• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    I saw someone saying he must have been a professional because he “hit a spot smaller than a quarter from 200 yards”… Like, my dude, you are assuming the goal was to hit that exact spot? Every bullet “hits a spot smaller than a quarter” from every range. I agree this wasn’t likely to be the first time this person held or shot a rifle, but he also doesn’t need to be Jason Bourne…

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      12 hours ago

      big difference from making that shot on a target field, and knowing you are going to kill someone, and have to get away with it. No amateur would have taken one single shot, see the Trump shooting.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s a bolt action, at a pretty typical hunting range (142 yds is the estimate).

        Its not all that outrageous of a shot. A good shot, and a skilled one. But not at all unusually skilled.

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        11 hours ago

        It was a bolt action rifle, not an AR like was used in the Trump shooting, you aren’t going to fire 3 rounds before you know what the first one did. And you are assuming an average person in a mental state that both understands and cares about the sanctity of life.

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          3 hours ago

          and, why not? Oswald famously managed to fire three deadly accurate (magical, even) bullets from his Carcano 38 within mere 7 seconds.