YellowBlue RC for all of the cod guys there, yes there is a diffrence

nguyen danny kind of but not entirely as snipers work in 2 man teams and dm`s will walk with the rest of their squad

YellowBlue RC They're basically just snipers that are move with the squad rather than the emplaced nature of a sniper. Yes the rifle they use'd be different, but the idea's the same, accuracy at what's considered long range.

DETHREAPER11 yep " Yes the rifle they use'd be different, but the idea's the same"

YellowBlue RC I ran with a few snipers that were in my unit, I used a 240 most of the time, and occasionally the 249 depending on the situation. But Yeah, I knew plenty of men that were snipers running and gunning with combat infantry like myself. So Yeah I guess you can call me a spotter too haha.

One has to define what a sniper is. To me it's a scout that gathers military intelligence and picks off targets at ranges high priority targets that exceed the range of the common fighter. Usually they were called assassins, ninjas or spies.

precisely ... then later that era there was an event called sniping or soo called Trying to hit a bird called Sniper.. and the sniper theme was born.... i dont know if it true but what the heck

Got That snipe not sniper :) an english game bird, its the english term, and its quite a small bird.

peter forden thankyou for in-lighting me

Got That wow that was quick :) a web sniper :D

Simo Hayha used iron sights only.

@@DelawareDevil thats the point

SOID! THE! M10! SOID! EXCELLENCE!!! FOCALS!!!

Ben Asmus and if he had a gun as inaccurate as a musket hiw many would he have. the weapon needs the right barrel length and rifling to make a distant shot with enough force to kill, other than that its the person.

Ben Asmus the gun has to be capable of consistent group sizing. If the rifle cant make a group smaller than 2 feet at 200 yards, you will not be able to consistently hit the target with it. exaggerated example, but you get the point

Apparently the bog standard M/28-30 (finnish version of the Mosin-Nagant rifle) he used had just the right barrel length.

Gnomleif Finnish Nagants are fully capable of sufficient accuracy for a sniper. People act like all snipers are extreme-long-range precision shooters. They're not! They need to be pretty good at a wide variety of things before precision shooting even becomes a factor.

A musket by definition is NOT a rifle...So that is not an apples to apples comparison.

That's what I was thinking pretty sure a 50 againt cinder block would just smash it to bits rather then just penatrate it pretty sure the system there talking about was made to go through steel lol

They were talking about a specific type of ammunition. The raufoss mk 211 ammo type is basically a 12.7mm grenade shot from a M107. The projectile travels fast enough through the cinderblocks for it to detonate on the other side covering everything in shrapnel.

i'm unimpressed with the fact that the stuff they said in here is immature at best, the m25 quote on quote sniper rifle whats iraqveteran8888 "what is a sniper rifle?" obviously is a modified version of the M14.

ye, that raufoss ammo for the m107 is norwegian made, probably the only interresting fact.

I was quite disappointed with pretty much all the facts tbh.

Get no scoped.

Omg 360 noscope

+Bill Clinton pfff another try hard gamer

Omg 360 NSCPE MLG PRO 20XX X XX XXX 333 333 333 ILLIUMINIDATI

+Bill Clinton It is illogical to swinf them in real life, weapons like the barrett are heavier than they look.

I am honored to say we still thank you for your service

Never say never James, in these uncertain times......just keep your powder dry......I do.....

85-93 was 11c . same here

You are lucky you never killed anyone, could really ' mess ' with your head.

You don't buy insurance because you expect to have a wreck, you buy it for the peace of mind.

my point a rifle isnt going to snipe some one

Chris Ragsdale a rifle makes a sniper a sniper rifle )

Technically speaking a sniper rifle is definitely a long range precision rifle that was made to kill people, not animals, and used by a Sniper as you basically stated....except for a few exceptions. For example, the mosin nagant 91/30 is actually considered a sniper rifle. It was designed to kill people and had no other design purposes at the time other than killing people as well as at the time it was a precision long range rifle that was used by snipers and though a certified sniper may not use them today they are actually in all definitions a sniper rifle due to the characteristics and original purposes. It was also used by some of the most dangerous snipers in the world.

pretty sure half the rifles were DMR, not sniper anyway

And green tips

Are you sure this is correct? The U.S. had snipers in the civil war.

