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Craig Harrison has the furthest recorded confirmed sniper kill from 2,475 m. He struck and killed two Taliban gunners. 1)
Harrison first used a sniper rifle, firing a Dragunov rifle (SVD) on a firing range near the British military base in Split, Croatia. In his autobiography The Longest Kill, Harrison described the rifle as looking like an “elongated AK,” and after firing at a tree, he said it “practically split it in half.” 2)
After returning from Afghanistan in 2009 Craig Harrison suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and was discharged from the army in 2014. 3)