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New Re: shoot back? (slight bad language)
I don't know where, but I recall reading years ago that a person requires 2 to 3 shots for their sense of direction to narrow the focus to the correct area relative to where they are when they hear a gun being fired.

Killing people like this guy has, even hitting people (in the few people who have survived) is an amazing if despicable display of marksmanship.

I don't own a gun, I've never fired one, I'd probably drop any gun (or fall on my butt) when a recoil hit me. I know one person who owned a crossbow. Guns were illegal, but crossbows weren't covered by the laws, and I admire him for that.

I sometimes have violent emotions but I don't (usually) act on them. But this cold-blooded killer, I could shoot or stab this fucker with nothing on my conscience. I don't think this is a violent emotion, just a wish for justice and will someone stop this guy!? For crap's sake, a school bus driver? A kid? A mom?

I dearly hope this guy is killed in a shootout with police, without having to try him, convict him, and execute him (ten or twenty years in the future.) OK call me cynical. Anyone who shoots him in cold blood I hope will not be charged, and if charged with murder, will hopefully be aquitted.
New I hear you
I've let myself be prey to some (admittedly ridiculous)
thinking.

For example: If I drove down there...and just staked out
a spot of my own.......what would be the odds that he would
pick the same one? A geewhillion-to-one? Okay I'll give it try.
Problem is......I suspect the police could do without me and
a few thousand other renegade vigilante-wanna-be's sitting in the
woods with a variety of weapons.

And then.....there is the question of what would I do if I find him.
I can't just shoot somebody....after all I might be wrong. But he
can shoot me! And of course...there's the person who mistakes me for
the sniper. Anyhow.......its all just mind games. Just thought I would
share that this guy has gotten to me too.

I have fired a hunting rifle on a couple of occasions.
The first time I ever fired one I was
surprised not such much by the strength of the recoil...but by the noise it made. It had to have been the loudest thing I had ever heard. Come to think
of it..I was standing beside my buddy who fired before me. It totally scared the
crap out of me. That's when I first learned why it is that people wear the
headgear at the rifle range.

I was a completely crap as a marksman. I couldn't hit a beer can at 100 yards
using a scope and a tree limb for support. My friend would hit every time.
When I asked him what I was doing wrong he said "stop breathing
and learn to control your heart rate". Made no difference. I was still crap.
One thing I learned from him (and this may seem naive of me) was that rifles don't shoot to the same spot every time...even if bolted solid.
There is a certain tolerance tht rifles exhibit......for example...they might put all bullets within a 1.5-inch square at 100 yards.
The more advanced/expensive your setup....the narrower this tolerance becomes
(unless its me doing the firing).....but it is still there.

Anyhow.....I think I'll stop. Don't know much about rifles. But I wish I did.
That way my fantasy of taking out this shithead at 200-300 yards would seem
viable.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
New Re: I hear you
A round like the one used goes so fast that only a strong wind can deflect it significantly. A rifle is so-called because the barrel has "rifling", spiral grooves that impart a spin to the round. The spinning stabilizies the round along the path of flight via the conservation of angular momentum - that is, a large torque is needed to deflect the otherwise (nearly) constant angular momentum.
-drl
     Sniper reporting - (Mike) - (12)
         Re: Sniper reporting - (deSitter) - (1)
             Mega dittoes! - (Brandioch)
         Have to agree... - (bepatient)
         Sniper solution - (gdaustin) - (8)
             Actually.... - (Mike)
             better solution everyone carry rifles and shoot back - (boxley) - (4)
                 Re: shoot back? - (lincoln) - (3)
                     Re: shoot back? (slight bad language) - (wharris2) - (2)
                         I hear you - (Mike) - (1)
                             Re: I hear you - (deSitter)
             Press "issues" - (bepatient)
             Read this book. - (inthane-chan)

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