Depends on how long you’re willing to have your head and shoulders above cover while you’re aiming.
The enemy tends to shoot back.
Tracking Point has a remote viewing option - just hold the rifle up (1 hand and arm exposed, that’s it, if the gun is on a sandbag or other stable rest), aim the shot on your cell phone or iPad, shoot and get to cover. Not cheap for us civilians, but bought in quantity by Uncle, it’d be a lot cheaper (and the simple financial cost savings would dramatically expand as less of our soldiers and Marines were wounded or killed, since they’d all be equivalent to the best snipers). That doesn’t include the reduction in misery for our side, which I cannot reduce to a quantifiable amount of dollars.
Chainmail wrote: “Depends on how long you’re willing to have your head and shoulders above cover while you’re aiming. The enemy tends to shoot back.”
And, he tends to stay under cover. It doesn’t matter how accurate your weapon is or how far it will reach if you can’t see the target.
That’s one of the reasons we adopted the 5.56 round. There simply aren’t any engageable targets at 700 yards.