seconds in all. As it begins, a marksman is sighting in on an iron target about 100 yards down range. He fires, the round ricochets off the target, hits the ground a few yards in front of the marksman, bounces, and clips the earmuffs he's wearing. All of this occurs in two seconds elapsed time. If the ricochet had deflected a few inches differently, the sniper might've received a head wound from his own shot. I was listening through headphones... in two seconds, I hear the rifle fired, the clang as the round hits metal, the whine as the ricochet comes back uprange, and the pop as it hits the shooter.
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