You must factor in Ft/s, the weight of the bullet in flight, the affects of momentum and air resistance. Keep in mind the basic law of a object in motion tends to stay in motion.

.338 leaves the barrel at 3000ft/s, and does not drop to under 2000Ft/s for just under 1000 yards. So even out to 1000 yards you only see 1" deflection, and wont see more than another 10" of deflection tell it hits almost twice that. So once it gets out around the 8000 foot mark, it drops exponentially due to its velocity being under 1200Ft/s, still quite deadly however. In fact it should remain deadly down to around 800Ft/s (about the speed of a .22)

 

.45ACP is around 800fps in a lot of rounds too...

 

Well here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_ballistics

You can bet this guy and his spotter had sat through a few lessons on this.

 

We all know only one man has EVER sniped a moving target from a helicopter, ok... So we need to just put this **** to rest!

 

hahahahah

 

Billy Zane is a sniper?

 

Yup, in this movie at least:


ahh... Love that movie.

 

LOL



P.S. Did you want to punch him in the face in that movie too?

 

He's Billy Zane, of course!

 

No - I wanted someone to shoot him in the face from 8000 ft away

 

I prefer The Shooter