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Deadly ... Craig was using the Army's latest L115A3 sniper rifle

By DAVID WILLETTS, Defence Correspondent

Published: Today
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A CRACK shot saved his Brit commander from two Taliban gunmen by shooting them dead from a world record MILE and a HALF away.

Hero sniper Craig Harrison, 35, nailed the killers with a rifle bullet each as the pair manned a machine gun - then for good measure let rip a third shot that took out their weapon.

His marksmanship was all the more amazing because the enemy were firing on his trapped troop leader from 3,000ft BEYOND his rifle's effective range.



Household Cavalryman Craig, of Cheltenham, Gloucs - who went on to be the scourge of the Taliban by killing a dozen more and wounding seven - said of his record-breaking feat yesterday: "They were firing on the troop commander - I gave them the good news. They didn't f****** like it."

The previous record for a sniper kill was 7,972ft (2,430m) set by a Canadian in Afghanistan eight years ago. Corporal of Horse Craig, armed with the Army's latest L115A3 sniper rifle, beat it by 148ft (45m).

The weapon is designed to be effective up to 1,500 metres. To compensate for the spin and drift of the .338 bullets as they flew 1.54 miles - the length of 25 football pitches - Craig had to aim 6ft high and 20ins to the left. Despite the bullets travelling at almost three times the speed of sound, the married dad of one was so far away it took them 2.64 seconds to reach their targets.

He said: "The first round hit the machinegunner in the stomach.

"The second insurgent grabbed the weapon as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down too. They were both dead."

He added modestly after returning from his tour of duty: "A third shot clipped the weapon - as I was hoping to render it unserviceable."

Craig's patrol - in four Jackal armoured vehicles - was ambushed south of Musa Qala while escorting a contingent of Afghan soldiers, who were on foot. He said: "The patrol was attacked and taking small arms fire. My troop commander Captain Andrew Jelinek went forward to support them. His vehicle got bogged down in a field and started taking fire while we were still parked up on a ridge.

"We saw two insurgents set up a PKM machine gun in a compound and open fire on the commander's wagon." Conditions were "perfect with no wind and clear visibility" as he used a wall to steady his rifle.

During his tour Craig twice cheated death - once when a bullet went right through his helmet. Ten days later his Jackal was blown up by a mine. He was airlifted to the UK with both forearms broken - but insisted on returning to duty just six weeks later.

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Caveadsum

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Ah I do that all the time. This guy I know lives about 2 miles away with an annoying dog, and I just get on my roof and shoot an inch or so of the dog's tail every once in a while.

Seriously though, that's pretty amazing there. With all due respect to Pugsport, I'm ashamed to admit that a Brit has us beat on something.
 

Pugsport

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us Brits may look stupid and weak but its all just a cover up really lol (until it comes to letting people in our country and giving them ours house and money etc then we are push overs), we only do hardcore shit hence why i can not use the non hardcore cod4 servers lol.

i wanna be doing stuff like that but due to having a messed up back im not able to get in the army which is a shame. i always find it funny when you see some1 like this in the street or some where and talk to them about it they always say something like its what i payed to do or its all in a day work etc but i see it as a bit more than that to be fair. i think most people would have been left thinking what do i do if something like that happend and then if you do think of it it gonna take loads of skill to blank out whats going on and just take them out
 

Caveadsum

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Yeah well the Brits aren't that bad. As for letting people into our country like you said, I'm not sure who you're talking about but over here we got the same problem. But that just shows you that it's not just the training. The Marines have the finest training in the world, but that's not what gives you a clear head and quick reactions. That takes a special kind of guy that you just don't find every day. Oh and another way you have us beat, accents. Ours are atrocious. Maybe I just should have been born in the English aristocracy a couple hundred years ago. I have absolutely perfect diction.
 
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