Navy SEAL Sniper: An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st Century by Glen Doherty & Brandon Webb

Author:Glen Doherty & Brandon Webb
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-01-02T23:00:00+00:00

The Accuracy International’s AS50 semiauto .50 BMG; the acronym designates this as a Browning machine gun .50-cal round, but it’s also known as the “Badass Mackdaddy Gun.” (Accuracy International)

The spread created by MOA (Reeds Target Shooting Club)

At one hundred yards, 1 minute of angle creates a spread of 1.0472 inches; in most shooting literature, 1 MOA is usually rounded as 1 inch at one hundred yards. The spread created by MOA increases linearly as you go further from the muzzle, i.e., 2 inches at two hundred yards, 3 inches at three hundred yards, and 10 inches at one thousand yards.

Rifles, especially precision rifles, are advertised to be capable of shooting a certain MOA, the lower the number the better. Most commercial hunting rifles shoot 2 MOA or greater.

A 2-MOA hunting rifle would at best be capable of shooting a three-to-five-shot group into a two-inch circle at one hundred yards, a four-inch circle at two hundred yards, or a ten-inch circle at five hundred yards. If you are shooting an elk, which has a kill zone of twenty-four inches, this accuracy is acceptable, as long as you can center the shot somewhere within the kill zone.

Imagine you are called upon to take an eight-hundred-yard shot with that same 2-MOA rifle. At eight hundred yards, 2 MOA translates into sixteen inches. The average male torso at the shoulders is twenty inches, tapering to twelve inches mid-chest. The average human head measures six to seven inches in width, and eight to ten inches in height. With those target dimensions, a sixteen-inch spread doesn’t give you much margin of error!

Obviously, making an accurate shot with this rifle would require a lot of skill—and a fair amount of luck. Suddenly the rifle that served you well while hunting deer could easily cause you to miss your target, or worse, take out a friendly.

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