"Joe" wrote in news:1164138849.325757.322780
@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

Rumor is some canook is sending out video's of a couple ranchers
shooting praire dogs in Montana and claming it is a Candian Sniper
killing terrorists in Afganastan.

My side still aching from laughing. This crazy Canook is saying a
Canadian sniper in Afghanistan has been confirmed as hitting an enemy
soldier at a range of 2,310 meters, the longest recorded and confirmed
sniper shot in history. The previous record of 2,250 meters was set by
US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam in 1967.

Keep dreaming Canaduh, you will never out shoot Americans.

What part of recorded and confirmend don't you get?

In March 2002 during Operation Anaconda, a five-man sniper team from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light
Infantry set two new world records for farthest combat kill with a rifle. First, Master Cpl. Arron Perry broke the
old record by hitting an al-Qaeda forward observer from a distance of 2,310 metres (over 1.43 miles). Days
later, Perry's sniper teammate Cpl. Rob Furlong set the current world record by firing a shot from a .50 cal
McMillan Tac-50 sniper rifle that killed an al-Qaeda soldier at an estimated distance of 2,430 metres (over 1.5
miles).[1] Both shots surpassed the long-standing previous world record of 2,250 metres (over 1.39 miles) set
by U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War.

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia's_Canadian_Light_Infantry

I'm not sure what that has to do with sailing though?