A World-Record Shot
A British sniper holds the world record for longest confirmed kill.
By NRA Staff
06/07/2010
A British sniper has established a new world record for the most distant confirmed kill in combat. Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison of the Household Cavalry dispatched two Taliban machine gunners from a distance of 2,707 yards with an Accuracy International AWM, or military-designated L115A3, in .338 Lapua Mag. in November 2009.
Harrison made the 1.5-mile shots in the Helmand Province in southwestern Afghanistan in defense of an Afghani-British foot patrol at an elevation of approximately 3,400 feet.
With “no wind, mild weather, (and) clear visibility,” as he put it, the sniper took the shots that beat the previous record held by Canadian sniper Rob Furlong, who killed a Taliban fighter at 2,657 yards in the Shah-i-Kot Valley of eastern Afghanistan in 2004 with a McMillan Tac-50.
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