[Sender]

The Soviet Dragunov and its copies used for sniping use the old rimmed 7.62x54R cartridge from the Moisin-Nagant. It is a very powerful round, bigger than the 308. Most of the ammo for it is steel core so it just zips on through without expanding, but it can tumble and do lots of damage.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Any semi-autos are poor choices for sniper rifles.

Too much accuracy is lost in the inconsistent feeding and poor chamber alignment that semi's are known for.

Most long range sniper rifles are highly refined bolt actions that have been tuned to great levels of close tollerances.

I prefer the M-40A1. (A target version of the Remington 700 BDL) It was capable of consistent 2 inch average groups at 500 meters.

Atmospheric conditions oftentimes dictated the performance and results varied. But for the most part no semi-auto could even come close to the accuracy of such a weapon.

[tcostell]

Now the 91/30 ... there is a sniper rifle. So simple even a Muslim could take care of it, and accurate as hell. Shame about the safety and weak scope though. Put an 8x scope on it and it would probably work well even today. And you can buy 50 of them with 10,000 rounds of ammo for about $5,000 US.

[org.whodat]

rimmed 7.62x54R And did you are did you not read the statement that it used currently available us ammo??? The Russians have been making an AK style sportier chamber in 308 for about ten are so years now. They also have a similarly weapon chambered in 410 shotgun.