[GarySpFc]

Nah, it was a great shot.

Still, I like the snipers using the .50 caliber Barrets. They really reach out and get ya. Take a look at this ad.

http://www.barrettrifles.com/

[Flavius]

Barrett Firearms Mfg., Inc
Endorses NRA Boycott of ConocoPhillips
Headlines
Tennessee is not Oklahoma and Barrett is not an oil company… Barrett employees always have and always will come to work armed if they so wish as long as they have the Tennessee state-mandated carry permit.

Ronnie Barrett, President of Barrett Firearms, neither encourages nor discourages the practice but recognizes it as a right guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution for all citizens. The fact that many employees do keep a handgun on their person at work naturally plays a part of the physical security for the facility.

Like most states, the tradition of hunting runs strong in Tennessee and during those seasons many of the employees legally keep their hunting rifles and shotguns in their cars and trucks at work.

In over 22 years of employees exercising this constitutional right there has never been an incident involving the discharge of a personal owned firearm.

Ronnie Barrett encourages all citizens to follow the NRA position and boycott any company that violates the law, and particularly this, the sinister attempt of citizen control though violations of our basic freedoms.

God Bless our country and the U.S. Constitutio

http://www.barrettrifles.com/

[DocRock]

"Nah, it was a great shot.

Still, I like the snipers using the .50 caliber Barrets. They really reach out and get ya."

I have a relative, (name withheld by his request), that has completed sniper training recently. I received a fax of a letter from his commander stating he acquired the longest qualifying shot EVER in sniper training. He was using a .50

[databoss]

Actually the fifty is too noisy and leaves a directional echo back to the shooting team... the M24 is harder to back track on the signature...

[skimask]

The barret can cause damage even if the round misses the target. If the round passes within inches of the intended target, it can sever a limb.

[El Gato]

Still, I like the snipers using the .50 caliber Barrets. They really reach out and get ya.

But tactically they aren't always very practical. If the snipers have to more or less keep up with the infantry, be it from vehicles or on foot, that big old .50 gets to be a bit much to lug around. It also gives away your position big time, because of the blast from the muzzle brake.

The Barret, the M-24 that these guys were using, and the M-21 (an accurrized M-14) are all tools of the trade, with each having it's place and function. There's a fair amount of overlap of course.