In The Shape Of Human I ment Revolutionary War

In The Shape Of Human it is true america first started "sniping" but they did not organize them as a group it was more just guys that wanted to do long range rather than get shot point blank

***** me too I said but i said Russia

Germans used snipers with their superior scoped rifles. Russians trained snipers to counter that tactic and evolved into having 2 people functioning as a sniper unit. Also they made better sniper weapon later on =)

The M 21 worked well.

Same here. Only fun I had in boot camp! Semper Fi.

1979 platoon 2041 M16 steel sights heart shots at 500 meters OOH RAHH

Parris Island June 1973 M14 Semper Fi Bro EXPERT

Ditto here. 1968 platoon high shooter. Edison range was just freaking fun.

What a great comment. I needn't read anything else. You made my day!!

Yeah

I think they are after a historically accurate and demonstratable answer.

@@babyjesusbutplug ...hey this is KZfaq, this is not where you come for anything "historically accurate and demonstratable"

@@cspace1234nz my mistake,

So, your dad had you shooting 660 grain .50 caliber ammo when you turned 12 years old?

@@eog5038 Yup EOG, it's the truth. I'm 58yrs old. My dad fought in WWII, grew up in the great depression. I did in fact "help" him build his .50 cal Hawken rifle when I was 11. I was not allowed to fire it til age 12. Edit: l dont know the bullet weight.

...I was 9...

i be knowin dat since i was 4

@@sawyerhuff7316 Luv u young lady.❤💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

7.62 is still the wrong measurement for that round...it is technically 7.83mm.

Unless NATO changes its nomenclature on the caliber. Won't happen but still.

Ratkill9000 and obviously you don't realize that almost EVERY cartridge, whether metric or standard, experiences this phenomenon.

GuitarGuy0008 You must be an idiot to think that I already do not know this.

Ratkill9000 haha, yes, because intelligence is measured by my knowledge or lack thereof of YOUR personal knowledge bank. Ignorance is sadly rampant in today's society. You should note that YOUR comment made reference to the 7.62 being actually a different size as if this were some sort of abnormality, whereas my comment pointed out that this is not the case.

Nor does the 360 noscope

there is a tiny percent chance that if you did do a 360 noscope but it has a very high chance of failing

it doesnt do the 420 swagscope meeh

Fakt 7: Hardscoping is for skrabs

thats not what my cod game says

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WANT to

*american sniper rifles

Ya😥😥

What do you need to know about sniper rifles?

Plus another 10 checking comments

+Pfletch83 YR THE GUY WHO TALKED ON japan vids hahaha wowo you talk a lot about guns buddy

splinter2121 Yeah I'm a gun geek and a bit of a history buff.

***** But a Sniper by any other name is still just as deadly. And factually the snipe was the name of a wary and hard to spot native bird of India if I remember correctly.

was it not Scotland to be specific ? The royal gamekeepers ( third generation ) were the first to train in long distance shooting back to the empire days .Redcoats would be taking to Scotland and taught how to stalk and shoot deer from long distances ? I'm not sure but my readings came to that conclusion

+Martin Watts This is true I was told this by my co from 3rd para the term sniper is from the Scottish game keepers who used home made ghillie suits to hunt birds called Snipe

Bah. It’d be same thing for for all militaries

Tac.338 2 1/2 mile shot. That's an impressive American rifle

@@DavidGomezRgr3_75 Canada: Let me introduce myself

Very true

Idk i think those would be more considered as marksman the first country to have a sniping program by name or at least translated as this was germany durring wwII

very right. that can be depicted and seen in a scene of the movie THE PATRIOT the war between the brits and americans were in a charge the person leading the charge shoots a british officer before he can allow the command to fire

not wrong - but what about the group of extra ordinary marksmen in the US civil war ... they were trained on one specific rifle named after its inventor, ... i gotta do some research but I'd say US Civil War Confederate Marksmen and after that, German infantrists in WW-I must have been the first "Snipers" so to speak

J4NN3K​ yep, we figured out that snipers were an asset during the revolutionary war. It was kind of our way to out force the enemy through guerrilla tactics. We had the Kentucky rifle, also know as the Pennsylvania rifle for 40 years before the war. We had a bunch of them reaching out to about minute of man at 500 yards. We used small groups armed with rifles instead of musket to target key individuals like officers, even we thought it to be barbaric but nessecary to win the war. So with a wide smile we created the first designated marksman groups, without a doubt some old school recon style sniper and spotters were armed with them. We had the technology, but it wasn't commonplace in 1775.

wilsterdude123 what is a designated marsksman? What makes him different from a sniper? Why is he not a sniper? Is it really that big a deal that you call a dmr a sniper rifle.

