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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Canada is big and sparse, of course we are.

But, what is a mile?
- An overcompensated kilometer.
- It's an SI-derived unit equivalent to 8 furlongs
- what is a mile?
  
  1600 large baguette.
- He had 6000 feet?
  
  He’s either amazing at walking or incapable of it… 🤔
- About 1,500 liters of maple syrup
- 1 mile is 5280 feet
  
  how many football fields is that?
- He was an incredible trumpeter and compose. Feet, though?
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.
trained by Finns?
- As of the 2016 census, there are 143,645 Canadians of Finnish ancestry.
  
  And we did just pick a Finnish rifle to equip the Canadian Rangers with
Marksmanship is quite popular up here
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.
Whose feet? 🦶

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