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General Category => Security & Survival => Topic started by: Erick on July 19, 2016, 08:15:25 PM

Title: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Erick on July 19, 2016, 08:15:25 PM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-baton-rouge-gunman-taken-201116445.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-baton-rouge-gunman-taken-201116445.html)

Discuss.

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Nemo on July 19, 2016, 09:04:44 PM

Sheriff sure is making a big deal that the crook was taken out with a 100 yard shot, from his swat team. 

If thats a big deal he needs new swat guys.

Nemo

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Erick on July 19, 2016, 09:08:03 PM

I agree.
Lets see if we get more comments...

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Kbop on July 19, 2016, 09:11:47 PM

...at least they got the right target. 
I'm not sure what the 100 yards hoopla is about either.

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Erick on July 19, 2016, 09:38:30 PM

Well depends on the situation.
As a quick up from a standing unsupported position 100 yard is respectable.
if the target wore body armor and this was a head shot even more so ( no info on that)

Again depends on the speed of the shot and if the SWAT guy indeed shot real quick from standing unsupported as one would think if he is in a meeting engagement or if it was from the prone.

At the end of a lane I often run, the capstone target is 4 inches at 100m (110 yards) from the unsupported prone.

And you are VERY winded when you get to it.... Of course the prone helps a lot and I tend to make the shot nearly every time..but even running the wrong ammo (change of zero) can make  a difference for the worse.
if I was winded and doing it from the standing unsupported the 4 inch target would be VERY difficult...  a lucky shot almost.
But then again its  a LOT smaller than a mans torso. ..
I think at 100m 4 inch is about the same as shooting a a torso at 300m?

I doubt the SWAT guy was an actual SWAT "sniper", likely he was running an M4 with a EOtech or an Aimpoint..... it seems like a meeting engagement but the briefer sadly didnt go into that kind of detail...

But then again I watched it only once...

Anybody notice anything else that was interesting?

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: EJR914 on July 25, 2016, 02:26:46 AM

Interesting that they did a briefing that way.  We really didn't need a play by play, that was strange.

Who would care if they killed him from 300 yards away with a SWAT sniper or it was a 50 yard shot? 

It was a good shoot, so who cares how far the officer was when he took the guy down?

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Nemo on July 25, 2016, 09:41:44 AM

I was wondering why the sheriff or chief or whoever made such a big deal of 100 yards away.  Seems anyone who is a decent marksman (appleseed!) could have made that shot.

Nemo

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: Erick on July 25, 2016, 05:37:01 PM

I think for a rowd such as this one the detailed play by play should hold some good interest though  :boltAction:

Title: Re: Interesting briefing about the Baton Rouge Shootout.
Post by: EJR914 on July 27, 2016, 10:15:28 AM

My blind, dead grand mother could have made that shot with a rifle with iron sights  8)