Catwithanm16 Designated Marksman use semi auto rifles that are used to around 600 yards. Scout Snipers use bolt action rifles that are capable of landing shots beyond 1000 yards.

Will Stromquist It's not that simple of a distinction - SVD is pretty much designated marksman rifle, semi-automatic capable of engaging targets at 600-1300m with the PSO-1 sight. M82 is anti-materiel, sniper rifle, and it's semi-automatic too.

Tomasz Wota The M82/A3/107A1 isn't a DMR. It's a purpose built anti materiel rifle. Sure, it's semi automatic, but it uses the .50 BMG cartridge, which can operate at longer ranges and will, instead of just making a hole, completely dismember and almost cut someone in half. In terms of the SVD, what I was saying is: purpose built DMRs like the SVD, SR25, M39 EBR, etc are meant for filling the gap between infantry and a scout sniper. 200-600 yard engagements. DMRs are fitted with optics that usually max at 10x while sniper rifles are fitted with greater magnification optics for longer distance shooting.

Will Stromquist > _The M82/A3/107A1 isn't a DMR. It's a purpose built anti materiel rifle._ Huh? Let's see what I wrote: > _M82 is anti-materiel, sniper rifle, and it's semi-automatic too._ And that additionally was in context of: > _It's not that simple of a distinction [...]_ So I don't know where you got the idea that I wrote anything about M82 being DMR. *I specifically wrote it's an anti-materiel, sniper rifle*, juxtaposed it with SVD which while similarly semi-automatic is a DMR, to show that simple distinction of "semi-automatics are DMR, bolt action are sniper rifles" is incorrect.

;/

Well, giving that sharpshooters and snipers are two different things.. I couldn't say who the first country was to use optics.

David Gilde I think it might have been the german empire, but my comment was about the fact he said that germans had m91/30 rifles

Snipers and Designated Marksmen both fall under the term Sharpshooter...

MrPanos2000 What you mean they didn't use the Springfield? =O

Germans or Nazis as of they were still there those days were the first ones to equip a Kar98 with a 8X magnification and take it on the battlefield.

+Thanh Tran Further, the M110 is not a "ground up" or groundbreaking design. It is heavily based on the Mk-11 rifle system which has been in use by the Navy and USMC for many years.The writer(s) of this video are somewhat misinformed on several "facts".

+Thanh Tran The svd is a dmr not a sniper tho

Prime Slayer nor is the M110

+Thanh Tran You are forgetting the fact that the SVD was based on the AK weapons platform

Thanh Tran Well yeah i guess

I guess old school isn't completely gone.

I was born in the U.S.A. and all my life I had believed that ( Snipes ) were a ( Make Believe ) bird , every time my Father and his friends would go out ( Snipe ) hunting they never found or shot any , But sure did come home Drunk as Skunks , and I never understood How Skunks got the blame for being Drunks either !!!

Wasn’t it the Scottish who added the ghillie suit to the equation?

@@proudtennessean6152 Correct. They were Game Wardens who used the suits to ambush wolves. it was a tool used to hide from Wolves to protect the flock.

I recall this is an accurate statement.

Bruno Dzogovic depends on the situations and what era the war is taking place.

Bruno Dzogovic trust me they do shoot, rob furlong a canadian sniper who currently hold second longest kill shot used all his canadian issued ammo in about 2 weeks. thats ALOT now if there is no activity or he/she is under orders to not fire, thats a different story

Of course, that's idiomatic expression, although many times snipers have "recon and report" missions.

Dassault Aimpoint Didn't he get that kill shot by using some hand made ammo from a U.S. sniper? Don't get me wrong it's impressive, just thought I saw this on some video, he was out of ammo and U.S. troops were the first ones to resupply them.

Yes it was with American made ammunition

SOID! THE! M10!

How about... The M82 is not a sniper rifle and putting 12.7x99 into people is a huge waste of money? 'Cause not a lot of people seem to know that

Marcus C yea I agree and what's worse is the five thousand kids commenting about cod as if that's an accurate representation of real life

true and smart

Its a Made for TV thing, you know how they are

Yeap, They might as well said that artillery is deadly to the sinper....

