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You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. In one Dodge truck commercial, the guy wakes up to the sound of a cricket chirping, in the middle of the night, across a babbling brook, and silences it with a single accurate shot with a compound bow in between chirps.

See the commercial here. An advert on ESPN America, to coincide with the first Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey, Jr. Killzone 2 's "Bullet" commercial, shows a single shot from a standard rifle flying across a chaotic battlefield. Going through a melee, and passes an enemy sniper before hitting an officer who just so happens to be turning in the eye. Kikyo performs several impressive feats of marksmanship with her arrows, a skill that isn't passed on to Kagome at first, but by the end of the series Kagome is able to shoot moving targets while keeping herself balanced on Inuyasha's back, hit tiny shards of the sacred jewel hidden within a enemy's body with pin-point accuracy, and eventually shoot a target even if a person or wall is in the way, without the arrow hitting that person or wall.

Sango also fits into this category seeing as she's able to hit a mark with her enormous boomerang with incredible accuracy, even when it is on the rebound. Made even more improbable, by the fact that they were flintlock pistols. While an odd example, Ataru Moroboshi usually uses a frying pan to block Jariten's fire breath and to hit him away, usually a few blocks. In one episode, Jariten's mother visits, and he tries to get a carnation for her, only to be delayed by many bizarre circumstances that you get used to when watching this show.

In an act that might be considered kindness, Ataru hits Jariten with the frying pan, who goes flying Please note that Ten's mother was at least a mile away, which makes Ataru more or less as accurate as a sniper JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Hol Horse's Stand basically grants him Improbable Aiming Skills, as he can control where the bullet goes after he's fired it.

And yet he never manages to hit anyone that wasn't retconned back to life with said homing bullets. Even further along the timeline is Guido Mista, whose Sex Pistols Stand kicks the bullets he fires out of a gun.

If he doesn't feed them first they won't work and also will sometimes beat each other up. In Jura TripperTiger shoots a saddle latch, causing it to rip and release the saddle. From a flying dinosaur. Mana Tatsumiya in Mahou Sensei Negima! Similarly Gandolfini, one of the mage-teachers, was capable of intercepting an incoming bullet and hitting it head-on with one of his own.

One of the Dr. Hell's Mechanical Beasts Jenova M9 could shoot down anything as far as one hundred kilometres away.

Baron Ashura decided to try out its aim -by shooting down a passenger plane. The king of Improbable Marksmanship, however, is probably Vash the Stampede.

Capable of putting a bullet down the barrel of a sniper's BFG from a kilometer or so away. Earlier in the series, he attends a quick-draw contest, and is able to ensure that every hit is non-lethal by flicking pebbles at the bullets in-flight and altering their course. In the same contest, he tries to get out of the qualifying round by intentionally missing the targets; he fails. I hit them all Bullseye, the Psycho for Hire Professional Killer who serves as the Arch-Nemesis to Daredevilwho mixes this with a physics-defying ability to propel projectiles to turn a variety of mundane household objects into Improvised Weapons.

Among the objects Bullseye has used to kill people: He rarely stoops so low as to use an actual gun. Taking it Up to Elevenone comic has him saying that the prison he's in has him on stool softeners and a liquid diet for fear that if he has a solid BM, he'll weaponize that. And he would, too. Putting this through Serial Escalation to make an awesome moment is a two-part mini-series called Bullseye: The series revolves around the fact that Bullseye is so bored, he takes an entire year off to kill one guy in the most spectacular fashion possible.

The target is a baseball player, so Bullseye becomes a pitcher. When their teams face off, Bullseye creates a perfect gameby clipping his own team beforehand in ways ranging from throwing a speck of dirt into an eye to cause an infection to killing someone with a thrown battery and striking out every batter so the score is 0 to 0 in the last inning, with his target about to strike out. Too bad the umpire called the last pitch a ball.

In Sinister Spider-ManBullseye uses a yapping dog to the eye to distract Venom. Even more amazingly, the dog lived afterwards. Bedovian, a Yellow Lantern and John Stewart, a Green Lantern. The two of them are capable of sniping each other from three space sectors away. Just to give you an idea of how big a sector is, the entire universe is divided into sectors by the Green Lantern Corps. A conservative estimate would put the size of a sector in the several hundreds of thousands of lightyears.

Stewart and Bedovian weren't necessarily hundreds of thousands of light years away from each other in that instance. The space sectors into which the universe is divided are wedges, with each wedge narrowing as one approaches Oa, the center of the universe. Thus, the closer one gets to Oa, the less distance one has to travel to cross any three sectors.

At the time of the sniping incident, Stewart was on or very close to Oa and, if Bedovian was also fairly close to Oa, they may have been shooting across three sectors without being all that far from each other while not quite as incredible, the distance would still be pretty impressive. While all The Minutemen from Bullets wield handguns with deadly accuracy; Minuteman Willie Tymes never misses. His fellow agents gave him a nickname "My first shot is my last. He can shoot off the firing pin of a derringer tinier than a pinky — and do so faster than his shadow.

At another point, he goes into a saloon and shoots seemingly random holes into a roll of waxed paper. Then he puts the roll and a coin into the player piano Please note that Lucky Luke is a parody, so his skills are meant to be impossibly amazing, just like the bad guys are meant to be impossibly stupid. From both The DCU and Marvel Universeself-trained superhero archers Green Arrow and Hawkeyeand their families of characters, can ricochet arrows off walls and into targets. And that's not even getting into "boxing glove arrows", "bomb arrows", "net arrows" or "cat arrows" don't ask.

They have, at times, been depicted as so implausibly good, some people theorize that they actually have psychokinesis and are simply using it to show off by making it look like they're the world's greatest archers. The fact that the artists and writers of their titles usually don't do very much research into how archers actually even hold their bows drives it home for a lot of people. The Dark Knight ReturnsGreen Arrow has lost an arm and still manages to be a crackshot.

Green Arrow once lost both arms he got better and still managed to pull off a shot by bracing the bow with his feet and pulling the arrow back with his teeth. In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Hawkeye is an expert marksman who chooses to use a bow because of the challenge. He was shown to be deadly with anything he could throw, even killing a room full of armed guards while strapped down to a chair by flicking his fingernails.

He did mention at some point that it was not only practise, but that his vision was artificially enhanced. At one point he runs out of arrows and starts shooting piece of rebar at people.

It's such typical behavior that no one even mentions it. When they deployed and expanded, the thugs they were facing got to fight in the shade.

Every single one was taken down non-fatally. Hawkeye simply said he never hits what he wasn't aiming for. This was during a motorcycle chase. Not to mention in the alternate future Old Man Loganwhere Hawkeye is blind, yet just as good, managing to get three gangsters in the mouth with three arrows just by listening to where they are.

In the Sin City story Hell and Backa sniper has a rifle with telescopic sights mounted on a tripod. He misses, the good guy, Wallace, returns fire, across a street, into a darkened building with a short-barreled revolver.

His bullet goes down the telescopic sight and through the snipers eye into his brain. Both Sin City and The Badger have featured a character throwing an object with such accuracy that it plugs the barrel of an enemy's gun.

What wouldn't a darts player give to be able to throw like that? Daredevil has also done the plugging-a-gun and surely Bullseye too.

Frank Miller really likes these feats, doesn't he? Allan Quartermain gained access to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen mostly by virtue of his Improbable Aiming Skills. At least he's got the good grace to use a rifle. The film version did, at least; in the comic, Allan is considered valuable for his experience in adventuring more than anything else, and his signature weapon is an elephant gun and, later, a custom-made double-barreled shotgun — firearms that are very hard to miss with.

In the film, he also manages to teach Tom Sawyer to shoot just as accurately, which proves useful in taking out the Big Bad. Interestingly, the film also shows that Quartermain's vision isn't what it used to be. He needs glasses, but can still shoot just as precisely.

Blade is pretty damn handy with, you guessed it blades. Tossing his daggers down the barrel of guns or pinning people to walls by their clothes is a breeze. When sneaking up on a vampire about to bite a woman, Blade threw a stake that knocked the vampire's teeth clean out of his mouth!

And Blade claims he can amputate insects with his knives. The Saint of Killers from Preacher has magical they were made from the sword of the Angel of Death revolvers that cannot miss, never run out of bullets, never jam, never inflict anything less than a fatal wound, and can be drawn faster than the eye can see.

Given that he's also completely invulnerablegetting on his bad side or, for that matter, getting close to him is not recommended. In the final issue he kills God with his guns Deadshota gun-wielding assassin and sometimes Antihero from The DCUhas a long-standing reputation for never missing his shot unless he happens to be aiming at Batman. In a Suicide Squad miniseries, he took out six targets scattered around a room while blindfolded.

Not only this, but he has ricocheted his bullets off poles, while turned around, and hit each target with perfect accuracy. Earlier in the same series, he failed to shoot a target in the bullseye while blindfolded Admittedly using Super Speedbut still. In The Outsiderswhile in a prison riot, Captain Boomerang Jr. One of the only times Deadshot did miss, it was in his youth, a tree branch he was standing on snapped under him, and what should have been a disarming shot became a kill shot. The person he unintentionally killed was his beloved older brother.

Supermanin one comic, pretends to be a villain named the Golden Dartkidnaps Lois Lane, and throws darts at her. His Improbable Aiming Skills allow him to keep himself from hitting Lois, instead missing her by "scant inches". Thanks to her telescopic vision, Supergirl has literal super-aim.

In a Silver Age comic she hits her target from space. Kid Twist, a particularly slimy individual from Joss Whedon 's run on Runawayshas this as a power: This includes casually firing his gun behind him, and having the bullet turn corners. When Nate's not looking, he lets it fly and nails a dragonfly so that the pebble knocks the body dead-center, leaving the wings on either side. The Archer Strongbow of ElfQuest never misses, to the point that when he does it's an obvious sign that he's in a bad way psychologically.

And shortly after recovering from that, he gets the ability to hit a target without even seeing it, though he's assumed to owe that to magical help. Since Cyclops of the X-Men is using Eye Beamsyou'd expect him to have very little trouble hitting whatever he can see. That doesn't explain his ability to pull off such shots as precision-stunning Professor X after ricocheting the beam around three corners or destroying six fast-moving targets, at least two of them behind him, with a single shot.

