I've been waiting long enough to see if any of the members of this forum would start to question the veracity of Ton Jones' alleged new record at 2058yr distance, but no one has posted except for one Centrcut comment.
I personally don't understand this, because if I published a similar video and claimed that I set a new world record without a single proof of the hit, photos of the hit on the target, proof of the distance, simply without anything, there would be 5 pages of haters attacking me directly in single day and you know what , it would be justified.
Since I don't believe that anyone will take this on, I have to do it myself, even though I know that I am in a conflict of interest in this regard. But I can do this because I am 100% sure that this is a fake scam video and I will also provide clear evidence to prove it.
I will present the 2 most important pieces of evidence that this is not and never was a 2058 yard shot. I will list these two as they are the easiest to understand for the average airgun shooter who has no experience with ELR shotting and relies on physical evidence.
I will present other indirect evidences that show the unrealness of the whole event sometime later.
main video: Worlds Record Longest Air Rifle Shot 2058 yards, 1.17 miles . Texan .308
second video : Worlds longest Air Rifle Shot 2058 yards , 1.17 miles. Commentary Walkthrough
Direct evidence:
Too short flight time (between shot and impact) for 2058yr:
At 5:39 (main video) there is a shot at an alleged distance of 2058yr. The time from the shot to the observer speaking about the place of impact is around 5.7s
At 8:20 (main video) there is a shot at an alleged distance of 2058yr. The time from the shot to the observer speaking about the place of impact is again around 5.7s
At 10:14 (main video) there is a shot at an alleged distance of 2058yr. The time from the shot to the observer speaking about the place of impact is again around 5.6s
so the average time from the projectile flight video is 5.7s
Shooter states that the muzzle velocity in the second video at time 34:25 and that the maximum was MV:1000-1020fps
No one has measured the ballistic coefficient, but they estimate that it could be around G1 0.3
They report that the shooting took place at whittington center shooting range adress: 34025 US-64, Raton, NM 87740- therefore we used an altitude of 7215ft ( 2200m) above sea level and pressure we will estimate on 30.09 in = 1018HPa
From these data it is possible to calculate using a ballistics program that the flight duration for 2058yr, G1 0.3 and 1020fps should correspond to a time of about 8.9s.
So the difference between the physical reality and the measured time of the flight length of the bullet in the video is
more than 3s ! Even if we used the super BC G1 0.479, which I have a 155gr Berger Target Hybrid .308 bullet for firearms and and used speed of 1300fps (400m/s significantly supersonic), the flight time will not be lower than 6.7s
conclusion: this is clear physical evidence provided directly from the video that there was no way one could have fired at the stated 2058yr, at most it was 1400yards, but we didn't account for observer lag (seeing the impact and the first reaction of the body ), so realistically it won't be more than 1300 yards.
Another question is whether we can even talk about BC 0.3 for this type of slug that does not have a boat tail.
I consulted this part of the evidence with the US team, who themselves achieved the world record for the longest hit of several miles but from firearms, and they confirmed to me that the time of the flight of the projectile does not fit so that it could be a distance of 2058yr.
Circumstantial evidence:
A small tilt of the barrel axis required for shooting at 2058 yr:
here in the photo you can see my barrel tilt when when I completed my new world record on 1 mile. This shooting required 230 mRad, which corresponds to a 13-degree tilt of the barrel axis to the target, and you can also measure this tilt in the photo.
View attachment 396724 Here are pictures of the rifle tilt used in this scam video.
View attachment 396726 you can see how little barrel angle is used here.
In this photo, the position of the alleged target is marked, which is not on the same plane, but is on a hill, so it is necessary to increase the angle by the difference in the height of the target and the shooter.
View attachment 396727 in the first photo you can also see that a front bag was used under the bipod to raise the axis of the barrel a little. The increase itself is a maximum of one inch compared to if the rifle was mounted on a bipod.
But in these two photos, Mr. Ton Jones and his team state that he was shooting at 1050 yards. From the second photo you can see that in this case the target was only slightly higher than the position of the shooter, it was definitely not as high as in the alleged 2058yr.
View attachment 396728 View attachment 396730 so, to change from 1050yr to 2058yr, the shooter raised the barrel by a maximum only of 1 inch, but according to the calculated ballistic data, the aim of the
barrel needs to be increased by more than double! As I wrote at the beginning of the video, there is a lot of other nonsense that shows the unreality of the whole shooting, but I consider these to be one of the most important ones that someone should have pointed out immediately after the publication of this scam video.
A small mitigating circumstance for the author Mr. Ton Jones is that he worked for many years in reality shows in Hollywood and this show that represent everything possible, except realism but that doesn't excuse him and other other persons from intentional fraud on the entire world airgun shooting community.
Unfortunately, these video scams, and he is far from the only one, only make the real shooters, who do not cheat, feel frustrated that they do not achieve similar performances as in these scam videos.
Of course Mr. Ton Jones can defend himself against these serious allegations here and present evidence to the contrary, but the fact that he prefers to turn off all comments under the video about the record shows that he knows that I am not the only one who noticed this fraud.
I personally would not have come forward with these serious allegations unless I was 100% sure of fraud and if I am wrong I will publicly apologize to Mr. Ton Jones and take the consequences. But I know one thing for sure, physics does not lie, unlike people.
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