they are waiting for the smart ammo to be developed
they are waiting for the smart ammo to be developed
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The good old days..... Right?
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If I remember correctly, aren't you Distinguished? You ain't very pretty, like me.
Semper Fi,
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a friend here had several 1 shot kills on eastern Canadian moose using a .308Win that he was extremely accurate with... one guy in his hunting party got to riding him so hard about using a "little gun" that Kevin went out and bought a Rem 700 in .338mag...he couldn't hit anything with it... had it re-crowned & glass bedded by a dam good smith.. still couldn't hit with it... one of our friends went out with him to figure out what was wrong & did the empty chamber test with him too.... same result as your son...he had a terrible flinch too..........He finally mastered the rifle... but it took a lot of time & loads to get rid of his flinch.
Reading the article........it sounds like the sniper teams are not being deployed correctly.
If you fire more than one shot from your hide, you can be ranged and fired upon. Sounds more like they are being used for interdiction fire or as marksmen rather than snipers. Using snipers incorrectly is a recipe for getting good men killed.
Yes, a Barrett would be nice, but I can't imagine humping that up and down hills/mtns. Even a good 338 Lapua is gonna add 6 pounds of weight. Going to a 338 RUM or Edge would keep the weight down, but recoil would increase. A brake would help, but noise/blast would increase. I'm sure a brake exists to limit blast and giving your position away. Of course if the USMC put a can on all their 338's - problem solved!!
The M27 in 5.56 mentioned above doesn't like like enough firepower for distances required of a Marine sniper. I'm I missing something?
It's not asniper rifle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M27_In...utomatic_Rifle