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| A Sniper taking position |
A Canadian military sniper took out
an ISIS fighter with a record-breaking shot from more than two miles away, according to a report in the Globe and Mail, though some have
cast doubt on the claim.
The unnamed sniper who apparently
carried out the feat was a member of Joint Task Force 2, an elite unit in
the Canadian army similar to the US Navy's SEAL Team 6. The shot, according to
the paper, disrupted an ISIS attack on Iraqi security forces.
"The bad guys didn't have a
clue what was happening," one source told the paper.
The report said the kill was
verified by video and other data, though it was not made public. If confirmed,
the 3,540 meter kill shot (or about 2.2 miles) would beat the previous sniper record set by British Army sniper Craig
Harrison from a range of 2,475 meters (or 1.54 miles).
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| A McMillan TAC-50 |
TM Gibbons-Neff, a reporter for
The Washington Post who previously served as a US Marine Corps sniper,
expressed skepticism over the
claim in a post on Twitter. At such a long distance, he said, the
tiniest adjustment to the sniper's windage or elevation settings on the scope
could result in a bullet being wildly off course when it got to its
target.
There's also the question of the
power of the rifle's optic, and whether it could actually make out a human
at such an incredible distance.
Still,
the shot is possible.
The rifle used was a McMillan TAC-50, a long-range sniper rifle that fires a .50 caliber bullet at 2,700 feet per second.
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