And why do we need to know it

What is an m24 then

@@i_do_coding M24 is a completley different gun

@@domo7415 yea but its m so

What you don't know, and what they don't mention is that the M25 is heavy as hell. Ergonomically awful, and not really that accurate by precision standards. We made a huge mistake not choosing the FAL as our gun instead of the M14 back in the day. The M25 is just an M14 stuffed into an aluminum chassis made by EBR. They look badass! After owning one and shooting it, I find it's just bad and I'm the ass for dropping almost 3k for it. I sold it and built an AR10 instead. That rifle is exceptional!

...especially when the target bunch more or less spotted your position and is setting up mortar. Who gets faster?

+MeltDown Gaming some people*

Ikr I'm really confused

+JollyShot are or where you a sniper in the military. Obviously these two other people don't understand that you know a lot about snipers (taking a guess because of what you said).

Shaykh Yerbouti you are wrong about the french cutting off the fingers of captured archers - it is a myth without any historical fact.

@@BMH1965 the Welsh cut of the fingers of English bowman

Was thinking was the afrikaners but they would have just been good single shots

Disagree, they may have used sniper rifles however they really had no concept of how to use it differently from standard rifle. The first military to PROLIFICLY adopt use and TRAIN snipers AS snipers was Germany just befor and during ww1

Actually the Americans were using snipers with rifles that were better than any others on the battlefield at the time to take out British command from distances the British weren't able to return small arms fire to any effect during the Revolutionary War in the 1770's.

5 things people don't know. That's a pretty famous thing.

actually it's the Canadians

+Mystic PB it was until the British again did better...

prove your source

Holy shit i never knew thats a crazy long shot

same here

Wrong channel bud, go search for others for that crappy shit.

Mikhail The Russian How about the ASVK?

Life isn't COD

Will Stromquist Dude, that's anti-material i didn't want to include it, but yeah why not.

Matyu Thm all serious sniper rifles, are bolt action

It has its uses, advantages and disadvantages. When it comes to shooting, you're always trading one thing for another. The M107 has a lot of range and power but it also weighs a lot and can be seen firing from a long, long distance. They also tend to be inaccurate. While an actual sniper rifle must be capable of MOA accuracy, the M107 usually has 2-3 MOA accuracy, making it a bad option for anti-personnel beyond 600 meters.

Proof? Cause they did.

Look mate, the gun can pen 11mm thick armor at 45° angle. The maus has 220 at like 60° angle.

+Lucas Bowen 75mm cannon will probably not penetrate a maus, I highly doubt a sniper rifle would come anywhere near penetrating a maus.

+Slartibarfart Wot logic XD

Yee

Yeap. Lol

*American

@@aaronwuensch9447 well fixed.

United States sniper rifles*

Well obviously America is the only country that exists to the internet

The Mk 12 is just fine when your in down town Fallujah fighting house to house and you need to pop a bad guy 200-300 yards down the road on a roof top and still light and handy enough to do CQB. At least I didnt have a problem with it. It worked as advertised!

LifeIsShort SoHaveFun Good one! I concur- see my posting! It may even have gone back to he French-Indian War.

Not quite, military sharpshooting with a rifled musket pre dates the revolutionary war by a fair margin. Sad to say the US did NOT invent the art of sniping... however we used it to very good effect during our revolution. The minuteman's weapon of choice the Pennsylvania or Kentucky long rifles which were derivitives of the German Jeager rifle, built of local materials and with design changes that reflected the unique hunting conditions of the american colonies. European skirmishers and scouts had been using rifles to kill from a distance for a while, however the practice was somewhat frowned upon by the generals of the time, as it was more cost effective to kill mass amounts of infantry by lining up and firing volleys... the precision shooting that a rifle was capable of, at the expense of longer load times and increased cleaning didnt fit with this... also it was somewhat taboo to specifically target officers... which is what a percision rifle is best used for. So the techniques of long range battlefield shooting were somewhat limited in European armys, and was mostly employed as a defensive tactic. The minuteman's rifle was not a military weapon... it was tool that was primarily owned to put game on the table, it however was capable of killing a man accurately and easily... 3 times the range that the standard smoothbore military musket could. The first rifle created as a military weapon expressly for long range shooting (sniping) was the british Baker rifle. It is said that the commander of the british sharpshooting unit, (a major if I recall correctly) armed with a baker actually had general Washington in his sights but chose not to take the shot because it was "ungentlemanly" the thing that set the colonists apart from military doctrine of the day was this: irregular milita colonists did not give a rats ass about the rules of chivalrous combat. They would target officers at the outset of most engagements if they could, basically this would ruin the english formations abillity to fight as a unit... which is how their infantry was trained. Unit discipline would be lost, The formation would break ranks... many would get picked off and then the unit would be routed. THAT fact alone is what pissed off the english... not that we were killing their infantry soldiers, but that we were slaughtering officers from over 200 yards out from cover. Other armies didn't do that. It was viewed as barberous and ungentlemanly. But, no we didnt "invent" the discipline of long range combat shooting... however, we adopted it, made it our own - and made great use of it.