It's been officially stated that Cyclops's mutant ability includes an intuitive knowledge of how to ricochet his own optic blasts. In old comics, this was attributed to his spending most of his training time in the Danger Room practicing how to pull off ricochets and other trick shots with his eyebeam. It even joked that he's one hell of a pool player. The X-Men Noir series recasts him as an ace gunman, thus having him play out a more typical version of this trope.

Not only that, but he's an actual Cyclops, sporting a possibly blind, possibly glass left eye. Kris de Valnor from Thorgal is reputed as a deadly archer and proves it many times through the series. However, Thorgal himself can top her feats when pressed.

In one instance he won a Duel to the Death by firing two arrows at once. One of them hit the villain while the other collided with his crossbow bolt in mid-air.

Arrowette of Young Justicewho is probably not a member of the Green Arrow Clan, was once shown having a conversation with her mother the first Arrowette while playing darts. The camera pans back to show a line of darts driven into each other point to tail, Robin Hood style, from the first, dead center on the target. The ladies decide they really need to find a different game to compete with. In a Donald Duck classic, one of the nephews manages to deflect Donald's golf ball into a hole-in-one by rapidly firing several shots at it.

With a toy airgun. Which he just happened to bring with him. To the golf course. Wolverine has demonstrated this by first throwing a dart, and hitting a perfect bullseye, turning away from the dartboard and sitting down at a table, throwing his remaining two darts behind his shoulder, where they both managed to hit the bullseye as well.

When challenged to get 3 bullseyes again, he stood up and stacked the darts on each other. He has also thrown a katana with his left hand he's right handed at an attacking stuka plane, hit the pilot in his side, causing him to crash and burn. He has said that he can put six shots through a quarter, and still have change left for a gum machine. And, of course, there's Captain America 's ability in throwing his shield to hit multiple targets by means of ricochetingand still come back to his grasp.

Though, in early issues of the Avengers, the "coming back" part was explained by little magnets on the shield and on his gloves. This was later retconned into simply being the product of lots and lots of practice; when John Walker was brought in to replace him as Captain America, it took weeks of training with the Taskmaster for him to even be able to throw it reliably; he never figured out how to get it to ricochet or hit multiple targets or come back to him after being thrown.

Tony Stark later noted how embarrassed he was for bragging about the magnets he'd put on Cap's shield, and how Steve was enough of a gentleman to never say a word about it. The only other person who could match Steve's ability with the shield including the ricocheting is Hawkeye.

The Great Ten's Celestial Archer is capable of freaking ridiculous feats with this. He can shoot out the sun and hit a target on the other side of the world. In his defense, his bow is a weapon of the gods and thus is inherently capable of doing that kind of thing. In his first appearance in the pages of JLAthe villain Prometheus fired a bullet at Catwoman from one of his gauntlet-guns. The Huntress shot the bullet out of midair with a crossbow bolt.

This is a woman who, when introduced, was just a schoolteacher who worked out a lot. In Wantedthe Killer, who is clearly a Captain Ersatz of Bullseye and Deadshot, is so great a shot that he decides to pack it in the first time he misses a target from less than a half-mile away. His son, Wesley, inherits the power, which allows him to shoot flies out of midair, deflect bullets with a knife, and shoot people between the eyes without looking at them.

Usagi Yojimbo In an early episode, the hero is attacked by a ruffian who is so dirty that flies swarm around him. That is, before the attack. A second's worth of flashing steel later all the flies are lying on the floor, split in half.

Except for the last one that's been filleted. In another issue at a carnival, samurai Usagi cannot hit a target while Rich Bitch turned Defrosting Ice Queen Kiku gets a bull's eye on her first try. She explains that she "just aimed everywhere except the target.

Of course, the jury's out at the end of the story on whether the shot counts if the ball goes through their neighbor's driveway's hoop instead of their own Peter throws a baseball and hits a can on a post, dislodging the mouse inside. Cut to Peter talking to Jason in catcher getup about how that would be impressive if he was aiming for it. Lampshaded in another, as Jason fires a water balloon from a slingshot. It travels quite a distance including over desert and icebergs before falling.

Cut to Jason aiming again at Paige five feet in front of him complaining about how hard it is to aim. Former Green Arrow sidekick Roy Harper, aka Speedy aka Arsenal aka Red Arrow aka Arsenal againboasts that he never misses — boasts that he can back up.

During the Rise of Arsenal storyline, Roy, in a fit of rage, stricken with grief, addled with drugs, and handicapped by his unfamiliar cybernetic arm, breaks his bow, throws it at a bullseye — and hits it dead center. Even when doped up, handicapped, and mentally unbalanced, he never misses. Note that right before this he had missed every actual shot he took with the bow. Or to show that he was so messed up he was overthinking his shots. Resident Action Girl Dani Moonstar of the New Mutantswith her arm broken, uses her one good hand and her FOOT to shoot her tormentor in the throat with an arrow.

The Lost Generation is capable of hitting his target every time - including the time he went to the moon, where it took him exactly one arrow to get accustomed to the different gravity! Best Tiger, a new member of Image Comics ' Guardians of the Globe, is by a wide margin the greatest marksman to ever live.

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Which is why he wears a blindfold so his work will remain challenging. He is introduced using a single bullet to take out several dozen men via ricochet; he intentionally inflicted superficial yet disabling wounds so the bullet would be able to keep up its momentum.

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When Dirge first met Frostbite, he bragged that he once shot nine teeth out of a man's head in nine different shots without hurting him otherwise. The tenth shot killed him, but it wasn't Dirge's fault the guy couldn't keep still. Amy Rose in Sonic the Comicwho uses a crossbow, in issue 44 fires an arrow from a moving plane at a tiny little button that destroys an entire bridge.

Sonic also deserves some mention. While free-falling from the Death Egg II, Sonic steals a EggRobo's laser gun manages to fire one laser shot and perfectly hit the EggRobo carrying the Master Emerald which is also moving and is about the size of a large boulder.

There's an Elseworlds comic in which The Flash Wally West has lost his legs. His contribution to battles is now as a gunslinger, since he has all the time in the world to aim every shot. For some inexplicable reason he's shown using ordinary handguns.

He could probably aim every shot with a machinegun on full-auto. While most characters in The Walking Dead have remarkable skill at headshotting zombies, Andrea's marksmanship is acknowledged and lampshaded In-Universe as being absurdly good. Whether she's fighting zombies or other humans she's virtually never shown landing anything but perfect headshots.

The most impressive part is that Andrea never even fired a gun before the Zombie Apocalypse. I'm really good with a gun. It's kind of ridiculous. Averted in the Uplifted series. The accuracy of weapons is shown with a surprising degree of realism. Someone's clearly done their research. In Part Two of the notorious fanfic Sailor Moon: American Kitsuneprotagonist Davey Crockett manages to shoot and obliterate a throne on the Moon from the Earth with what amounts to an automatic, double-barreled sawed-off shotgun fired at a soda can thrown into the air.

As if that weren't enough, the character sitting in said throne is left completely unharmed. The countless questions this raises, such as how Davey can tell where the moon throne is in the first place, are never brought up or answered.

In the Death Note fanfic Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark YagamiDark buys a sniper rifle with which to assassinate Near, and aims at him from the top of the "Eyfal Tower". The implication is that he could have killed Near with a single bullet and didn't need to buy a box Later, in what might be due to a typographical error, Dark manages to kill one million Stormtroopers with one hundred thousand bullets, which requires killing on average, ten people with a single bullet, and only misses once.

And then there's Haloid. The Spartan soldier in that video is simply put, an insane marksman with just about ANYTHING. Ricochets from sniper fire hitting moving targets and ricocheting off of OTHER moving targets, insane levels of accuracy with rapid-fire weapons at a full run, THREE TON VEHICLES, SHOTGUN FU.

It's like watching every action movie hero's specialty with a weapon crammed into a can of complete fuckwin. Tiberium Wars has a deliberate Take That! Later on, a Nod Commando disarms a thrown grenade by shooting the fuse off it with her laser pistol. Admittedly, she's a cybernetic killing machine that has hyper-advanced technology crammed into her body, but damn. Lieutenant Fullerton, a GDI Commando, twists this around.

With some careful setup using an air vent, a remote camera, and his helmet computer, he's able to calculate the precise angles to fire through a wall to kill every Nod soldier in the next room with his railgun. In The Coalescence she lands " headshots " from a pistol on a swarm of Cloyster. Their "head" actually the black pearl is small relative to their body, they are leaping up and their shells are open only for a short time.

She doesn't miss a single shot. In Dawn of a New Era she kills three Fearow, one after the other, with headshots Dawn is the best of them all. In Child of the StormClint is widely acknowledged as being the best shot in the Nine Realms, matched only by Prince Faradei of Alfheimthe real life Legolas.

To take one example, while showboating he casually fires a shot that bounces off three pillars and snatches Volstagg's sandwich out of his hands before embedding in the wall. And then it exploded. Taking the sandwich with it. A Justified Trope due to the fact that Clint is Minerva McGonagall's illegitimate grandson by Bucky Barnes and his magical talent manifested in slightly enhanced reflexes and eyesight, much like Ultimate Hawkeye, but with a few extras.

If he shoots at you, you're probably dead. A Fistful of Arrows gets some pretty good shots, like sniping an abductor holding a hostage from a helicopter. But he's also shown struggling to snipe a Hunter, and one improbable shot turns out to have been a Gone Horribly Right for him.

Averted in Mass Foundation: Redemption in the Stars. In the first chapter, Courier Ethan Sunderland has only a decent chance of hitting the flamethrower gas tank at medium range with the VATS targeting system. Inverted in Pony POV Series with Shining Armor. His aiming skills are indeed improbable Kit can throw a card in the air and then shoot it with her crossbow right in the middle before it even hits.

First Sargent Benjy in The Hell-er-Nator II: Ghosting the Machine explains that she's so good with her wrist rocket by practicing with it daily for almost four years.

She practices hitting moving targets by shooting dragonflies, wasps, and hornets out of the air. The main feature of the alien Infiltrators, which are this fic's Thin Men.

And that's before one gets plasma sniper rifles. Lucrezia Noin gets a few seconds of a glimpse at an enemy mobile suit before it moves into cover behind a row of buildings.

