Originally Posted by ShootemupTex
Originally Posted by AU338MAG
Originally Posted by M48scout
The description I’ve read is a vintage Mauser. I wonder if it was sporterized and scoped. I know all of us snipers here on Aldeer can make a similar shot with iron sights, but a non-scope rifle, under intense pressure, over 100 yards, presumably without the ability to carefully tweak point of impact to ammo choice … neck shot?? I don’t know. I wonder if the rifle found was a planted diversion
Wasn't intended to be a neck shot. Charlie was wearing a ballistic plate vest and the bullet ricochet off the plate into his neck.

Even with iron sight, an average shooter can make a center mass shot at 125 yards with a little practice.

If you can stand to watch the slow-mo close up, you can see the whole plate carrier absorb the initial impact under his shirt. There appears to be a hole at the top of his shirt where the top of the plate would be. Common tactic to take out someone wearing plates. Plates tend to send shrapnel when hit. When from an elevated position, they can predictably bounce up into the head pretty much intact. It looks like that is what happened here. Same thing happens when you try shoot a charging bear in the head.
I don’t think this guy had those skills