Wrong. Sniping (targeting enemy from a hidden position) began before muskets were even invented: Welsh longbowmen laying siege to French castles would hide behind trees/etc & terrorize the inhabitants into not peeking over the walls, because they were so accurate at long distances (compared to any weapon of the day). 5:19 he TOLD you it wasn't USA.

+stinky The video does not ask "sharpshooting with a rifled musket"; re-watch 5:19. Doesn't need to be rifled, nor even a musket, to be the "skill" (quoting what he asked at 5:19) of "sniping" (not sharpshooting...). So you blathered for 10 paragraphs, without relevance since you FAILED to LISTEN to the Q. Oh, how I'd love to be your sargeant and ask you a simple question. :-)

IAmSomewhatAwesome a bit more expensive per shot... but oh boy, very effective!

SOID! THE! M10!

I disagree. The ability to put your sights on a man and kill him makes a sniper.

rushthezeppelin $5 not even close more like $80 for a raufoss round

5.00 will get a 500S&W round. Bought a box of 20.

Learn to spell.

did you mean, the .57 cal, bc the .50 BMG actually is an amazing long range anti personnel round? just wondering

SOID! THE! M10!

+Buzz Killington False, the USN classifies the MK12 Special Purpose Rifle as a sniper system.

and no ammo

Andy Jackson, Battle of New Orleans.

Who said that?

And with a musket that was accurate to about 10 feet, lol

The US has wasted $1.27 Trillion in Afghanistan. Wasted 4,200 Americans and killed over 180,000 non combatants ; women and children and old men. Fuck these oath violating losers. The US military is unable to defeat tribes of illiterate goat herders who have NO Air Force, Navy or heavy guns. Those US fools who support the Unconstitutional invasions , occupations and mass murder are oath violating cowards. The US military are not only oath violating cowards, they are war criminals.

The term sniper was originated by hunters who used to be after the "snipe" birds as they were considered a hard target for hunters around the 1800's By this definition the first snipers were British hunters. As the term was used to describe an "excellent marksman" nothing to do with shooting people. Sniper being used to describe a military role was much later. The Jagers were a hunter or gamekeeper who might have in the past used a crossbow pre gunpowder, the jagers of the Austrians and other Germanic speaking states were usually a light infantry type. During the napoleonic wars. The early air rifles were powerful capable of man killing at well over 100 yrds several designs developed and used during the Napoleonic wars but were rarely if ever used by the armies due to the high cost of manufacture. The first sniper is open to debate depending upon your terms. Must they be an accurate shot , a man killer in a military organisation not a hunter ? Must they used a gunpowder weapon ? If not the David vs goliath might be the first recorded sniper kill.

@@pnonnymouse4840 i know that the name “sniper” came from the English hunters who tried to killed those birds. But in the military, the first snipers-if im not mistaken- i believe they were the Austrian “jägers” who served as light infantry in the napoleonic wars

@@KRYPTIA-mp4ol depends upon what you mean by sniper as stated . The debate upon who , what, how armed , and when the first "sniper" is/was depends upon how you define sniper. Lots of questions can a person be a thing before its defined/named ? What type of weapon does a sniper use ? Must it be a firearm? Must it be a rifled barrel? Using a broad dictionary definition its a military person who shoots from concealment at long range at individual targets, a sniper therefore might well be using a crossbow or other muscle powered weapon. Its an interesting academic debate. My personal opinion its a rifled firearm at long 500yrd trained military person marksmanship so around the 1850's either the crimea or the america civil with a formal definition of sharpshooter added to the ranks. Before this there might have been individuals who were marksmen but no formal military term denoting a body of men trained to shoot individual enemies at long range.

