where is the chicken icon???

sully I agree....pulling a trigger may not be hard (never done it) but hitting a target at that range in a split decision HAS to be difficult

I thought all Texans knew how to shoot a gun...

You just aim high Of course, a lot depends on what gun your shooting

Well, you usually adjust to compensate for the bullet drop. Don't forget windage, it's a big deal. Trigger control. Temperature, humidity, i'm sure you get the picture...

Aim high is ironically the airforce motto...lol Not sure if you intended to make the pun or not.

Is that with the M-24 or the Mk-11 (SR-25)?

Average shot, but one hell of a shot given the position of the target alongside distance. I was always partial to the M-14, it has a comfortable scope and hell of a distance coverage. Next would be the M-24 since it is relatively the same weapon.

<~~~~~308 Norma Mag....sighted in at 150 yds....drops 22 inches at 600yds with 168 gr boattail hollow points...can consistently shoot a pattern 3" in dia at 600 yds from a bench rest. Not hard, just takes practice and concentration

I'll sit here with my Nerf gun that drivin gave me and watch you guys

I was in the infantry in the marines and shooting someone in combat is never easy, takes training, timing, breathing, and you don't have time to think about any of it. @ 725 yards with iron sights or the M4's ****ty little scope is difficult. I doubt the bullet went in his ass or hit him at all if it detonated the bomb it must have hit it directly or went through his arm, even a .50 cal won't go through someones whole torso at point blank range and come out with enough power to detonate an IED.

For starters a toast to a fellow soldier.

Secondly if the shot was taken with a 5.56mm (.223 cal) bullet you are totally right. The odds are very slim of this happening.

A 7.62mm (.308 cal) round could very possibly do this depending on where the man was hit. If she managed to get him in between the pelvis bones there isn't much to slow the bullet down. Especially if it exited before entering the thoracic cavity. (I wouldn't have to pass through any ribs.) In fact even if with went through the ribs you are looking at the possibility of it passing in between. The bullet may not have hit the IED, or maybe it hit just the IED, who knows. Either way the man may have made a mistake when arming it, or after arming it as well which may have been influenced buy the gun shot wound.

I have seen senarios where insurgents placing IEDs ended up blowing themselves up in the process do to simple error.

Now, a .50 cal round is no joke at all. I have cut down full grown trees with a .50 cal machine gun. In Iraq, I have also seen rounds from a .50 cal pierce through the engine block of a car, go through a target in the front seat, another in the back seat, and exit the trunk. Granted there were multiple shots fired, but that scene proved to me that human bodies to not affectively slow that bullet by much. So yeah, a .50 cal, could definitely have enough force to penetrate all bones necessary and have enough force to detonate the IED, especially at that range.

You still maybe right. I doubt there was an investigative autopsy done on the insurgent so we will never know for sure...

Ditto. Here's to you, my Bro's. A .50 cal round from the M2 Browning is intended to pierce armor plating up to two inches thick, and is not the best round to choose if aiming at troops on foot. Now if she had the .50 cal rifle, that's a diff story. It has all the kick-ass, knock-down power of the armor piercing round, due to it's size, but is ...lol.. enemy troop friendly (ok, bad pun).

The .01% I had mentioned earlier was in lateral gain/loss, not in elevation. Off by just that little at a distance of 725 yards, your round will hit about 7 feet to the target's side.