User blog comment:Apepa/British Army Sniper sets new record for farthest kill/@comment-1848120-20100504154927

If he was using a mil-dot reticle, and one mil-dot out from the crosshair is equal to 3.6" at 100 yards, one can extrapolate that to 36" at 1000, but since the shot was at 2700 yards, you have to multiply 36 by 2.7 (since 1000 goes into 2700 2.7 times, obviously), which gives you 97" roughly, or 8.1 feet. At 2700 yards, that means the wind only made him compensate LESS than a single mil-dot on the reticle.   That's not much windage if you ask me.  But, at that distance, i'll agree that he had considerable amount of luck.

Now, that did that had to aim 55' to the left, he's boss.