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The Canadian Department of National Defence has confirmed that a Canadian sniper has broken the record for longest confirmed sniper shot in military history.

The soldier, a member of Canada’s elite Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2) special forces unit deployed to Iraq, targeted and killed an Islamic State fighter in Mosul at a distance of almost three and a half kilometres.

“The Canadian Special Operations Command can confirm that a member of the Joint Task Force 2 successfully hit a target from 3,540 metres,” the Department of National Defence confirmed in a statement to Global News.
“For operational security reasons and to preserve the safety of our personnel and our Coalition partners, we will not discuss precise details on when and how this incident took place.”

The extreme distance shot shatters the previous record of 2, 475 yards (2263 m) set by British Corporal Craig Harrison in Afghanistan in 2009. Canadian soldiers currently claim three of the top five longest confirmed shots ever recorded in the history of warfare.

Oh that's hunting alright.... pretty effin' badass. 10 second flight time.

Tanner

Anyone know which bullet and what its velocity was?

There's a thread on the hunters campfire, IIRC, a 50 caliber 750 grain bullet at somewhere around 2800.

Edited to add, I'm not sure where I read about the 750 grain bullet, maybe my brain filled in that information. I looked up the 750 grain Amax and it has a BC of 1.05.

Yeah. Combat sniping is as "hunting as it gets"

3,871 yards is a long poke. I wonder what scope he had on the weapon? Very Impressive..
And I thought 1,000 yards was a long way..

That is some nice shooting.