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50-cal Sniper in Afghanistan
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NikPreviousAcct
No Lifer
Correct. My boss is a Marine sniper and says that even getting knocked to the ground by a 762 is because your body may go limp as a reaction to the shot, not the force of the shot knocking you over. People don't fly backwards or flip over or any of that crap. In order to do that, the person shooting the weapon would also be knocked back a relatively equal amount without being braced by something.
He says that the .50 cal will blow the target in half if the target is sized and weighted for a human, but the parts essentially just drop in the same relative area. They don't get thrown around like that in the video unless the target's mass is significantly less than an adult human. MAYBE a small child.
DainBramaged
Lifer
hahaha
noob in a box
Member
holy carp!!!!!one! are those bodies flying off after he shoots?
and that thing ownzors a covenant beam rifle
and that thing ownzors a covenant beam rifle
TitanDiddly
Guest
Those are small animals, right? Like seekers of the red mist?
manohartvs
Senior member
:thumbsup:
LordMorpheus
Diamond Member
The M-82 (50 cal sniper rifle) can be loaded with smaller rounds. They go much faster and are accurate to unreal distances.
For the non-scientific they did a myth busters episode of "Being Blown away" hollywood style. IE get shot and go flying back. They proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, 9mm, .357, high powered rifles, shotgun at close range, mp5. Shooting at a pig corpse that is barely hanging on the tip of a hook will barely move.
Out of everything only the shotgun made the corpse fall from the hook.
It's just simple physics. An action creates an equal and opposite reaction. Thus if a person was to be sent flying back, the operator of the weapon would have to fire a weapon with enough force to send them flying back as well.
If you've ever taken a look at the video from the old SoCal bank robbery with the two armored gunman. One is shot by a sniper in the head and just goes limp. No hollywood magic of him going flying. Puff of blood from the exit side, and the body goes limp.
Out of everything only the shotgun made the corpse fall from the hook.
It's just simple physics. An action creates an equal and opposite reaction. Thus if a person was to be sent flying back, the operator of the weapon would have to fire a weapon with enough force to send them flying back as well.
If you've ever taken a look at the video from the old SoCal bank robbery with the two armored gunman. One is shot by a sniper in the head and just goes limp. No hollywood magic of him going flying. Puff of blood from the exit side, and the body goes limp.
jlee
Lifer
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