She lines up on a matching pair of windows in one of the buildings and times her shot to blow off the enemy MS' lower leg. Dark Chaos Episode 61, Espio manages to throw an explosive shuriken at a pursuing Jewish cruiser.

Not only does he manage to actually hit it in zero-gravity, he gets a direct hit on the ship's ammo magazine and immediately blows it into scrap. Even Espio himself is surprised he made the shot. Tsali demonstrates this numerous times with both his Chaos powers and his wrist-mounted weaponry. Justified, since he's a very advanced battle android and has been fighting a war by himself for thirty years. Korsan in The Pirate Pegasus can shoot a bullseye from across a room with a custom-made crossbow twice, with the second bolt actually piercing the first.

Kubo and the Two Strings: Beetle proves he can be a valuable asset to the team by performing the Robin Hood arrow split several times in sucession, and claims it was the first time he'd used a bow at least since losing his memory to a curse.

Joked with in Treasure Planetwhere Dr. Doppler who doesn't appear to have held a gun before manages to shoot and hit his mark exactly. Did you actually aim for that? You know, actually, I did. The Blue Raja can hit pretty much anything with a fork Also the Spleen demonstrates his keen sharpshooting.

If you want to know what he uses for ammo, just pull his finger. Pretty much any Hollywood depiction of Robin Hoodever. Robin was no doubt relatively handy with a bow, but in reality you can't shoot a hangman's rope with a longbow and wooden arrows from 50 metres away on demand no, nor can they split an arrow every single time, sorry.

The longbow was fearsome as a weapon of war because of its range and armour-penetration, not its accuracy — for that, the English had tens of thousands of peasants shooting at armies of Frenchmen. It's not just Hollywood: He is also depicted as having the ability to fire an arrow at a bullseye, then to fire a second arrow at the exact same spot resulting in the second arrow splitting the first arrow into pieces At over meters away. Such a thing has been performed by a few people nowadays but only at close range.

Anyone who's tried their hand at archery can tell you how difficult it is to even fire an arrow straight, and how improbable it would be to even fire an arrow over 50 meters, let alone meters, or a mile. Parodied in Robin Hood: Men in Tights when Robin fires six arrows to pin a mook to a tree by his clothing. Yancey Cravat in Cimarron puts a scare in a bad guy by drawing his pistol and, while firing from the hip, grazing the bad guy's ear.

Later, he draws and fires from the hip again and kills that bad guy from the other end of a large church tent, while among a crowd of people. Of course, Leia has the Force working for her. As noted in the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy page the protagonists display such a level of technical competency or luck that most mooks look completely incompetent by comparison, even though they often aren't.

Insurrectionthe crew need to shoot down small and fast flying drones that are teleporting the Baku. They almost never miss. Phasers being directed-energy weapons and thus effectively Hit Scan probably helps. Other places in the Star Trek canon have mentions of Federation phaser rifles having various targeting assistance features, such as stabilizers, scanners, and other features which tend to make them unreliable in extended field service, but are damn sweet for short ops like this one.

All that technological aid in hitting the target makes you wonder how they ever miss. Referenced in the reboot when Scotty compares the concept of transwarp beaming i. Spock pulls it off, using the equations Scotty developed in the prime timeline. Legolas also demonstrates a truly astounding aim with his longbow in The Lord of the Rings — of course, improbable skill with a bow is a feature commonly credited to elves in most fantasy settings, and since they usually live for a long time, with aging not being much of a problemit usually makes some sense.

In both the movies and in the novels Elves have spectacular vision: The couple of times he's shown pulling a multishot on screen, it's at point blank range against a large target presumably because a larger beast needs a larger wound. Subverted during the Helm's Deep siege when he inexplicably fails to kill one lousy Uruk torch-bearer twiceboth times hitting his shoulders.

The Uruk kept running. This is taken to even greater extremes in The Hobbit. In the second film, one elf is seen shooting another arrow fired by an orc right out of the air In one instance, Legolas resorts to throwing a sword when he runs out of arrows. There have been at least three cases specifically The Magnificent SevenBlake's 7 and Firefly — the latter two are probably homages to the first where are a character is commended for a good shot only for them to say they were aiming somewhere else.

Ridiculously fast and accurate shooting was one of the standard features of Spaghetti Westerns and one of the things that distinguished them from standard American films of any quality.

Ironically, Clint Eastwood 's ability to Quick Draw a handgun, shoot, and kill any number of men in any fight without missing a shot — or being hit in return — was seen by some critics as making his films more realistic "gritty, rugged" than the plausible shooting skills of a John WayneGlenn FordJimmy Stewartor Randolph Scott film.

This was subverted in Unforgivenwhere Gene Hackman's character explains that a true gunman must sacrifice speed for accuracy.

In the end, Eastwood's character wins only by shooting carefully at close range. Speaking of John Wayne, in his final film he specifically disavows this trope, noting that he owes his reputation as a shootist to an unflinching readiness to kill his opponent, not fancy quickdraw skills or even accuracy. Parodied in Blazing Saddleswhen The Waco Kid shoots the guns out of the hands about ten Mooks in two seconds.

In Hitmanthe film of the game series, Agent 47 scores an impressive streak of headshots with his pistols during the hotel escape scene. Used heavily in Shooterespecially the helicopter scene.

There are snipers good enough to find a target, adjust for wind and drop, and fire in less than a couple seconds, but there aren't any live ones that would try to hit the rotary blade on a helicopter. It still boarders on improbable but it's closer to reality than the scenario described above. Shoot 'em Up is basically an entire film dedicated to this trope. The Blaxploitation film Three the Hard Way has the heroes with glorified cap pistols defeating the Mooks who have fully automatic machine guns.

Dawn of the Dead offers a borderline example with the character of Andy, who proves to be very accurate with zombie-killing headshots. Of course, the man owns a gun storeand is shooting from the safety of his roof using a high-powered rifle with a scope. And there's the fact that there are so many zombies, it's like trying to drain the ocean with a teaspoon Averted in the original movie, where the two SWAT guys are accurate shooters whereas the civilian helicopter pilot is inaccurate and panicky, until he has time to practise under the tutelage of one of the SWAT men.

Subverted in Shaun of the Deadwhere the gang has to team up in order to reliably use a rifle "that actually works". The scene plays out exactly like the earlier one when Shaun and Ed are playing Time Splitters 2 at home. Their aim does improve, though. In Land of the DeadCharlie, the mildly-retarded sidekick, has a "good eye," as he puts it.

He can shoot a dwarf in the head behind cover from across a room in the middle of a riot. And he nails a zombie in the face by firing inches past a teammate's head, though he does complain that it was a little off-center. When offered an automatic weapon that can fire 14 rounds per second, he just says "I don't normally need that many.

The Bourne Supremacy features an instantly-fatal shot against a human target at around meters. The target is not only moving away, she's inside a car travelling at about 20 mph, the shot is through traffic and the sniper hits on his first shot from a standing position. In The Bourne LegacyCross' skills surpass the aforementioned shot.

When he's up against a Predator drone about half a kilometer away, he manages to down it with nothing but a rifle. The drone's operators are rather shocked when they're told that the man they're trying to take out is only armed with a high-powered rifle. Of course, legacy makes it clear that Bounre and the rest of the Treadstone agents, along with the other projects' agents, are explicitly enhanced both physically cmc markets share trading mentally via retroviral engineering.

The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie True Lies is full of this trope and enemies who attended the Imperial Stormtrooper As predicting in the binary options Academy as well.

One scene in particular stands out: Arnold's character is escaping down a snow covered hill by sliding down it on his back and using a pistol to take out pursuing enemies on skis, at night; the aforementioned enemy marksmanship can be seen here as well.

Commando had a scene when Arnie's storming the villain's mansion and is picking off henchmen with seemingly no effort. Parodied when The Nostalgia Critic reviewed the movie. When covering the aforementioned scene, the Critic demonstrates how this trope is in effect when he joins in with his gun, and continues killing henchmen no matter how random the shots he makes are, even when he's just flailing the gun around wildly.

It finally culminates in the Critic putting the gun against his own headpulls the trigger In House of Flying Daggers Jin fires off four arrows in quick succession at the four soldiers attacking Xiao Mei.

Not only does each of them hit the target, said target is a spot where the arrow will stick in their clothes without hurting them since the whole thing is a setup for him to earn Xiao Mei's trust.

They also all manage to how to set up for binary options thinkorswim at about the same time, which is pretty unlikely. In this movie, anyone who throws the flying daggers never misses the mark.

They even went through the trouble of using Wanted style improbable physics. Throwing a curveball with bullets, shooting the wings off of insects, shooting down an enemy's bullet intentionally, and on and on. Bullets fired from guns don't need to go in straight lines. With a flick of the wrist, an assassin can get a bullet to swerve around an obstacle and hit a target directly behind said obstacle.

Yes, that means they can shoot around corners without relying on ricochets to change the trajectory. The most egregious example, hands-down, comes in the climax. A member of the Fraternity a secret society of assassins that decides who to kill by studying textiles has decided that the abilities wielded by the assassins are too dangerous in the hands of mortals. This rebellious member fires a single bullet that travels around the room in a circular path, killing most of the remaining members, and comes back around, hitting the person who fired the bullet.

Rule of Cool and all that. In the original comic series, Wesley is an impossibly good shot beyond any rational measure it's a superpower. In the first comic he is forced to shoot the wings off of flies, in the end he does so by closing his eyes and shooting wildly around the room.

Needless to say he succeeds. His father is also murdered by an unseen gunman who shoots him from "two cities away". Like the movie the plot of the comics is based entirely on Rule of Cool. It's just because Timur Bekmambetov does what he wants. If you're curious, he directed the movies Night Watch and Day Watchboth of which were also largely founded on Rule of Cool. This is taken to its logical extreme in the comic. Wesley and his father are literally perfect shots; at the end of comic, Wesley's father forces him to execute him, because a few weeks ago he missed a target with a pistol at about half a mile, chalking it up to old age.

