Recreating This Sniper's Famous Shot
August 16th, 1993, Columbus, Ohio. A man by the name of Doug Conley has sat himself in the middle of a residential intersection, gun in hand, threatening to end his own life. In the following hours, a tense standoff and negotiations between Conley and the police have proven fruitless.
Conley has been sitting in the intersection for hours in the 90 degree heat, with a warm can of soda as his only refreshment, and so, has become more and more irritated as the hours drag on.
Sensing that Conley isn't going to throw in the towel, SWAT sniper Michael Plumb is given the order to shoot, but not to shoot Conley, instead, to shoot his gun.
From 82 yards away, after hours of waiting in intense heat, and with a man’s life in his hands, Plumb now has one chance to land a shot on a moving target barely the size of his palm.
Bullseye..
He makes the shot, striking Conley’s gun and blowing it into 3 pieces. Police swarm Conley, and once he's in cuffs, he reportedly says “That was a great shot”.
This would become known as the “Shot seen ‘round the world” and Mike Plumb’s teammates would memorialize his feat with a trophy, the very gun he shot on that day in 1993.
Michael Plumb is undoubtedly a badass, and what he pulled off seems like a true one in a million shot, but what I want to know is, just how hard would it be to recreate this shot seen round the world?