Originally posted by LRSDRANGER: The rifle he used on the beef stew can and was later set up with is a .405, a USMC Scout Sniper Team made hits with this rifle at over 2200!!! Absolutely amazed...
You talkin' about this rnd?? Doesn't seem like it'll go anything past 300 yds!!?? I'd say a .450 would go farther??
I am not familiar with and can't remember the military designation of the rifle but the Army Sniper we met yesterday at an Air Show in Portsmouth, NH said it was basically a .308 in the civilian world.
He was wearing a Ghillie Suit and had a rifle there for the kids to take a look through. My 13 yr old son enjoyed taking a look. They also had M-16's with grenade launchers, M-249's etc for all to take turns holding.
It fried me seeing everyone pointing at the Soldiers while holding them even though they were empty. I made sure my son pointed them away when he held them.
10288719: no there aren't. We call them something else. Semantics is a game we all love to play! But what would I know, I went from "tactical" to "practical"! Nice private profile by the way...
I’m still chugging along, life is soooo good retired. ElWepo… that a carry over from Haiti? As in ElGuapo. You best look me up if you get around Tampa, FL,. I gotta show you my “retirement community”
The rifle the army and Air Force use is the M24 Sniper rifle the mililitary version on the Remington 700 We use them In the Air Force Security Forces CPEC teams thier basically a counter sniper
There are Snipers in the CG. But they are only in Hitron. Who do you think shoots ot the engines flying around. They might not be called snipers, but they do the exact same thing.
Originally posted by G_DoggUSCG230: There are Snipers in the CG. But they are only in Hitron. Who do you think shoots ot the engines flying around. They might not be called snipers, but they do the exact same thing.
Not even close to the same thing! That's like calling a skeet shooter a sniper because he shoots at things flying around. Someday soon you'll have some folks with the right leadership, mission set, training and gear. It's all a matter of time and need.
Skeet shooter is a close analogy, or maybe a bungee shooter, been out for a while. The first runs were with the .50 suspended by bungee cords. So you figure an armed clay pigeon buzzing around attempting to shoot a target – there’s your parallel. The only application the CG may have for a sniper is in the counter-sniper roll and that could be defined as an M2HB with 100rds linked, or 25mm. In Haiti we experimented with possible ghillie suits by taping, sewing, interweaving various trash found laying around. Actually it was one very bored CWO, blended in quite well. A law enforcement agency operating from a stable platform will have a legitimate argument for a sniper, or an expert rated rifle marksman clinging to the bow of a patrol boat can be that armed clay pigeon.
