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dustpuppy@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 个月前

Seems that Canadians have the reputation as the world's best snipers, deadly at more than a mile. And a Ukrainian recently pulled off a shot over 6000 feet. You can't hide from these guys. Just sayin

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Seems that Canadians have the reputation as the world's best snipers, deadly at more than a mile. And a Ukrainian recently pulled off a shot over 6000 feet. You can't hide from these guys. Just sayin

dustpuppy@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 个月前
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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    Canada is big and sparse, of course we are.

    But, what is a mile?

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      How’d that Ukrainian get 3000 people to lie down for him to shoot over their feet? That’s never going to work in a combat situation.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        It’s easy if you’re a good shot; you just kill 3000 enemy combatants in a line and then shoot the 3001st over their feet.

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          deleted by creator

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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            Ukraine could be done with this whole thing if light grenades were real.

          • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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            This image reminds me of both catch 22 and slaughterhouse 5.

        • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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          I like the the way you think.

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      An overcompensated kilometer.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      what is a mile?

      1600 large baguette.

    • easily3667@lemmus.org
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      It’s an SI-derived unit equivalent to 8 furlongs

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      He had 6000 feet?

      • whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        He’s either amazing at walking or incapable of it… 🤔

    • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today
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      He was an incredible trumpeter and compose. Feet, though?

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      About 1,500 liters of maple syrup

    • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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      1 mile is 5280 feet

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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        how many football fields is that?

        • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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          It’s 7320 poutines. I’m not sure about football fields.

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          14.666666…

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    Iirc The best Sniper in WW1 was a Canadian (An indigenous one to) then came the white death who best his record in Finland, then a Canadian sniper beat him while serving in the middle east

    Correct me if I’m wrong, I might have my facts mixed up.

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      The Canadians in the middle-east were called the “greatest snipers” by members of the US military - multiple kills over a mile (5280 ft or 1.6 km) but a Ukrainian sniper recently made a shot at well over 6000 ft. Would love to plant a little nervousness in that Orange Chump

      • epicstove@lemmy.ca
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        RIGHT I forgot about the Ukrainian sniper.

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    trained by Finns?

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      As of the 2016 census, there are 143,645 Canadians of Finnish ancestry.

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        And we did just pick a Finnish rifle to equip the Canadian Rangers with

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          Fuckin deadly!

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          Call in a Canadian to Finnish the job.

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    Marksmanship is quite popular up here

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    Yeah, those records always omit that it’s thousands of bullets sprayed over the vast distance with one coincidentally hitting.

    There’s a saying that amateurs talk tactics, experts talk logistics and idiots talk about weapons. Marksmanship probably falls in at the same level with tactics.

    Edit: Lol, boo all you want, it’s true.

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    Whose feet? 🦶

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