Five days earlier, the laser range finder had given him 253 yards distance-totarget, and the

awesome power of his gun meant the heavy bullet would fly virtually flat, ensuring he would hit his target without having to compensate, or in sniper-speak 'allow for the mark', by having to raise his aim to offset gravitys effect on the bullet. Bullets fired from a gun aimed parallel with the ground, fall at the same speed they drop from a hand; so the height of eight storeys was a blessing, as the bullets descent is always calculated on the horizontal plane, while he was shooting downhill at a forty degree angle. He didnt want to make the classic rifleman error of shooting high over the mark, when aiming down at his target. In the end, he decided on a 11/4 inch offset, then even if he was wrong, it would make very little difference. To further enhance the accuracy of the rifle, it had a Boss screw on the end. To the untrained eye a silencer. It tuned the barrel so that it always flexed in exactly the same way when fired, neatly removing the ability of the bending barrel from fractionally altering the path of his bullet. When the Remington engineers' first bench tested the gun, they were surprised to see it would shoot a 0.5-inch wide group of three bullets at 200 yards, and, given the bullet itself was 0.3 inches wide, that effectively meant three bullets through the same hole. High tech, state-of-the-art, his rifle packed mind-stunning punch delivering a heavy 200 grain bullet, easily capable of felling a large elk or grizzly bear at 500 yards, while only dropping eighteen inches over the distance. 'Thats right, son, the salesman had said proudly. With