for you military rifle buffs. Russia's new sniper rifle
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 16:34 (2908 days ago)
308 caliber
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Read about it today on line.
BlackPete
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 16:51 (2908 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
No interest to me. It should have back fired?
Pete
Is that a variant of the MTs-116M in 12.7mm?
Larry Fry
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 17:04 (2908 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
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Nope article says it is a SVCh-308
Larry Fry
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 17:52 (2908 days ago) @ Larry Fry
Kalashnikov designed rifle. No caliber claimed but it is supposed to drop only 13 mm per hundred meters. That puts it in the 338 Lapua and 12.7 mm caliber range. 12.7 holds 350 grains powder but bullet selection is somewhat limited. I wonder if they special make the bullets like the bullets for the .408 CheyTac?
they say it is a variant of the Kalashnikov in 308
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 17:52 (2908 days ago) @ Larry Fry
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And Putin got THREE kill shots at
Larry Fry
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 20:11 (2908 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
1936 feet with a cold barrel heated by previous two shots....I call bullshit on that especially with a .308. At the range claimed the drop on a 168 grain Match Cartridge is over 15 feet. If the gun had been a 12.7 mm .50 cal equivalent then maybe.
I am sure they had it already sighted in for him
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 20:13 (2908 days ago) @ Larry Fry
all he had to do was pull the trigger.Also they didn't say it was chambered in 308 Winchester. It could have been any of several 308 caliber cartridges.
also that 1936 feet is less than 650 yards, not that
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, September 20, 2018, 20:15 (2908 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
hard a shot if the gun was sighted in. I doubt very seriously they wanted their leader to get up there and make a fool of himself.
It would be sighted in and checked and rechecked
Jim Taylor
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Friday, September 21, 2018, 05:56 (2908 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
unless one wanted a permanent trip to Siberia.
Or a dose of polonium in your coffee.
Stuart in GA
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Friday, September 21, 2018, 06:46 (2908 days ago) @ Jim Taylor
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yeah that rifle has been shot and used a lot. The scope
Gary Reeder
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Friday, September 21, 2018, 10:35 (2907 days ago) @ Jim Taylor
is dinged up and the rear lens cover is broken. I do wonder about the gun and all accessories being white. Is there something that we don't know, with their main sniper rifle being snow camo?
Here's a good article about it
ORG
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Friday, September 21, 2018, 06:32 (2908 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
Here's a link to the one . . .
ORG
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Friday, September 21, 2018, 11:08 (2907 days ago) @ ORG
. . .Gary posted about . . .
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-shows-off-sniper-skills-firing-kalashnikov-rifle-19470...
The one I posted is of their new T-5000 bolt-action super rifle.