Brit’s new sniper rifle
What, they didn’t go with a .50?
Up next, VPC to crap pants over 338 Lapua Magnum.
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March 7th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
One of the groups already has, calling it a “medium-range sniper rifle” or somesuch.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
It’s evil. It has a scope. It has a suppressor. It has a folding stock. It can kill at over a mile. It’s green. Wait a minute. Green ain’t evil. Leprechauns are green. The Great Gazoo was green. Cain’t be evil-must be kind and benevolent. ‘Sides, EGR just doesn’t make sense.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
What’s interesting is the comments; most of the British seem to think this is some kind of secret super weapon that the enemy cannot be allowed to acquire, or there will be all sorts of slaughter. It’s just a rifle, guys.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
But it has a cheek piece to make it more comfortable, should your cheeks get tired…
March 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Yeah, it’s kind of funny how people actually think all you do is look through the scope, see the person clear as day, pull the trigger, and they fall. No need to consider bullet drop, wind, moving targets, breath control. They assume that the rifle does all the work and somehow it’s some magical, sooper seekret tool.
Ignorance is the VPC / Brady Bunch’s greatest (and only) tool.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
This was a fair and informed story:
“Training an infantryman to become a sniper can take up to a year, and only the most talented soldiers are allowed even to start the demanding courses.
First a candidate must master the technical aspects of shooting, learning to judge the strength of the wind extremely accurately using a variety of clues, and to adjust aim accordingly.
Just as importantly a sniper must learn to track his prey, move into position with extreme stealth, camouflage himself perfectly whether in natural cover or a battle-scarred city, and then disappear just as stealthily.”
A gun without a man is just a worthless piece of iron.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
They already have crapped their pants over .338 Lapua. It’s in one of their sniper “reports”.
The VPC noted how the IRA used .50 BMG to kill British soldiers. They apparently used them at the startling distance of… 300 meters.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
“most of the British seem to think this is some kind of secret super weapon”
Yeah no kidding. Fools.
That would be the .408 Chey Tac! 😛
March 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
A little pricey.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Weird, The History Channel did a four part series on snipers a couple years ago and feature the AW Super Magnum during their segment on British snipers and showed them training with it. Just now reaching service? That’s one long eval period.
Nice gun. Very nice gun, in fact. If I had the coin, I’d buy one as an alternative to the mighty Barrett. Good to 1200 yards with accuracy and practice. Just can’t afford to feed it. Like the .50, I’d be on the line feeding rounds counting, “$2, $4, $6, $8…new car”.
At least this way I won’t be drooling on the stock.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
By most accounts the 338 LM is a more accurate round than the 50 BMG.
The rifle is lighter as is the ammo and in my mind at least it is a better anti-personnel platofrm than the 50 BMG. I looked at both ballitically and only reason I might still get a 50 BMG instead of a 338 LM is the coolness factor.
For anti-material work the 50 BMG wins out.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Speaking of groups, there was a link to a bunch of teenagers that destroyed a house and had groupsex everywhere in Britian. I guess it’s becoming more common overthere..
BTW, for all the kool $n1p3rz behind enemy lines, better pack a lot of ammo for that over-priced walking stick ’cause habib ain’t got no .338 laupa under his turban.