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Old 31st Jan 2007, 23:12
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SASless
 
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Which video is that where the shooters with the .50 cal rifles are Blackwater staff?
Granted the .50 cal is very effective in that role....similar effect to potting Praire Dogs with a .30-338. They grow to be nine feet long when hit about navel high. (the Praire Dogs that is....)

Read up on the capability of a Barratt .50 caliber rifle using Raufoss rounds....pretty scary stuff if you are on the receiving end of it. A Canadian sniper scored a hit on a Taliban rifleman at a range over 2000 meters.

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