THESE PICTURES STARTED making the rounds yesterday.
While they’re unauthenticated, it is nearly certain there were snipers at the biggest sporting event of the year.
Jerry Jones said as much in Dallas before last year’s Super Bowl ”We’ve got a lot of places for snipers in here,” he told CNN. Ashton Kutcher also filmed a pair of snipers at the 2009 Super Bowl (via Deadspin)
And that is one of the newest sniper rifles in America’s arsenal, the XM 2010. Manufactured by Remington and released in 2010, the XM 2010 is the product of a long string of modifications to the 22 year-old M24 sniper rifle.
The XM2010 was designed specifically to be effective in the high altitude long distance fighting in Afghanistan.
To provide quiet, pinpoint accuracy at up to 1200 meters the XM 2010 carries more gun powder in the bullets it fires, has a flash suppressor, sound suppressor, and a thermal sleeve to hide the warm barrel from FLIR.
When US Snipers graduate from the five-week school at Fort Benning, Ga. they are capable of hitting a man-sized target nine out of ten times at 600 meters — over a third of a mile away with this rifle.
We’ll update this post when the new information becomes available about their origin.
Pics: 4chan
Should be a great match to get the league up and running. Two quality sides with a hint of experimentation for both it seems.
@Robb Stark: easy win for limerick dey have the first team out no experimention at all.
@Jim: Barry Hennessy, Tom Condon, Robbie Hanly, Barry Nash, David Reidy and David Dempsey are not regular starters if Limerick have their best team out. So that is not Limerick first team
@Decko49: thats the startin bunch for this year. U might not like it.
@Jim: big knowledge of Limerick hurling there Jim??
@Jim: Where will Sean Finn, Declan Hannon, Gearoid Hegarty Will O Donoghue? Peter Casey all be?
@A Cos: Yeah he knows a lot alright.
@Decko49: on the bench
@Jim: You’d want to stay off the drugs and or drink at this time of the day kid.
@Decko49: sorry i forgot your the expert on here now. Joined a few months ago was it??
@Jim: No you’re the expert on Limerick and you haven’t a clue. So don’t try be smart. Come back the first day of the championship and of I’m wrong I will apologise. If you’re wrong Will you?
@Jim: go way and have a lie down…ur makin an ape outta urself
@john williams: Shur he has the limerick team named for the championship already. Kiely will be livid that Jim has leaked this to the media
@Decko49: we saw the limerick team last night. They only hav the bare 15 and all the talk.
@Jim: Haha. Jesus you’re a gas man. Wait til May for the championship team to be named and will show what you know about hurling. I bet you won’t be in here to say you were wrong.
No bubbles
@Tony Mcgrath: they might be a bit flat with no bubbles.
@Tony Mcgrath: busy with auld wans
@john williams: Yeah I hear he likes the mother’s alright. Great for team building
Will Gerry Kelly of BorrisIleigh get the call up this year?
@Tom Turnip: Interesting comment I figure he would cause quite a few problems for any backline.