Chuhhuniban
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Proving once more that I have way too much time on my hands, I got to thinking last night about action/spy movies I had seen and the weapons in them. I can't name the movies right off-hand (and am way too lazy to try and look them up), but it seems to me that I have seen many, many movies over the past few years where some guy (good or bad) climbs up on top of a building, looks over the edge to the ground below where the bad (or good) guy is going to be and then takes out a case, opens it up, and assembles a take-down sniper rifle — locks the barrel group into the receiver-stock group and then snaps a scope on to the top of the thing. Then, after suitable theatrics, makes some kind of amazing shot with it. No sighting in, no zeroing, no nothin', just slop it together and go bang. Cold, clean barrel every time.
Now, way back in the day, when I was in the Green Machine, I hung out with some pretty good shooters — Post marksmanship team guys and I even messed around with three-position service rifle shooting a little myself (so long ago that the ranges were measured in "yards"). Some of the guys I knew were real live snipers, combat proven. A few were AMTU trained. I know they didn't take their rifles apart between shots and when they did do more than drop the bolt out of the back to clean them, they spent a fair amount of time afterward making sure their rifles actually shot where they were pointed.
My question is, therefore, are there really take-down rifles that you can haul around in an attache case, put together at the last minute, and then make a head shot at 500 meters without re-zeroing the scope and rifle? Or is this just another triumph of entertainment over reality?
Now, way back in the day, when I was in the Green Machine, I hung out with some pretty good shooters — Post marksmanship team guys and I even messed around with three-position service rifle shooting a little myself (so long ago that the ranges were measured in "yards"). Some of the guys I knew were real live snipers, combat proven. A few were AMTU trained. I know they didn't take their rifles apart between shots and when they did do more than drop the bolt out of the back to clean them, they spent a fair amount of time afterward making sure their rifles actually shot where they were pointed.
My question is, therefore, are there really take-down rifles that you can haul around in an attache case, put together at the last minute, and then make a head shot at 500 meters without re-zeroing the scope and rifle? Or is this just another triumph of entertainment over reality?