2 ELR world Records broken in a few days !

[Kingair001]

I noticed this one a few days ago :

October 3 2017 - Russia

SVLK-14 sniper rifle : hit at 4604 yards !

https://sputniknews.com/russia/20171...-rifle-record/

In the meantime it was apparently 'broken' even before the Russian WR was shot :

September 30 - USA

Armalite AR-30 : hit at 5000 yards !

https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/ame...ds-2-84-miles/

 

[ATH]

So if I load up 100 rounds and rapid fire them at a target 5100 yards away, and one of them happens to hit the target, do I get credit for a "world record"?

These escapades are meaningless unless there are defined rules about what constitutes a hit. The 5000 yard shot appears to have taken 37 shots to connect. I see little impressive there. Now give someone a MOA or 2 MOA target and 3 shots to connect, and I start to care.

 

[257Tony]

40" Target at 2.84 miles is impressive in my book, even at 37 rounds. That guy put my 264 together a few years back, good work!

 

[Kingair001]

So if I load up 100 rounds and rapid fire them at a target 5100 yards away, and one of them happens to hit the target, do I get credit for a "world record"?

These escapades are meaningless unless there are defined rules about what constitutes a hit. The 5000 yard shot appears to have taken 37 shots to connect. I see little impressive there. Now give someone a MOA or 2 MOA target and 3 shots to connect, and I start to care.

If it is all 'peanuts' hop in and put the WR in your name

If you can do it in 36 rounds you got it !

 

[Alex Wheeler]

I do agree there needs to be a governing body and set of rules for records to be set. If the hit is all that counts a guy just needs a rifle capable of launching a bullet that far and lots of ammo. However this guy is the first to hit a target that far I guess, which is pretty cool.

 

[adam32]

Who's record is it? NRA? BLM? PETA? CIA? Guinness? Anti-Fa? SCI? LRH?

Can I go shoot a 10/22 at a mile, eventually make a hit and call it a "record"?

He probably is he first guy to hit a target that far...probably the first guy to try...hence the "record"...

Next we'll start seeing "records" pop up for hits on big game animals and every yahoo on the 'net will be trying to break it...lots of wounded animals will be running around in the near future.

 

[Switchback2]

The 4606 wasn't a record, Adam Kodra hit 3 out of 5 shots at 4752 back on June 5th 2017.