In a latest installment of the SOFREP sequence, “Contained in the Crew Room,” host Aaron “Rad” Radl sat down with former Navy SEAL sniper instructors Brandon Webb and Charlie Melton to speak coaching, fight, and their transition into civilian life.
After leaving service, Melton made headlines a number of years in the past when he led a group of precision shooters to beat out the Russian-held lengthy vary capturing world file with a whopping 2.84 mile shot utilizing an Armalite AR-30 chambered in “.408 Tejas.”
On this clip, Melton mentions that he carried the .50 on one mission simply so he may say he did. That one mission got here up once more quickly, when Rad requested Melton about his fight experiences and Melton drops one hell of a conversational bomb… he shot somebody with the .50 cal on the extremely brief distance of nearly 60 yards.
As fellow SEAL sniper Brandon Webb places it, “that’s like utilizing a sledge hammer to drive ending nails.
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