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2010-12-12 Afghanistan

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Posted by tu3031 2010-12-12 11:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-12 11:22|| 2010-12-12 11:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, I know what I want for Christmas.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-12-12 14:40|| 2010-12-12 14:40|| Front Page Top

#3 1.2 miles is impressive, as a standard issue rifle, but I would augment it with one, extra special rifle, for the "first chair" sniper in unit.

This rifle is a .300 Winchester Magnum, so I would kick that one up to .50 cal, like a Barrett M82, which would give that sniper an additional 1,900 feet (5,906 ft) effective range.

When you want to send the very best. Downrange.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-12 15:33|| 2010-12-12 15:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Arg. Sorry. That range is 3/4ths of a mile, or 1.2km.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-12 15:37|| 2010-12-12 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 The US government purchased MK 248 MOD 1 .300 Winchester Magnum match-grade ammunition for use in .300 Winchester Magnum sniper rifles like the U.S. Navy Mk.13 SWS or reconfigured M24 SWS's. This ammunition was developed as a .300 Winchester Magnum Match Product Improvement (PIP) and uses the 14.26 g (220 gr) Sierra MatchKing Hollow Point Boat Tail (HPBT) very-low-drag bullet fired at a nominal muzzle velocity of 869 m/s (2,850 ft/s) ± 15.2 m/s (50 ft/s).

I confirmed this information in 3 different articles including:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM2010

Anyone familiar with this bullet would know that it is a target round and not designed to expand or explode on impact. But I find it hard to believe it could be Nato approved. Human rights activists will be howling themselves into spasms and convultions over the hollow point design.

Posted by junkiron 2010-12-12 17:17|| 2010-12-12 17:17|| Front Page Top

#6 This rifle and ammo gave me a major stiffy.

I can rejoin right?

Posted by DarthVader 2010-12-12 20:47|| 2010-12-12 20:47|| Front Page Top

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