Posted on 01/30/2021 6:51:33 AM PST by Onthebrink
A tool is only as useful as the person who uses it, and when it comes to military small arms a weapon is only as deadly as the shooter who fires it. Give the most refined marksmen rifle to an untrained individual and it won’t turn that person into a sniper.
While it will always be the shooter, not the firearm that scores the kills, some rifles have become legendary for how their trained users were able to make such impressive shots.
With that said, here is my list of the top five most deadly sniper rifles of all time.
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Is blog pimp a caliber or a rifling twist?
No rifle is dangerous unless used wrong or defective.
You have some competition for crappiest firearms blog.
the humble AR10 belongs on any list of “best sniper rifles” IMO. A quality AR10 is capable of bolt action like accuracy and rapid follow up shots making it the ideal weapon for engaging multiple targets or for recovering from a miss or for providing precision suppression fire or for ricochet fire or for shooting through cover, etc. It should be number one on the list IMO.
A sniper rifle is only as dangerous as the person behind it.
Simo Hayha made very good use of a straight stick Mosin Nagant.
My buddy has a Barrett .50 and 500 rounds.
Prolly need to ask all the one shot sniper killed folks out there which one they think was the best one they got shot with.(?)
Nothing in sub .299 caliber should be considered.
A rifle in the hand of a motivated Marine.
Dragunovs are on the list. They are not sniper rifles. They are squad battle rifles, meant to increase the firepower range of a squad, kind of like the army uses the M-14 EBR. EBR = Enhanced Battle Rifle.
That is the accepted name for this class of weapon. Everyone gets twitterpated by the Dragunov’s cool “Soviet Industrial” styling, and the scope (me too), but it’s a battle rifle.
All rifles are potentially dangerous. My rifles are proven dangerous to deer.
Surprisingly, .50 BMG is one of the few calibers you can still buy easily, and whose price hasn't gone through the roof (relative to pre-panic days, anyway...)
I will add this one, built by the great Mike Palazzo of Beretta fame:
McMillan Stock
Kreiger medium weight barrel at 24”, cryogenticly treated. 1:11 twist.
1935 Yugoslavian Mauser action, jeweled and tuned.
Topped with a Shepherd range-finding scope.
It shoots 180gr Ballistic Tips at .5 MOA. From the first shot to the last. All day long.
30-06.
Yep, just look how one former marine with a Carcano rifle changed history...
Scores like that can only be produced with very heavy bull barreled target rifles.
Nothing you would want to carry.
I never qualified for sniper, but 45 years after leaving the Navy, I shot a water moccasin at 45 yards, through the head, at night, illuminated with a hand held pocket flashlight using a Ruger .22LR bolt action rifle and a Crosman pellet rifle scope. (When you get to your 70s and your eyesight is failing you absolutely need a scope.
You mean like a B.A.R. (16-19 lbs)
Or an M-60 (23 lb)?
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