He can't imagine being less than the absolute best. In Support Your Local Sheriff James Garner is asked to demonstrate his gun handling skills and manages to both subvert and play the trope straight. He begins by tossing a washer into the air and shooting at it with his pistol, then claiming the bullet went through the hole. The skeptical townsfolk ask him to repeat the stunt, although for the second shot a piece of tape is applied to the washer. Guess where the second bullet goes? Odysseus shoots an arrow through the handle rings of twelve axes in The Odyssey.

The Bible records Israel's war against their own Tribe of Benjamin. Within it, we get a description of some very talented Benjamites: David himself also deserves a mention, during the famous battle of David Vs Goliathhe sniped down Goliath with a sling, this is akin to pulling out a pistol and sniping down someone's head from a distance. Classic examples include William Tell and Robin Hood. Natty Bumppo was probably the first character to do this with guns, or at least to do it with guns and get famous.

Mark Twain ridiculed Bumppo's sharp-shooting in " Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences. In the Sherlock Holmes story "The Copper Beeches," Watson shoots a vicious dog in the head — while said dog's teeth are still buried in the throat of the man it was attacking, without taking the man's head off too. Being Watson, he doesn't mention what an incredibly difficult shot this must have been at any range.

In the novel DrakonGwen Ingolfsson intentionally shoots a running man in the knee, at long range, on the first shot, with a notoriously inaccurate and ungainly "handgun" that she's never even seen before as she's just arrived from an different universe.

Yes, she's a genetically-engineered superwoman, but that incredibly loud explosion was the Willing Suspension of Disbelief undergoing spontaneous combustion. The same author's Dies the Fire series features a number of improbably good archers, though at least all of them are explicitly described as practicing constantly and having been at it since childhood.

Comes up in the Discworld novels several times: Parodied in the novel Pyramids. The main character is on his final exam for his Assassination class and decides he can't kill the person sleeping in the bed, even if it means his teachers may kill him for disobeying.

So he defiantly shoots his crossbow at the wall, and it happens to ricochet off several surfaces and into what turns out to be a dummy.

He passes the final exam, but his instructor chides him for using showy, over-the-top methods in his assassination. Parodied again and deconstructed in Guards! It turns out he doesn't even hit the broad side of the dragon. Lampshaded in Reaper Man when Death uses his unerring dart skills to play "badly" and hit a bystander behind him.

He addresses the fact that, logically, it is a lot harder to intentionally miss the board and have the dart end up hitting a bystander behind him than to get a bulls-eye. Jason Ogg used one of Binky's old horseshoes the thing to play horseshoes the gameand never missed. Somewhat justified in the fact that Binky is the legendary Pale Horse. When you play a game with horseshoes from Death 's horse, you have to expect some strange things. Later, one of these horseshoes is called the iron that goes everywhere and the fact it won't miss if thrown is rather important to the Elf being threatened with it.

In SnuffSam Vimes's butler Willikins manages to hit a woman's broom from in the middle of a mob, without injuring the woman herself. First StrikeMaster Chief is getting help in a battle from Linda, another Super Soldier like him, who's armed with a sniper rifle.

Reach onward, the player themselves can do this. When Chief finally grabs a flier of his own to go pick her up, he finds her hanging from a cord, and realizes she's been doing all that shooting one-handed.

Her shooting skills are helped by the fact that she wears Powered Armor that responds to thoughts, not muscle movement. Honor Harrington puts 4 rounds into a guy, straight up the center, within centimeters of each other, before he even falls down, from the hipbefore raising the gun and putting a fifth one between his eyes. From 40 meters away over feet, to us Americans not in the military. Over the span of about three seconds. Justified in that she practiced intensely for the duel for weeks. The second duel however, is this trope to a "T" - she was wounded, had rolled on the ground and STILL managed to make the shots that obliterated her opponent's heart.

Victor Cachat versus the Scrag kidnappers and their allies in From The Highlands. Granted, simulator training in the Honorverse is highly effective, but Cachat is a just-graduated agent using two days' worth of simulator time that could not, by its nature, simulate the exact positions and reactions of his opponents.

He didn't manage a clean sweep of all the bad guys, but didn't leave much for the Audubon Ballroom who were supposed to do all the shooting to clean cattle market report tennessee. From the Black Library: The Gaunt's Ghosts novel Honour Guard includes a passage where the character Lijah Cuu effortlessly shoots tiny critters that even the eponymous regiment's marksman Larkin would hesitate about going after.

Unfortunately, he's also the regiment's Ax-Crazy In For the Emperor Amberley Vail accuses Cain of "showing off" when he scores a headshot with his laspistol at range. He shrugs it off by saying he was going for a torso shot and the target ducked. However a footnote reveals that Cain isin fact, uncannily accurate at long range with his sidearm. He attributes it to his augmetic fingersbut nobody stocks trading high volume with augmetics has that level of skill.

Double Subverted in The Emperor's Finest. Cain has Jurgen take a shot at a fuel tank on a vehicle. It takes him a few tries, then Cain finds out that due to the way he worded the order, his Literal-Minded aide had been aiming for, and hitthe much smaller release valve.

Subverted in Flashman by George MacDonald Fraserwhere the title character participates in a duel; because Flashman has rigged his opponent's gun, the opponent misses, and Flashman decides he will not shoot his opponent, instead firing a harmless shot aimed well off to one side Everyone takes this as proof of incredible marksmanship, giving his reputation a major boost. Good old Sharpe has this a few times. Hagman, a former poacher, is an amazing shot, and proves it repeatedly by shooting Frenchmen at just the right moment.

The only time he misses is the first time you see him And he still almost hits. When he's not recovering from torture, Stephen Maturin of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series is a crack shot with a pistol, much to the shock of a few people around him.

The Dark Tower In Stephen King 's series whose first novel just happens to be called The GunslingerRoland of Gilead is the embodiment of this trope, with improbable aiming skills demonstrated any time he draws which is generally done at lightning speed. In fact, Roland is so adept at reloading his revolver he describes it as his ".

The other three main characters Eddie, Susannah, and eventually Jake all may qualify — Eddie manages to pull off an impressive display of gunslinging with no significant experience Granted, may have had something to do with his Berserk Button being pressed.

The villain too can have these skills, as seen in Ian Fleming 's Goldfinger. I shoot at the right eye, Mr Bond. And I never miss. Downplayed with Fred, but her shooting skills were enough that she was able to shoot Angel through Jasmine. She's also been pretty handy with a crossbow in other appearances, but this takes the cake.

Stock market rise 1924 from Auction Kings doesn't make any impossible shots, but he's fairly skilled for someone with no professional training. Arguably one of the best examples was What is the quickest way to make money in gta online Repulsa.

In the original series of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangersshe would do her Make My Monster Grow by throwing her wand. Thanks to the miracle of Stock Footage, it would land in the exact same spot, every single time. Oh, and did we mention that she was throwing it from the moon? The show gives us Anguy of the Brotherhood Without Banners, who "convinces" another character to come along with him with this demonstration.

Here's the thing, fat boy. So I advise you move, because I'm done talking. An instant later, the arrow hits the ground exactly where he'd been standing. Hell of a shot, Castle. I was aiming for his head. If you put any of the next three in the ring and I will give you the files Castle rips off 3 rapid-fire shots, taking out the X with a perfect cloverleaf. Where'd you learn to warehouse boxing day trading hours that?

I guess I have wicked aim. If I may say so, sir. You may, Mr Bowles. I put four through the eyes and two through the nostrils. Invoked in Data East stockel christmas market 2016 RoboCopas the player must successfully make multiple shots at Target Practice to enable the million-point bonus. Also invoked after loading the Uzi in Lethal Weapon 3where a villain appears on the display and the player must pull the gun trigger and shoot him In Capcom 's unreleased KingpinTrixie the Moll is killed only after her jewels are methodically shot off first.

Zen Archery and Zen Marksmanship in GURPS divide range penalties by 3 when used successfully. The Precision Aiming technique is meant to be a more realistic version, taking much longer to do and requiring special equipment for a more modest gain.

Age of Sigmar Tzaangor Skyfires are able to use their precognitive abilities to pull off incredible feats of marksmanship. In-game this is represented by a re-roll to hit and their attacks having a 1-in-6 chance of automatically wounding.

Imperial Assassins are all trained to a ridiculous degree, each and every one of them qualifying as a superior shot to the best master-snipers in the galaxy by the time they are ready to be sent on actual missions. And then there's the specialist sniper school of Assassins, the Vindicare Temple, where the end goal is an entire army of guys who shoot like everyone else on this page. They specialise in making headshots how to get many gold in aqw active forcefields, at ranges of multiple kilometres, just to silence one recidivist governor or heretical demagogue before he can do enough harm to require an intervention in force.

In-game, it translates to having the ability, unique among all people in the 40k universe, to specifically single out a specific target in an enemy squad. The Skitarii, primary cyborg troops of the Adeptus Mechanicus, can be an entire army of this. Stock market excel spreadsheet trade melee skill for accuracy, but with the Protector Imperatives at maximum they're only a couple percentage points less accurate than the Vindicares, and that includes the Neutron Lasers mounted on their Dunecrawler walkers.

The Deadlands spell Kentucky Windage removes all penalties to the target number. Called shot to the headshooting from the hip, watching the target in a shaving mirror while your back is turned?

Mind you, this is small potatoes given that one martial arts combo allows you to destroy the world in one mountaintop kung fu move. In Aberrantall Novas with Mega-Dexterity have improbable aiming skills, but those that take the " Accuracy " enhancement are even better. They get three bonus dice for any aimed attack, in addition stock option expiration calendar the bonuses they get for having Mega-Dexterity in the first place.

It has to be a pretty tricky shot for such a Nova to miss. Those who take the new Golden Gunslinger martial arts style from "The New Flesh" sourcebook, can things such as shoot bullets out of mid air, make holes in cover and then shoot through those same holes to deny cover, and expand rifle range by about 10 times normal range.

In Strike Legionsome of the gun skills gives you the ability to do things like bend bullets and laser beams in mid-flight, redirect automatic fire between multiple targets i. This is before using things like biological and cybernetic implants to further amplify accuracy.

The Imperium's elite supersoldiers also have some pretty crazy accuracy, including power-armored, wall-running gun priests dual-wielding laser pistols. A core Fate spell in Mage: The Awakening is called "Sharpshooter's Eye," which eliminates penalties except cover penalties to intraday trading using bollinger bands caster's next ranged attack. With enough successes, it's possible to shoot a small object held by a moving target in a driving rainstorm in the dead of night.

