Golden Age Passport. Description: The Golden Age Passport is a lifetime entrance pass that allows persons, age 62 and. older, to visit national parks, monuments, historic sites, recreation areas and national. wildlife refuges access without paying the customary entrance fee. It also provides a 50.
Billy Dixon, a civilian buffalo hunger, placed a shot with a Sharps .50-90 during the American Indian Wars in June of 1874 that spanned a distance of 1,538 yards. Dixon still ranks in at number 9 on the longest sniper shot list. Not bad for a guy relying on 19th century technology!
His feat blows away the previous American record of 109, set by Army Staff Sgt. Adelbert F. Waldron during the Vietnam war. Carlos Hathcock, the famed Marine sniper who was the subject of the book 'One Shot, One Kill,' killed 93 people as a long-range sniper in Vietnam.