sniper rifle for hunting?
04-18-2005, 07:04 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Maine
Posts: 1,327
RE: sniper rifle for hunting?
depends..Just what makes a rifle a "sniper rifle" ? Have an all black shotgun, so does that make it a "tactical shotgun" or a "sniper shotgun" ? Too many darn cliquey tersm now-a-days.
04-18-2005, 11:36 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Alabama
Posts: 369
RE: sniper rifle for hunting?
I had a Rem 700P .308 w/ Badger rings & base, Leupold Vari-X III L1 tactical 4.5-14X5mm w/ 30 mm tube. Harris bipod...........and the whole 9 yds. Was just too damn heavy for anything besides setting up on Varmits.
04-19-2005, 12:26 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Body in SE WI, mind in U.P.
Posts: 4,781
RE: sniper rifle for hunting?
Depends on how you define a sniper rifle.
Civil war snipers more often than not, used iron sights, though a few crude telescopic sights were available.
The Boers tore the Brittish to pieces sniping them out to 700 meters using iron sighted mauser 96s in 7x57.
WWII snipers ran the gamut from .22 LR rifles with iron sights, to a wide vartiety mosin nagant models with irons or optics, to more advanced systems based on Enfield, mauser, Springfield, and garand rifles. There were even sniper rifles based on oddball semiautomatics including the sks, gewehr 41 and 43 and svt 40, not to mention dragonov rifles still used today.
Vietnam era snipers still largely used 1903 springfield sniper rifles.
A modern typical hunting rig using a remington, savage, weatherby, winchester, or browning rifle with decent quality glass is going to be more accurate than 99% of military sniper rifles used in the past.
Civil war snipers more often than not, used iron sights, though a few crude telescopic sights were available.
The Boers tore the Brittish to pieces sniping them out to 700 meters using iron sighted mauser 96s in 7x57.
WWII snipers ran the gamut from .22 LR rifles with iron sights, to a wide vartiety mosin nagant models with irons or optics, to more advanced systems based on Enfield, mauser, Springfield, and garand rifles. There were even sniper rifles based on oddball semiautomatics including the sks, gewehr 41 and 43 and svt 40, not to mention dragonov rifles still used today.
Vietnam era snipers still largely used 1903 springfield sniper rifles.
A modern typical hunting rig using a remington, savage, weatherby, winchester, or browning rifle with decent quality glass is going to be more accurate than 99% of military sniper rifles used in the past.
04-19-2005, 05:34 AM
#10
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: sniper rifle for hunting?
World I 1903Springfield A4
World War II M1D Garand Sniper
Korea Mod 70Win
Viet Nam Mod 700Rem M40 & M40A1 USMC
They had 8 weeks at rifle range and 8 weeks of survival training
in the jungles of Panama.
They had to be Sharp Shooters at 1000yds to graduate
and graduate from Survival Training.
The best Sniper the US Army had was Sgt. Gillie
That's the way it use to be.
World War II M1D Garand Sniper
Korea Mod 70Win
Viet Nam Mod 700Rem M40 & M40A1 USMC
They had 8 weeks at rifle range and 8 weeks of survival training
in the jungles of Panama.
They had to be Sharp Shooters at 1000yds to graduate
and graduate from Survival Training.
The best Sniper the US Army had was Sgt. Gillie
That's the way it use to be.