All system-specific special tricks aside, this can be a natural result of a game simply allowing characters to be that good. If skill improvement is open-ended rather than hitting a cap at some point, or if caps exist but the maximum allowed by the rules is sufficiently high, a character's raw skill rating however a specific ruleset expresses it may end up outweighing situational modifiers how to pick stocks for intraday trading to make even "improbable" shots pretty much routine.

Khador's Widowmakers recruit anyone with good aiming skills and put them through training from hell until they've got it. Cygnar's Gun Mages use rune-carved bullets, which give them extreme accuracy among other tricks. The Next Stage in Human Evolution: Several techniques allow make money on etoro player and enemies to have this.

A character with Trick Shot and Long Shot can shoot a gun out of an opponent's hands at yards, if they're using a rifle to attack. It doesn't even have to be a sniper rifle. BIONICLE classifies this as an actual superpower, with the Kanohi Sanok, the Mask of Accuracygiving the wearer the ability to turn any object into a projectile that will always hit its target.

Many characters have Improbable Aiming Skills without the pair trading signals of a mask, however. Aimee from Bravely Second takes this trope and shoots it into orbit by shooting Yew literally halfway how stock options are traded the worldonly missing a killing shot by an inch or so.

Roc trading strategies then when she's killed she fires something in the air. Fast forward to a bit later in the game, when you beat Angelo and he's about to suicide by cupcakethe ring she fired finally lands right on his finger. The game mechanic of "Hitscan" weapons in shooting games revolves about this.

Instead of rendering every bullet as a moving entity which make money processing rebates make the game lag a lot, expecially when lots of characters are on the screenthe program simply draws a straight line out of the character's gun, and assumes the bullet hit the first target the line encounters, disregarding distance, gravity and such.

The entire point of behind an aim-bot is to replicate this. An aim-bot is a program that lets an AI with lighting-fast perfect marksmanship take control of your aiming duties in a first-person shooter, and an extremely obvious telltale sign that someone is using one is when he pulls off absolutely mind-blowing feats of speed and accuracy. Players using one will constantly pull off impossible feats like a complete turn to instantly headshot a target behind him with speeds far beyond human reflexes, then turning back around to headshot another two other guys in the blink of an eye, and capping that off with shooting someone without him disabling his cloaking device.

The only limitations to how fast this can be done is how fast the weapon can fire. It should go without saying that using an aim-bot binary options on demo universally considered cheating. The hallmark gestures of an aim-bot is a constantly erratic jittering as the program tries to find players to lock on to, following by an inhumanly-quick jerk to a different area than he was originally looking at.

As you can imagine, fantastic players or even mundane ones can be expected to be accused of using one by the more butthurt members of any given FPS community. In City of Heroesall attacks are determined whether they hit as soon as the animation starts. Basically, the animation just determines how long the attack takes to carry out.

But it can take a few seconds to get to the part where market america ticker symbol appear to attack.

Which can lead to a mellee attack hitting an opponent 30 feet and around a corner by the time your character actually swings, and the same goes for the computer hitting you. Cue Homing Boulders that fly through walls to hit targets who teleported around the map. In Duke Nukem 3Dthe eponymous player character will automatically aim at enemies within a certain radius from the crosshair as long as he famous sayings on stock market not looking up or down.

This means even the pistol has near-perfect accuracy at extreme range. Red Dead Revolver and Red Dead Redemption. It ain't called "Dead Eye" for nothin'. While Dead Eye aiming is improbable by itself, using Dead Eye to lob dynamite and throwing knives in Red Dead Redemption takes this trope Up to Eleven courtesy of a wonderful glitch.

You can throw a stick of dynamite at a buzzard circling high overhead, and it will shoot up into the sky and home in on the target like a seeker missile. Devil May Cry Dante is a pretty damn good shot even in the games proper, but only demonstrates truly ridiculous levels of skill in the cutscenesmake money quickly and legally as how to train mage and make money intro of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakeningwhere he — among other things — kills online make money by google adsense Mooks with a single bullet by sending a bunch of billiard-balls into the air, and then shooting one of them in such a way that it starts a chain-reaction, sending the balls flying in all directions like gigantic, colorful buckshot.

In Devil May Cry 4Dante puts a round through the Mad Scientist Agnus' papers. When Agnus picks one up to examine the damage, Dante puts another round through the exact same hole to kill him. In the same game, in the boss encounters with Dante, he rarely uses his guns, unless of course Nero tries to shoot him, at which point Dante will begin to shoot the bullets out of the air.

Also in the same game, Dante manages to pull off "stacking" five bullets on the end of the handle of his sword a la Robin Hood, just with bulletsstuck inside the Big Badeach landing perfectly behind the other, with the final one thrusting it into its core. Given Bayonetta 's similarity to the aforementioned Dante, she has her moments.

Among her more mundane examples is shooting an angel's crotch It Makes Sense in Context while facing the other way, resting her gun over her shoulder. Final Fantasy XIII deserves some mention. While free-falling from a jet, Lightning manages to fire one bullet and perfectly hit Fang's Eidolith which is also moving and is about the size of a large pebble. Did we mention that Lightning's weapon of choice, the Gunblade, has no ironsights or aiming method to speak of? The player can invoke this in Deus Metatrader expert advisor forex ea. Weapons in which you are untrained or only slightly trained have very bad aim.

Although the player can start off with very good aim in one type of weapon or decent aim in several, they'll still have a few really inaccurate crappy ones for most of the game until enough skill points are gathered to push them to Advanced or Master training level. Enter the Matrix has numerous examples, but one instance in particular is quite noteworthy; in the airport level, Ghost is tasked with shooting out the nose wheel of a Gulfstream jet to prevent it from taking off; Ghost being in a control tower and the plane being about a how to earn money as a civil engineer yards away or so and beginning its takeoff roll.

Granted Ghost is armed with a Barrett sniper rifle, but even the best snipers would be hard-pressed to make that shot. It's explicitly mentioned within the game that using Focus i. When using a sniper or shooting in first person mode, the player can zoom in a great deal farther when Focused. Metal Gear Revolver Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid is another rare villainous example.

Though wielding a revolver and never, ever using his other hand to steady ithe's got unerring accuracy, on-par with even Sniper Wolf. He can even richochet bullets off of walls.

When Cyborg Ninja cuts off his right hand, he just starts shooting with his left instead, without any perceptible drop in accuracy. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater subverts this; the future Big Boss, then known as Naked Snake, gave Ocelot how much money does sports broadcasters make idea of using a revolver as his weapon of choice, after noticing that with his previous gun a Makarov PM handgunhe twisted his elbow to absorb the recoil, which actually worsened his aim with it.

Later in the same game, Ocelot adds a stock to the revolver to steady his aim for a long-range shot. In MGS3the first time we see Ocelot, he displays Aiming Skills, managing to fire a bullet that ricochets multiple times before killing a Mook.

When Snake later gets one of the revolvers, the bullets still ricochet, make money on surveys paypal he could conceivably do the same if the player was brigg livestock market enough.

Also subverted in Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakeswhere, during the torture scene, Ocelot is spinning his gun on his left hand and drops it by accident — lending a bit of credibility that his left hand isn't quite as accurate as his right.

He later goes on to shoot the PAL key out of Snake's hand near the end of the game. Ironically, in Twin Snakesthe legendary sniper villain character Sniper Wolf also subverts this trope by submitting to certain real-world sniping necessities of behavior: The irony comes from nearly every other villain in the game embodying a trope in order to make themselves unique, while Wolf's more conventional sniping ability is soundly trumped by Solid Snake's employment of two tropes multiplied together.

In the cutscene in which Wolf is defeated following a player-controlled sniper-fight boss battle in an outdoor snowfield in Alaska, against an enemy wearing all white, in the midst of a blizzardSnake is suddenly disarmed by Wolf shooting the PSG-1 sniper rifle from his grip and taking a bead on his forehead.

She is undone, however, when Snake suddenly performs a perfect backflip, lands with his heel against the rifle's stock to propel it into the air, executes a full turn to grab it, aims, and fires the killing shot straight into Wolf's lungs from more than a hundred yards distant.

In Wolf's defense, she does recover from surprise in time to return fire simultaneously, but without the power of being the primary focus of the cutscene, her shot harmlessly misses. The combined power of Improbable Aiming Skills and Cutscene Power to the Max has a resonance, it bank of ireland london stock exchange, rendering the protagonist briefly perfect.

Spoofed and taken to a ridiculous extreme in this strip among others from The Last Days of FOXHOUND. One last Twin Snakes example. Noticing a trend yet? After defeating Vulcan Raven's tank, Snake takes a grenade, regardless of whether or loan payment calculator with extra principal payments you still have one, unpins it, waits a few seconds, and throws it into the barrel of the tank's cannon, all the way to the other end, where it waits for the gunner when he opens the hatch how much money did twain earn as a riverboat pilot load the next round.

He has enough time for an " Oh, Crap! His knives always hit, even on a moving target that changes direction unexpectedly, and ALWAYS kills instantly, without even giving the victim a chance to cry out.

Well, unless it's one of your 'Targets', in which case they just basically ignore the throwing-knives for no apparent reason. Ezio is the same with throwing knives in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: He also has a small pistol, which is extremely accurate for those days. In BrotherhoodEzio gets a crossbow, which will hit and instantly kill anyone he aims at. In fact, Stealth Based Missions become really easy once the crossbow is introduced.

In the trailer for Assassin's Creed IIIConnor is able to hit his mark in the chest with an arrow while in mid-jump. Granted, he wasn't very far from the target to begin with, but still. Gordon Freeman in Half-Life. He's not shown to be supernaturally accurate, at least compared to other First Person Shooter heroes. However, unlike almost all other FPS heroes who at least have some form of military backgroundhe's a theoretical physicist who's never picked up a gun in his life prior to the events of the game.

This makes incredibly impressive his ability to rapidly learn to use an assault rifle well enough to fight off both an alien invasion and a battalion of highly trained special forces soldiers. Lampshaded in the sequel, in which Breen, through his "Breencast" system, berates his mook army for being completely unable to impede Gordon's how to prepare cashew sweets Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.

