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Anyone Else Surprised or Disappointed That Harry
Mira:
--- Quote from: StrayDog on October 13, 2020, 02:36:31 PM ---Pretty much the only thing I agree with there is that Harry named Ivy. JB can write Kincaid so amazingly perfect of an assassin that he can prognosticate all wind currents, bird paths, etc in a mile long ballistic flight but anybody who's done shooting will scream BS. Even JB constantly talks about ballistic flight in combat, same applies.
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Perhaps, but we don't know how far away Kincaid was when he made the shot, or what kind of rifle and scope used. Kincaid is also a scion, which also may be a factor, he doesn't have human limitations though he appears human. Apparently though, a good sniper can be deadly from pretty far away. Found this about the longest distance kill.
--- Quote ---3,540 metres
A Canadian special forces sniper has broken the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot. The soldier shot an IS militant dead from 3,540 metres, which is just over two miles away, in Iraq last month.Jun 23, 2017
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The_Sibelis:
Hundreds of years practice I'd bet he can do it by feel. Most military snipers can and they don't have nearly the span of time to practice as he had. Heck, lee harvey oswald made three shots and had two on target(within a span of seconds) from a block away with one of the most inaccurate rifles available (the bullets were famous for tumbling I'm air) and the previous record before the above one was a little over a mile iirc.
*No scope either, he used the iron sights iirc
Rigil Kent:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on October 13, 2020, 04:10:22 PM ---Heck, lee harvey oswald made three shots and had two on target(within a span of seconds) from a block away with one of the most inaccurate rifles available (the bullets were famous for tumbling I'm air) and the previous record before the above one was a little over a mile iirc.
*No scope either, he used the iron sights iirc
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What are you talking about? That was the Comedian! :P
StrayDog:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on October 13, 2020, 04:10:22 PM ---Hundreds of years practice I'd bet he can do it by feel. Most military snipers can and they don't have nearly the span of time to practice as he had. Heck, lee harvey oswald made three shots and had two on target(within a span of seconds) from a block away with one of the most inaccurate rifles available (the bullets were famous for tumbling I'm air) and the previous record before the above one was a little over a mile iirc.
*No scope either, he used the iron sights iirc
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Aiming center mass and plenty of people will argue with you about who shot who from where, they've been doing so for over 50 years now.
@Mira
Never said Kincaid couldn't hit him, Kincaid would never have attempted to place a head shot. Maybe place high center mass but never head. Glad you Googled longest sniper kill, his first shot hit the ground and none of the soldiers noticed so didn't react. Both shots were aimed center mass.
If Ivy knew ahead of time then why didn't she just require Kincaid to guard her somewhere else? Pretty sure he can't be in two places at once but that will be argued. She chooses to have Harry mortally wounded and in Mab's hands while barely hanging on to life?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 13, 2020, 01:48:48 PM ---Why? She never knew her mother, while both Harry and Kincaid were the only two people that acknowledged that she even was a human child. Until she met Harry at the age of seven or so she didn't have a name other than, "the Archive." And no, it wasn't a hard shot for Kincaid, he isn't totally human lets not forget. His fear about doing a chest shot is Harry would live long enough to throw his death curse at him.
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The Archive knew everything according to Luccio in small favor:
--- Quote ---“Ivy doesn’t,” Luccio agreed. “Her grandmother was killed in a freak accident, an automobile crash, I believe. Her mother was a seventeen-year-old girl who was in love, and pregnant. She hated her mother for dying and cursing her to carry the Archive when she wanted to have her own life—and she hated the child for having a lifetime of freedom ahead of her. Ivy’s mother killed herself rather than carry the Archive.”
I started feeling a little sick. “And Ivy knows it.”
“She does. Knows it, feels it. She was born knowing exactly what her mother thought and felt about her.”
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Just because someone is not totally human does not mean he has no feelings. It just does not always work the same way as for most humans though with humans there is also a wide variety.
But the ned to paback that favor was al important.
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