User talk:Julmo01
CheyTac Intervention
[edit]Hi, I have no doubt a .408 Chey Tac chambered rifle can fire at and depending on the target size and required hit percentage can hit targets well over 4 km away. The CheyTac Intervention article is about a military sniper rifle mainly intended for shooting at distant human sized point targets. So we need to know besides the 3,695 m distance to the target, target size (130 cm x 120 cm) and employed chambering (.408 Chey Tac), the exact employed rifle type (I can not read in the provided references a Chey Tac 408 M300 rifle was used) and the achieved percentage of hits to appreciate the shooting feat. Besides that there are more .408 Chey Tac chambered precision rifles than the CheyTac Intervention rifle on the market and maybe the shooter used a (semi) custom built rifle, so it is possible the shooting feat you pointed out does not belong in the CheyTac Intervention article. If the information regarding a new shooting record with the Chey Tac Intervention rifle can be properly referenced, please do so! If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
A tenth of a NATO angular mil (mrad) equals 36.95 cm at 3,695 m, so a 45 cm diameter target circle has only about 1.22 mrad diameter at that range. Significantly larger realistically achievable target circles are practically useless for military sniper rifles mainly intended for cold bore shooting (1 shot, 1 hit) at distant human sized point targets.
You might be interested in viewing some YouTube (advertorial) footage of a 3,400 m "record shoot" with a .408 Chey Tac chambered Lobaev Arms SVLK-14S rifle using a large target. This rifle and feat of course do not belong in the CheyTac Intervention article. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZyZObtJtgU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5m_vBSAFoA. You will notice Mr. Lobaev could not reliably hit a human sized target circle at that range with the employed system.--Francis Flinch (talk) 16:04, 8 December 2015 (UTC)