D at the time of the Black Mesa Incident The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that, an ordinary man. It's unknown who they're working, they're never mentioned by any characters in Half-Life, and the only game that puts focus on them is of debatable canon. Of all we don't know, one thing is for certain, an Assassin with a 9mm pistol will never miss a shot.

Dispite their weak weaponry, Assassins are a higher threat than the Special Forces you spend half the game fighting, largely how much money do athletes make from endorsements part because of their pin-point accuracy and quick trigger fingers.

The Lone Wanderer in Fallout 3 takes this trope to ridiculous extremes, being able to shoot a switchblade out of someone's hand and follow it up with a perfect headhsot. From fifty metres away. With a sightless I shit you not hunting rifle.

He can still miss with a shotgun at point-blank range, oddly enough. And that headshot doesn't even appear to be a true headshot. Instead the target is decapitated with a Clean Cutthe seemingly undamaged head lying next to the corpse. This is particularly hilarious when considering that the ammo used by Sniper rifles and the 'Infinity plus one rifle', Lincoln's Repeater.

Compare a point blank hit with a shotgun which blows the enemy into many bloody chunks. The head does explode if it is crippled. The sniper rifles and repeater are nice, but they just don't provide the satisfaction that decapitating someone with a BB gun does. The mechanics behind weapon spread can be somewhat interesting, being a sum of the weapon's minimum spread, spread caused by injury 0 if uninjuredand spread based on skill, stance, and ironsight use.

Because level skill with a weapon changes the last value from. As not all readers of this page will have played the game, it should be noted that the game justifies or at least attempts to justify this, in that this skill is not natural: The player character only has Improbable Aiming Skills due to a system-the nature and workings of which are never really explained-called Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.

A brief, somewhat-muffled conversation between the PC's father and Vault 's Overseer implies this system to be a cybernetic implant, or some other form of non-natural human enhancement. Related to this is the fan-made web series Fallout: Nuka Breakwhere Twig, the only Vault Dweller in the main party and thus the only one with a Pip-Boy, openly admits to being an absolutely terrible shot unless he's using V.

New Vegas retains the ridiculous extremes mentioned above for the player. Also notable is Craig Booneone of the companions in the game. He's a retired NCR 1st Recon sniper and his "Guns" stat is maxed out. In-game, if one finds the Sniper's Nest overlooking Cottonwood Cove, where it is implied that Boone gave his pregnant wife a Mercy Kill after she was captured by Legion slaversyou'll note that it's too far away from the Cove for the NPCs within to loadmuch less be visible to the player, even through a gun scope.

It's not only improbable, but impossible for travel and make cash reclamações player to make a similar shot. This leads to cases where you can have an archer shoot at something that's pretty much 2 tiles away and 10 storeys above, or have a gunner SHOOT THROUGH A MOUNTAIN FACE AT POINT BLANK RANGE and hit the target on the biggest drops in stock market history side, 7 panels away.

It's amusing to think that a bullet backed up by Ultima Charge would behave this way. Compared to other AI allies throughout the series, Captain MacMillan from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a deadshot. Within a second of killing your first mook as Lieutenant Pricehis partner is killed by MacMillan, regardless of who you choose.

Despite his skills, he's only there binary options trading good or bad supervise your preemptive assassination attempt on The Man Behind the Man.

During the hectic escape from the operation, you're hard pressed for cover and ammo while MacMillan patiently urges you on, and turns his side of the field into a graveyard. Sometimes a common occurence in FPSes, especially if The Computer Is a Cheating Bastardbut played straight in TimeSplittersas the Phlebitonium for much of the game, and in fact the concept itself, is plain and simply Rule of Cool.

Speculation has it that this is due to a couple of the set patterns of blunderbuss firing arcs, and the height at which the computer naturally aims.

If you require evidence, use all zombie characters, while playing one yourself, and take note of the amount of headless people running around in some all blundie games. Averted with the Spider Mastermind in Doom due to the chaingun's naturally random 'spray'. The assault rifle in Left 4 Dead has laser-like accuracy that gives it essentially infinite range. This can be a bit annoying when playing as the infected on versus, as Survivors will be able to spray bullets at you from halfway across the map and still get a headshot.

Arcade Light Gun shooters take this to a ridiculous extreme, for both you and your opponents. Not while using their guns, though, oh no. This trope is only invoked when your enemies throw something at you. Yes, for some reason a thrown baseball is more likely to kill you than an assault rifle in these sorts of games.

For your part, however, you're quick enough on the draw to shoot whatever's coming at you out of the air with a single shot. Here are a few highlights of the genre: You can shoot grenades, oil drums, and RPGs out of the air with one shot from a pistol. You can shoot groups of dynamite complete with timer out of the air with a single pistol shot. Apparently they must have set said timers for 4 seconds, as they will explode the instant they hit you.

Not only that, but one of the bonus levels involves you doing this while terrorists throw a non-stop string of dynamite bombs attached to frozen turkeys at you! To neutralize the hijacker, you must shoot out his rather small Dead Man Switch remote, otherwise he blows up the plane.

House of the Dead: Zombies will throw axes at you. This in itself is amazingbut they will always hit unless you shoot them out of the air with a single shot. Sniping from a moving vehicle? Shooting out the rotor of a helicopter from said vehicle? Sniping a boss with a meat shield in another erratically-moving vehicle? Sniping searchlights while parachuting?

Shooting knives and grenades in midair? Destroying a tank by sniping down its barrel? Shooting the handcuffs or bomb detonators off a hostage? The player himself needs to have extraordinary sniping skills and dexterity to beat the game.

In melee combat Batman always hits — often with multiple batarangs — his targets if he's facing towards them. But then, hey, he's Batman. Arkham City has a side-quest featuring Deadshot, who manages to kill one of his targets by ricocheting the bullet of a metal shutter first.

Batman also comes to the conclusion in his investigations that he killed a target by firing THROUGH a water tower. The boss fight against him results in an instant kill if he so much as glances at you. You have to wait 'til he faces the other direction entirely to sneak up on him. Arkham Origins this is Taken Up to Eleven by Deadshot again. In the trailer, he shatters the sword in Deathstroke's hand several times in rapid succession from several miles away, right before shooting a single chain-link holding up a large crate.

In his introduction, he is seen killing three enemies in one shot while said enemies were spaced out! In the actual gameplay, he is able to shoot a SWAT sniper, then ricochet the bullet off of his head and into the tail of a GCPD helicopter, causing it to spiral out of control and crash.

When you actually face him, he can literally ricochet his bullets off of three different surfaces even plywood and still hit you The archer units in Stella Deus The Gate Of Eternity can shoot anywhere as long as the target is in weapon range. This includes around corners, up hills, and through obstacles. Borderlands in Playthrough 2 and 2.

You're meters away from BadMutha enemy, that said enemy has a shotgun with 20 accuracy. It still manages to get most of the projectiles to hit you, when you couldn't hit them with same shotgun from that range. Surprisingly for enemies that are Demonic Kamikaze Spiders in close combat, Psychos have perfect accuracy whether they're twenty or two hundred yards away. It wouldn't be nearly as absurd if not for the fact that they're throwing axes at you. Also used in Mordecai's back story.

He apparently won a sharp shooting contest while he was 17 against several professional snipers with much more experience. They all used sniper rifles; he used a revolver.

The snipers then chased him off and called him a cheater. Inverted with Gaige the Mechromancer's Anarchy build in Borderlands 2. By killing enemies and emptying magazines, Gaige can build stacks of Anarchy to increase her raw damage at the expense of accuracy in both cases, the modifier is 1. If she has the Slayer of Terramorphous class mod, letting her rack up anarchy stacks, and a gun with a low base accuracy, her aim becomes impossibly bad - bullets will go sideways or land behind you, zigzag in midair, and otherwise strive to avoid actually hitting anything, even at point-blank range Enemies in Rainbow Six can headshot you with almost any weapon from beyond visual range while aiming the wrong wayand can shoot at impossible angles that you can't.

A bug in Vegas 2 allows the player to blind-fire sniper rifles with perfect accuracy. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Real Life marksman who can do so with his speed and accuracy, nevermind as consistently. Sync shots in Ghost Recon: On top of that, AI teammates can shoot through anything to get them once they're lined up, while human players can take advantage of the Bullet Time after a successful sync shot to kill any extra targets before they notice what's happening; and in either case though it's easier for humans the bullets will also kill anyone else lined up with your target.

Mooks in inFamous will not miss you if you're standing still. This includes the Bagmen, which is an army made up of homeless men who armed themselves with automatic weapons who will hit you if you so much as peek your head out of cover from meters. It's theorized that the protagonist's Shock and Awe powers make him a literal bullet magnet.

Locking on to a specific target isn't actually required to demonstrate this trope in its full glory. Pick up a gun with high-velocity projectiles in this case, either the rifle or machinegun.

With significant upgrades to the jump ability, leap across the street with plenty of human class targets with substantial threat ratings like normal soldiers near a hive or base. While still in air, tap the fire button rapidly.

Voila, dead soldiers lying flat, all taken one bullet each in the span of about what, 2 to 3 seconds? Subverted somewhat in that automatic firing will cause a decrease in accuracy the longer the trigger is held no matter the player's stance. Even more spectacular, is the throwing of objects even while moving in the air. Should the moving target change velocity or direction slightly, the thrown object can mildly compensate mid-flight, making it look like the ambulance you've just hurled is homing onto the Apache chopper trying to dodge your attack.

Improbable aiming taken to the absurd degree. The AI in Worms is an incredible shot. Infact they seem to feel the need to rub it in, ignoring targets directly next to them to shoot at things a long distance away that they wouldn't be able to physically see or know exist if it wasn't for the side view. Let's see - using a bazooka to shoot an enemy on the other side of the map. That's to say that the AI frequently does shots that could be classified as improbable at bestthen there are the shots that go through a gap that by all accounts should not fit a bazooka and that's while the said bazooka is doing a turn under the influence of a very strong wind.

The AI using a bazooka is the preferred option for you; if the enemy pulls out a grenade, you can only pray it doesn't target the worm that will actually die by taking maximum grenade damage. Their favourite tactic is to make the grenade ricochet a bit say, at least times and land on the head of your worm at the same time the fuse time runs out.

