In Hollywood movies... a sniper is like a magician. [pause] A calm breath... a slow trigger pull... and a perfect headshot from a mile away. It’s dramatic. It’s clean. And it is almost... entirely... fake.
In the professional world of long-range ballistics, a headshot isn’t a mark of skill — it’s a reckless gamble. But why? Why would the most elite marksmen on Earth ignore the most lethal part of the body?
To understand that... we have to look at the cold, mathematical reality of the Center of M