>> ^mentality:
>> ^Drachen_Jager:
But the longest range sniper kill ever recorded was not fired from a Barrett, which has never held that distinction.
It was from a McMillan Tac-50, in fact it broke the record twice on one day in the hands of the PPCLI. Prior to that the record was held by an American sniper using a modified .50 Browning machine gun.

That's because the M95 is used as an anti-materiel rifle, not an anti-personnel rifle.


When it was initially introduced it was supposed to be used as an AMR, correct. Even then it was used as an anti-personnel rifle though. There was some confusion at that time about how the Geneva Convention and other treaties against the use of certain weapons against people applied to .50 BMG rounds, currently it is considered that these treaties do not apply so it's role is officially as a multi-purpose rifle.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
But the longest range sniper kill ever recorded was not fired from a Barrett, which has never held that distinction.
It was from a McMillan Tac-50, in fact it broke the record twice on one day in the hands of the PPCLI. Prior to that the record was held by an American sniper using a modified .50 Browning machine gun.


That's because the M95 is used as an anti-materiel rifle, not an anti-personnel rifle.

But the longest range sniper kill ever recorded was not fired from a Barrett, which has never held that distinction.

It was from a McMillan Tac-50, in fact it broke the record twice on one day in the hands of the PPCLI. Prior to that the record was held by an American sniper using a modified .50 Browning machine gun.

From the Youtube page: Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada conduct a dawn raid on a Taliban compound on July 13, 2006 in Hydarabad, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. (The regiment in question is the PPCLI, or Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.)

By the way, the guy talking at the end has a distinctly rural-Prairie accent, lest anybody think we Canucks all sound like Coach Z