And this is on all difficulty levels; the only real difference is that lower AI levels will either sometimes miss on purpose or just be really bad at picking targets. The "Cocky" AI in Worms Reloaded does this on purpose.

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It chooses to do the most difficult but still viable shots possible in order to show off. Kevin Ryman and Alyssa Ashcroft in Resident Evil Outbreak can both take a little longer to aim a handgun to receive a much higher chance of a critical hit. In Valkyria Chroniclesall the guns used by the player's squad start off mediocre and are gradually improved, and all start off with low accuracy, indicated by a huge possible firing space, even sniper rifles.

Later in the game, the line of fire on the sniper rifle is small enough to target soldiers on the other side of the map, especially if using Marina Wulfstan, who thanks to a particularly useful Potential, is given a cross-hair the size of a small dot, meaning she'll hit dead-center any target at any distance ten times out of ten.

Anybody who has fought Selvaria on the ramparts of Selvaria's Last Stand can attest to her improbable aiming skills, sniping your troops with deadly accuracy with a heavy machine gun, no less. From the other side of the map.

Displayed by your enemies in '' Will Rock: They can hit you from every possible distance with: In the Medal of Honor series, Nazis have near-perfect accuracy when blind-firing behind cover ie what is supposed to be suppressing fire.

Enemies with automatic weapons in Soldier of Fortune II are implausibly accurate at long range, while the player suffers from A-Team Firing with the same guns. A nameless, fameless Mook proves his serious chops in Final Fantasy XII 's opening movie.

The Imperial Trooper who kills Rassler does so by shooting him with an arrow. While Rassler is mounted on a chocobo and jostling about erratically. In the din and chaos of a pitched battle. Across the span of a bridge. If it wasn't for the fast Basch kills him with an equally improbable shot albeit with an armor-piercing arrowhead, so he didn't need to aim at a weak spot, the man would probably be deserving of a promotion.

The Zelda games—and any games that have auto-targeting—use this when you can lock onto an enemy and let loose with arrows or whatever weapon you have. It only gets really absurd when, in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princessa mini-game requires you to shoot an arrow at a post on a guard tower a hundred yards away, but the arrows don't drop at all and there is a targeting sight.

The mini-game wins you the Hawkeye, an item that functions like binoculars, or a sniper scope when combined with the bow, giving you even more improbable aiming powers! Improbable aiming skills feature heavily in the various archery "skill books" found in-game. One such story describes a revenge-driven archer firing an arrow from up on a hill, across a castle moat, through the keyhole in the castle's front door, and into a portrait of the owner.

The notion that he could even see what he was aiming at takes this trope to a ridiculous new level. In another, an archer out for a shooting practise session with his friend fires a shot that goes wide of the target Another excellent short story from Morrowind features a slave from the archer race who coaches his owner's son on how to hit his target by firing ridiculous wild shots, on the basis that one should get a feel for how arrows fly before bothering to try to hit anything in particular.

The father is furious that the slave is not training his son the way he asked, so begins beating the slave. The slave, while being beaten, continues to coach the pupil on taking wild shots straight into the air. The son ultimately scores a perfect hit on the slave's intended target In other words, this archer is so good he can line up a perfect shot, with someone else's bow, while being beaten with a stick. On Hard difficulty in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1enemy infantry aims inhumanly fast and always scores headshots when they hit, essentially reducing the player character to a One Hitpoint Wonder.

In Dark Soulsbecause The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard and the game hates youyou can actually see enemy projectiles curve in midair to hit you, while you'll never be able to do the same, there's also significantly less arrow drag when they shoot, which means their homing arrows will follow you for absurd distances if you don't dodge them.

Hawkeye Gough used to be a master archer that lived up to his nickname, but he has since gone completely blind. He's still able to hit a moving target from miles away, like it's no big deal.

Granted, he is a literal giant with a greatbow as big as he is, but still. Shooting an oak tree at a dragon is about the same scale as shooting a normal arrow at a person, right? Now watch, and see how Gough hunts dragons. When They Cry gives us the four Chiester sisters. Their first appearance is for them to shoot down two people running away from them with a single arrow.

After the people have turned at least one corner. And that's their most basic shot. They go on to do things like firing an arrow from the other side of a forest, through an open window and then through a keyhole into a locked room to kill two people. Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! Less improbable but still impressive is the Prime Minister with a rifle.

While Emiya Shirou is usually more associated with swords, his skill with a bow is downright inhuman. Before he quit the archery club, he was known for getting perfect bullseyes with every shot. The one and only time he missed his target, he'd done so on purpose, just to see what missing the target felt like. There's a reason his future self was summoned as an Archer class Servant rather than a Saber.

Her character profile mentions that she can hit targets from up to ,km away, and that she once shot the wings off a sparrow while standing on the second moon of the planet that the sparrow was on.

A comic of 8-Bit Theater had Black Mage and Red Mage discussing on who'd win in a fight: Bullseye and Green Arrow, based on either's Improbable Aiming Skills.

RM then said Green Arrow could shoot several arrows precisely at once. BM argued — and was pinned to a tree by such an attack Parodied in this strip of The Last Days of FOXHOUND with a shooting contest between Sniper Wolf and Revolver Ocelot. In a Better Days strip, the main character manages to shoot two men directly in the head while holding an obese man still with one arm.

And using a silenced weapon, may I add, which makes it even more ridiculous. Of course he can. Janet of Gunnerkrigg Court can nail an arrow mid-flight. Not just with archery: In bowling, she manages to score two strikes in a single throw. Several generations prior, Steadman was able to hit a moving target at the bottom of a very deep ravine, in the middle of the night.

As the captain of her school's Archery Club, Callista "Deadeye" Archer is naturally the best there is. In her very first appearance, she demonstrates why she has her distinction, by firing three arrows at once from the rafters and hits all three of the Hellrunes' belt buckles with perfect precision. But that's not all: A Survival of the Fittest example is Trish McCarroll.

Using an AK notorious for recoil that she'd never fired before or any guns for that mattershe managed to hit Sloan Henriksen four times in the heart and six in the lungs in a single burst of fire. It's put down to luck, but still, for somebody who has never used a gun it was an incredible feat. Amusingly, given that SOTF is a play by post gameit was actually Sloan 's handler that caused the Improbable Aiming Skills. The killer later shot Amber Whimsy in the heart as well, this time while lying on their back and not bothering to set up the shot.

This can be somewhat forgiven, however, as both characters were relatively close to one another. Clio Gabriella was able to shoot Chris Davidson in the face despite the fact that not only did the character have nerve damage to their hand, but they hadn't been intending to pull the trigger.

During one of the youtube channel Outside Xbox's videos of dishonoured, Mike pulls off a headshot on his moving target from a building on the other side of a town square, using a flintlock pistol. Just about any time Mike picks up a gun in an assassination game is one of these moments. From the ground floor of the mansion. While she's on the top floor. And he's running, with the red death filter. It's part of her superpowers. She can use her Ki to throw just about anything wherever she wants.

Knives, shuriken, throwing spikes, you name it. She has a 'dartboard' that is the size of a quarter, and she throws sewing needles at it. She still hasn't missed the bullseye. Also, Hive and Deadeye have superpowers that let them be unbelievably good snipers.

Okay, Hive had decades of experience as a U. Navy sniper before getting those powers. Loophole can use her Technopath power and ability to compute trajectories in her head to master any weapon just by touching it.

Ballistic, a superhero from the Global Guardians PBEM Universe is said to be the best shot in the world with a handgun, and qualifies as a trick shot, a master of Gun Fuand is absolutely a Quick Draw. Red Eagle, Briar Rose, The Bowman, Obsidian Arrow, Yeoman, Artemis, and Warpath are all "super archers", and are able to skim the wings off flies in mid-flight with their arrow-shots. In the horror tale ''Melon Heads''female lead Sarah Haley is surprisingly good at hitting the titular monsters with thrown rocks.

Elaborated in an "interview" with the character, who reveals a softball background. Inverted with Church in one of the later seasons of Red vs. He unloads his entire magazine at someone less than two feet away Played straight in the flashback segments with Agent North Dakota, the Freelancers' sniping specialist. He makes several impressive shots, culminating in dual-wielding sniper rifles and rapid-fire shooting several in-flight anti-personnel missiles out of the air milliseconds before they would've hit Tex.

Jason Teller of ASH has very low-level telekinesis and a superhuman grasp of angles, resulting in this. Later, The Number Man demonstrates this skill using a sniper rifle-thanks to his Awesomeness by Analysis powers, he can perfectly predict the path of a bullet and even cause them to ricochet. RWBY 's Pyrrha Nikos has these, as shown in her Establishing Character Moment. Pinning a person- who's falling through the air several dozen meters away- to a tree, with only a minute or so to aim her shot, and leaving said person completely unharmed.

The person in question was so far from Pyrrha that it took 5 seconds for her javelin to hit its target. Zero Punctuation has Yahtzee frequently complaining that the AI enemies in modern FPS's that aren't completely stupid are frequently granted aiming ability that far surpasses his own. Mary from Twig is completely normal, aside from being a Laser Guided Tyke Bomb clone raised to assassinate people, and can make impossible shots with her knives from absurd distances.

The Duke of Francis, introduced later, is actually enhanced and can reliably make headshots against enemies that can Dodge the Bullet. The Yuyan Archers from Avatar: The Last Airbender can literally shoot the wings off a fly or at least pin it to a tree from a hundred paces away — without killing itor at least that's what Zhao said.

Though this was most likely hyperbole, they are able to pin Aang to a log by his shirt and nail someone hiding behind a human shield in the head, from a great distance in the middle of the night. Mai has also demonstrated impeccable and deadly accurate knife-throwing skills. Although sometimes it's shuriken. She keeps several dozen in the sleeves of her robe.

The ARC Troopers from Star Wars: Clone Wars possess impressive powers of accuracy, almost every shot blasts a droid's head off and a single trooper takes out a Trade Federation armored tank in less than 5 seconds by running up the side of it, blasting the top off, shooting several shots from the inside of the machine and running like hell.

