200 meters
200 yards is long shot?
In Finnish army we did shoot to 150 meters in 7.62 RK 62 assault rifle and i did shoot 18 out of 18 in 2€ area. Snipers are shooting a tad longer shots imo...
maybe you meant 2000 yards?
I wasn't going to say anything but at 200 meters the military is still using iron sights training, or were last I knew. They do seem to be in love with toys now.
Police snipers are unlikely to take a shot for real. If they do it will probably be sub 200 yards or meters. A police sniper shot a gun out of a guy's hand, the shot was only sixty or seventy yards and his confidence was high enough to take the shot.
I have lost track of the military long range kill record, it was about two miles last I knew. At one time the record holder had two confirmed kills at the maximum range. He used his first hit as a sighter and quickly fired again.
The military guys usually have a spotter with them on a computer, sometimes the scope is packing it's own computer. No "Kentucky Windage" you dial in the setting on the scope and trust the optics to settle before the first shot. More trust in a "snake" than I have but then again, they don't have much choice.
They are dialing in scopes the way we used to dial in loads shooting benchrest. Made the range owner crazy watching me load 28 pieces of brass or less, shoot, reload the brass, shoot, cycles over and over. I could wear out a barrel before I wore out those thirty pieces of brass even shooting loads above 70,000PSI. I have a backyard I can shoot over 200 yards in now, wish I had my BR equipment back! It ended up in good hands.
Hu