New Sniper Rifle

[280PLUS]

Right, I can see the bolt action still having it's place but I can also see a place for this new one too.

Anybody who wears a uniform is putting their ass on the line regardless of their job. Even them sailors out there having their barbeques on the fantail.

 

[ALS]

Still, it seems to me that the .308 is a somewhat mediocre cartridge for a sniper rifle.

There some better cartridges but on the the battlefield how many different calibers do you want to have to supply to your forces?

As far as the .308 goes it is good sniping round for shots under 800 meters.
Have there been kills past 800 meters with a .308? Sure have lots of them.
Being that I have shot my .308's and .300 Win Mag out past 1000 yards on Blackwater's 1200 yard rang in Moyock NC. I can say under most conditions a .308 will do the job out to 1000 yards with the right man or woman behind the gun. The biggest factor is the shooter and second the gun must be built to be 1000 yard sniper rifle. Any kill shot out past 800 or so meters is 75% luck and 25% skill. That quote came from people who do this for a living. There are just so many factors that have to be factored in to the shot even before the trigger is squeezed. Wind, altitude, temperature, elevation up or down and even lighting conditions are large factors on whether the bullet will hit the mark. I have shot with lots of people who could put up nice groups out to 400 to 500 yards. As soon as we went 600-700-800-900-1000 their groups totally fell apart.
The Knights suppressed .308 would be a wonderful urban 500 or less yard sniper rifle.

 

[GunTech]

Agree that 1000 yard 308 is a tricky proposition, particularly if you are using M118LR special ball. I've switched to using 155gn Lapua Scenars for 1K 308.

 

[ALS]

That's why I use 175 gn SMK's with a muzzle velocity of 2650. They will stay supersonic out past 1000 yards.

 

[romma]

Looks Sweet to me!

 

[Rifleman 173]

Use of a decent .308/7.62 NATO bullet is a good idea. It looks like the Army is trying to come up with a practical sniper rifle that is easy to maintain and will fit into the present system using existing ammo. Not a bad idea when you consider that most snipers seldom get to shoot beyond a couple of hundred yards any way. I may have to get me an AR-10 to run some tests of my own. So we'll have 5.56 or 6.8 SPC riflemen good out to about 400 yards with a decent AR-10 type rifles good out to about 800 yards for sniping. Not a bad idea. So if an American infantry squad has a number of designated marksmen and a sniper or two, they'll OWN the battlefield to the point that the enemy will be afraid to even raise their heads to peak out and look. I like it. Fear is a great motivator.