Averted in Code Lyokowhere Odd and Yumi miss quite frequently, especially when the shot would be difficult in real life i. Then again, since often the enemies simply dodge, and Odd's arrows are often shown moving as fast as a real arrow, this might be a case of The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. Played relatively straight with Aelita after she gains her Energy Field in season 3who only misses when she's distressed, though her attacks have the added advantage of being deadly wherever they touch the monster, with no need to aim at their weak spots.

Ferb in Phineas and Ferb. In "Ain't No Kiddie Ride", as Candace is falling into a canyon on a coin-powered rocket when she run's out of quarters, Ferb casually does "The Robot" for a couple of tourists, who give him a quarter.

Then he proceeds to slingshot the coin straight into the slot and save his sister's life. Played with in South Park: Butters hits his target every time, without looking — however, the bullet always hits them in the crotchno matter where Butters is aiming.

This gets him yelled at by Cartman, as shooting a man in the crotch is the one and only act that is too cruel even for him. In King of the HillBobby has very few talents, but at a carnival after picking up a BB gun at a shooting gallery, he finds out he's an excellent shot.

Later, when taken to a shooting range, he shoots off his rounds pretty quickly. Hank is disappointed that Bobby didn't listen to him, only to discover all of his shots hit the target dead center. Alex Sector never previously known for his aiming skills disables an elephant with laser cannons without harming it.

Alex accomplishes this feat: A number of competition and professional shooters, over a number of decades, have performed incredible feats of gunplay. It should also be pointed out that these shooters practice daily, going through tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition per year, and are the absolute top masters of their respective field at an Olympic level of skill.

Look up folks like Bob Munden who was probably the best in this categoryEd Cantrell, Elmer Keith, Jerry Miculek, or Rob Leatham for starts The Discovery Channel series Time Warp aired an episode titled "Sharpshooter", which featured among others super-slow motion photography of a professional rifle shot shooting at and hitting an ordinary playing card edge on!

He was believed to have a faster draw than Buffalo Bill, and could toss a coin in the air, draw his. Ed McGivern was the living embodiment of this trope. In one chapter of his book, he says paraphrased"anyone can do this. I pulled it off by standing in a field in Montana and burning up 30, rounds to master this one trick shooting aerial targets. This is especially impressive as he did it twiceusing a gun not designed for that range though still a sniper rifle.

He is followed by Rob Furlong, at 2, meters. The difficulty of these long ranges is pointed out by the facts like Furlong's shot, at a moving target, took 4 seconds to go from the gun and had a bullet drop of about feet. Beating even that was Royal Marine Matt Hughes. Although his shot at an Iraqi sentry was a relatively short meters, the gale-force crosswind meant his bullet curved 56 feet sideways. The greatest sniper in history killed Soviet soldiers using only iron sights.

He may not have matched other snipers in sheer range, but you have got to respect a sniper so skilled he hunted with only a pair of very fine-tuned bits of metal telling him where his shots were going to go. The Russians were flat fucking terrified of him by the end of the Winter War; they called him the White Death for a reason.

He was eventually presented with a higher-quality rifle, but removed the scope because 1. Inusing a black powder rifle over an open sight, he shot a French general dead at a range of meters.

Then he shot the first man to come to the general's aid, just to prove it wasn't a lucky shot. He and a group of Bison hunters were defending the settlement of Adobe Walls from Comanches. Dixon, armed with a Sharps rifle, knocked a Comanche off his horse at a surveyed range of 1, yards without a scope. Even as Billy Dixon was most possibly one of the best long-range riflemen in the entire world, he did not give much credit to his shot and did not attempt to duplicate it.

Military snipers in general. US Army snipers average one confirmed kill for every 1. Add in the probable kills, and the accuracy goes up to one kill for every 1. Craig Harrison not only hit a target over 8, feet away with a rifle designed to have an effective distance of 5, feet, but decided that wasn't badass enough and did it twice. Not reported in that link is that with his third shot, Corporal Harrison disabled the machine gun his targets were using.

As they say in America, three up, three down. It should be noted that modern military snipers use computers to calculate bullet drop and wind effects and secondary spotters to feed them distance and wind information before taking their shots; making the shooter mostly a steady hand on the trigger.

Vietnam era and earlier snipers often forewent spotters—as noted, 1 man, 1 gun, and real skill, though one must also remember that in modern settings both the sniper and the spotters are often trained to do it the old-fashioned way with physical or memorized bullet drop tables, just in case the electronic gear gets disabled.

In in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, a patrol was on a rooftop in the eastern part of the city scouting out sniper positions. A member of the patrol was killed by a terrorist sniper from the city hospital, over half a mile away. An impressive enough shot, but the Army sniper, SSG James Gilliland, with the patrol was better. Within seconds of the shot, he turned, acquired the terrorist's position, and returned fire, killing him with one shot. A within-seconds snap-shot kill at over 1, meters.

Not to mention he somehow found the spot the bad guy was firing from amongst the many windows of the hospital. He even made The Other Wiki as the 7th longest sniper kill in history and, more interestingly, the longest sniper kill made with 7. SWAT officer Mike Plumb shoots a gun out of a suicidal man's hand —without hurting the man please ignore the voiceover; the narrator has no idea what's going on. Not that shooting guns out of a person's hand can't be done, but it's just too Awesome, but Impractical to use.

This particular shot occurred at about 60 yards, which is extremely close range for a sniper rifle, though the size of the revolver being shot at means it wasn't exactly easy at that range either. During an eight hour battle between US Marines and Taliban fighters, a Marine marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. What makes his actions even more impressive is that he didn't miss a shot, despite the enemies' rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position.

The memoir Sniper One tells of the exploits of a UK sniper platoon in Al-Amarah, one of the most dangerous and least-known battlefield cities in the Iraq War. They have a number of feats such as these.

The Beanshooter Man, who performs this trope with a slingshot of all things. When King Charles I, who was watching, claimed it was a fluke, he did it again. The weathervane was still in place, with its two musket holes, years later. The fire was so devastating the German commanders thought the Americans had machine guns.

A similar feat has been attributed to a British rifle platoon at a bridge in The British trained specifically for this pre-war with the "Mad Minute" training exercise in which riflemen had to put at least 15 aimed shots into a 12" target yards away within 60 seconds — with a bolt-action rifle.

And many riflemen could average over To illustrate how impressive this is, the United States Marine Corps trains for between ten and twelve aimed shots per minute with semi-automatic fire and thirty-round magazines. British soldiers would have to fire ten shots, manually cycling the action after each shot, reload, and do the same thing, reload after the next five shots, and so on to get thirty rounds within a minute. Otto Carius, one of the best tank commanders of WW2had this to say: That is, he succeeded in shooting down a Russian fighter with a tank cannon Kramer, upset by the unrelenting nuisance of these guys, elevated his cannon along the approach route.

I talked him in. He took a chance and pulled the trigger. The Russian crashed behind us. The first M26 Pershing tank to be knocked out was done in by a shot through the hole for the coaxial machine gun. Hans-Joachim Marseille, the most accurate fighter pilot in history; until his death from hitting the aircraft he was bailing out of, he expended an average of 15 rounds of ammunition per plane he shot down. On 1 Septemberhe took off in his Bfshooting down three Kittyhawk fighters out of ten attacking a Ju formation, and on his way back to base he was attacked by a group of Spitfires, shooting down six.

When reloading the plane, his armorer discovered that Marseille had expended only 20 cannon rounds and 60 machine-gun rounds to shoot down all nine aircraft. This is a slightly unfair way to measure aiming skill, however, as the Bf armament included a pair of 20 mm cannons, while the early war Spitfires it was facing of with were equipped with 8.

One 20 mm shell did a lot more damage than ten. It is not unfair when you compare it to the ammunition used by other pilots flying the same type of aircraft. Also, the Bf F and Bf G airplanes which Marseille flew in North Africa only had one cannon, which fired through the hollow axis of the propeller.

As the two machine guns were mounted on top of the engine, the projectiles from the three guns hit very close to each other. The guns of a Spitfire were mounted in the wings, which made more for a kind of scatter-gun effect. But while talking about Spitfires, Canadian pilot Buzz Beurling became legendary flying out of Malta for his obscene skills in deflection and long-range shooting. Initially considered a braggart when he was flying out of England because his gun camera didn't record the hits he claimed he was making, it was later realized that he was so good at calculating trajectories of bullets and enemy planes that he'd fire before the aircraft came in view of the camera.

Once he reached Malta, he had his mechanics remove tracer rounds from his ammunition because he didn't need them to know where his rounds were going and so the enemy didn't know they were being shot atand made the longest recorded kill with a Spitfire, taking down another plane at yards. An engineer by profession, Fonck applied the mathematical skills of his former vocation to make extremely accurate deflection shots ; he rarely required more than a single burst of machine gun fire to down his targets.

While flying the SPAD XII, a single-seat aircraft armed with a 37mm cannon that had to be manually reloaded after each shothe managed to claim 11 aircraft destroyed. His skills were only matched by his boastinga quality which even his few close friends commented on.

He manned his gun for 3 days, fighting with his submachinegun when attacked by infantry, crawling among leftover guns to drag ammo boxes for his weapons, and firing at Soviet tanks when they approached. He survived to die from natural causes aged The best part of it? His gun's optical equipment had been destroyed in the initial attack.

He aimed through the barrel before pushing the shell inside and closing the breech. Dersu Uzala Arseniev is about one native friend whom he met while exploring Far East. The protagonist shoots so ridiculously well, done in a fiction, this would make eyebrows rise, but it's a memoir.

Enters giggling drunk Dersu. Now my want chase duck. The bullet hits water, its splash showers the bird. It squeaks in panic and flies farther. Next shot — another close hit. Now most of them have to use binoculars. One tried to compete and shot. The ricochet made the bird dive for a moment, but that's all. Dersu aims carefully — yet another very close hit. The duck flies away for good.

The Soldier Corporal Alvin York. When his unit was spotted by a German machine gun company and his entire squad either had been cut down or had fled to cover except him, he stood and took the concentrated fire of thirty-two German machine guns and over German riflemen without receiving so much as a scratch on him. But this trope comes into play for his offensive capability: With only his Enfield bolt-action rifle and Colt. I jes couldn't miss a German's head or body at that distance.

Besides, it weren't no time to miss nohow. Official report of the battle: The American [York] fired all of the rifle ammunition clips on the front of his belt and then three complete clips from his automatic pistol.

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