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!
Killing shot made at distance of 2,430 metres. Stephen Thorne. Canadian Press. A world-record killing shot by a Canadian sniper detachment in Afghanistan could never have been made with the ammunition they were issued when they left Edmonton last winter, the triggerman said in a recent interview. The Canadian .50-calibre rounds have a maximum range of between 2,200 and 2,300 metres.