@@pnonnymouse4840 ok.. I define “sniper” as the person who hits a target from a long distance , without being seen...

@@KRYPTIA-mp4olsure then the first sniper was just some pre history dude throwing a spear from a bush. Its just as valid as my own opinion.

right like where is the stuff that we didn't know that we couldn't just search up on our own.

Cocky much

5 Things You Don't Know About: Numbers. 1) 15129 is equal to 123 squared. 2) 13! / 2 = 3113510400 etc...

don't you mean Napierial logarithm

True, then they said the m110 was the only thing built from the ground up over and over, when it's based of the m4 and m16 profiles..

I love my 1968 30-06 Remington 700. To my knowledge all 700 triggers are adjustable if you know how to do it.

My life in one comment

Ew cod... *pukes*

MrTropicHD Mature.

+Crimson_Shadow89 cod is a piece of shit. Get over it.

Bigevilfishy Oh no I wasn't defending it so much as, laughing at the immaturity displayed, but hey, Internet is a security blanket to let you say whatever you want and prevent getting into trouble, huh?.

Wrong, the Enfield was dog shit and wasn't used to great effect, which is why the British army didn't take it up, the Whitworth hit 3 to 1 against the Enfield and the original sniper was born in 1857 with sniper optics being added the same year, hardly a newer used weapon like you describe.

yeah, cos we invented the art..... fukkn americans..

I think I've met you before

I hit a 1080 from 253 feet away and nobody said shit. Then a guy hit a 360 from 50 feet and everyone lost their minds

MOM GET THE CAMERA

Robert Konicki llo

@@r.k.1355 So cool dude. did this nigga just use "feet" to measure his trickshot?? lmao

lol actually it was the german

josue garcia it's was actually Neanderthal's

Loup DeFer all those stupid rifles the British despised shooting their officers. hmm the Americans developed the disapline I do believe.

the americans didn't develop shit. our army existed before your country did

Gregory Anderson

The M21 was developed in the late 60s as an accurized M14. The M25 was developed in the early 90s as basically a product improved M21. What they show in this video is the Mk14 or maybe the M39

The M21 is a Off the rack National Match scoped, The M25 is a barreled action in a different stock system for sniping.

As a former high-power service rifle competitor, that's what I remember as the M21, a scoped National Match M14. They said they were a pretty good medium range sniper rifle back in the day.

m21 m25 both use double lugged recivers and have better quality barrels than the m14

I'm pretty sure they used the M21 in Veitnam

And he only used iron sights.

You are 300% right

Ha, it was from 6 yards.

Joshua James Only for self defense...

WirresZeugs But of course!

WirresZeugs no he is going to use it to snipe you in the shower lol what eles would he do with it

So you are picking up an AR-15, essentially is all it is

Bos742 Yeah, and a Bentley is essentially just a car.

Funny!!! Great for your daughter.

Say that again?

wasn't the tar-21 an AR platformed rifle, I may be wrong though as I am not well versed in em

Adam Ness It is originally an assault rifle yes, with a sniper variant.

+Phantom Apprentice are u talking about the dmr variant? like the star or something like that

yes

+Phantom Apprentice Isnt the tar 21 a bullpup carbine?

I hit shots from 2,000 meters in Dayz.

+Gaming Cat Call of duty doesn't count.

TwazkemUSAbi I didn't say on Call of Duty, I said DayZ. Yes, DayZ is a game.

Hmm could be UK, Prussia or Austria all of them had sharpshooter regiments before napoleonic wars (1803-) started. Napoleon hated them, because he thought their fighting-doctrine is for cowards.

johnathan silverthorne no it's Prussia

Wrong. Germans are the ones who invented rifles barrels.

plasma?

War noob...

Pomlipaf me?haha stop being arrogant if you know nothing about war noob

Pomlipaf plasma don't make any sense

+Zairul Jr it Was NOT to you is Was to xorkatoss so dont be a a hoal

K good

+Jack Wang like it said in the video they were adopted as anti material rifles not sniper rifles.

A rifle is exactly then, and only then, a "sniper rifle" if it is being used for sniping. Weapons specifically designated for long range accuracy are referred to as "precision rifles" or "marksman rifles". In other words, the M107 and M82 are sniper rifles, because snipers use them.

the gun does have rifling does it ? it is very accurate is it not ? also the term sniper rifle is childish , a rifle isnt going to snipe some one , people need to think about what they are saying

Nice data, thanks!