| From: | Sanction <david.s.thompson@****.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Sniper Rifles (Was Re- |
| Date: | Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:29:27 -0500 |
>wrote:
>> No one said it was easy to shoot someone from 400m. It isn't point and
>>shoot, snipers have to take into account the ammount of drop and aim
"high,"
>>crosswinds also have to be taken into account, and they would be a factor no
>>matter what. Wind can do some evil things to a bullet in flight -- source:
>>a Marine I know.
>
>Sure, but then I trained with some Royal Green Jackets snipers who
>pointed out a few facts of life too. Remember, snipers have to
>_estimate_ range. They also have to estimate wind, and allow for weather
>and target movement. This is why sniping at long ranges is difficult.
Isn't that what I said?
>>
>>BTW, why are you all assuming that sniping rifles are subsonic -- that seems
>>ridiculous. Why would you take a rifle designed to fire accurately over a
>>great range, and then cripple it with a slow round.
>
>Because these _aren't_ designed to fire accurately over long ranges. If
>they were, they would match at least the range for MMGs if not HMGs.
>These are assassination weapons designed to minimise the exposure of the
>firer.
I guess that the point is, I'm assuming (IE, my opinion and most likely
wrong) that the sniping rifles are supposed to be FASA's version of an
accurate long-range rifle. Perhaps the Ranger Arms is just a minimum
exposer murder weapon, but surely the Barret 121, a military version --
which has no silencer and doesn't break down like the Ranger -- is designed
to kill from afar. Yet, it too has relatively short ranges.
>But, again, if it's a precision, tight-toleranced high-velocity .300 Win
>Mag or .338 Lapua, why is it less accurate than a standard-issue medium
>machine gun firing less powerful ammunition?
Because the rules don't reflect RL perfectly, any suprise there -- that is
why this list is in existance.
>
>There are no precision high-velocity sniper rifles in SR at the moment.
Hell, that'll have to be fixed then.
--Sanction
