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Medieval English longbows could fire an arrow more than 300 yards and required so much strength that the skeletons of medieval archers can by identified by their enlarged left arms.
When firing the Germans biggest cannon in WW1, they had to move 300 yards away and fire it electrically. They were still so close they required cotton wadding in their eyes, nose and ears, and fired it with their mouth open to prevent the gun from blowing out their ear drums.
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Mel Gibson removed a scene from the film Hacksaw Ridge, in which Desmond Doss saved 75 Americans on a battlefield. The real Doss gave up his stretcher for another wounded man, was shot by a sniper, then crawled 300 yards to safety. Gibson felt the audience wouldn't find the scene believable.
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The main weapon of the War of 1812 was the muzzle-loading musket. It fired a lead ball. The musket could only fire as far as 100 yards while rifles could fire as far as 300 yards away.
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In 1914, British training emphasized rapid-fire marksmanship and the average British soldier was able to hit a man-sized target fifteen times a minute, at a range of 300 yards (270 m) with his Lee-Enfield rifle
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The RAF Fauld explosion, the largest non-nuclear explosion to ever occur in the UK. Between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of ordnance exploded, killing about 70 people and creating a crater 300 feet (91 m) deep and 250 yards (230 m) wide.
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A law exists in the UK that bans the firing of a cannon within 300 yards of a dwelling. However offenders would only be fined after a warning of their causing an "annoyance", with the fine not exceeding £200
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A British WW1 bolt action shooting competition called the Mad Minute. The record set in 1908 was 36 hits on a 48 inch target at 300 yards with a Lee Enfield
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The Army has two surveillance "blimps" in Baltimore. They are 300 yards long, 10000 feet high in the air, and can "see" from North Carolina to Boston to Lake Erie.
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A Cheetah can only run for short sprints of up to 300 yards
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The quantity of Linen required for bandages for mummies in Ancient Egypt measures upwards of 300 yards in length.
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At the PGA Texas Open in 1992, A journeyman named Carl Cooper hit a 787 yard drive. The ball bounced and rolled downhill on a concrete cart path and eventually ended up 300 yards past the hole.
The British Military "Mad Minute" drill of firing 15 rounds with a bolt action rifle at a target 300 yards away made the Germans in WWI at the battle of Ypres think they were being attacked by machine guns. - source
Desmond Doss from Hacksaw Ridge crawled 300 yards to safety with a compound fracture after being hit by a sniper and he waited for aid for five hours after being wounded by a grenade. - source
