Sniper rifle - is my collection incomplete without one?

[losangeles]

If it's a bolt-action sniper rifle you're looking for, and you're in a bit of a budget, I'm with the other folks who recommend a Russian Mosin Nagant 91/30. You can get a very good condition for around $120. Sporterize it with a good scope and you can have a sniper for $200 complete. You don't need to go with the classic PE/PU scopes to keep the colletibility.

And it really, really is a sniper. It's a classic. It was used that way in its time. If you watched Enemy at the Gates (WWII story when Nazis invaded Stalingrad & Russies made a last stand), the hero of that movie was the Mosin 91/30.

 

[Limeyfellow]

If it's military, the Russian Moisin Nagant M91/30 w/PU scope is a bargain. They go for around $700.

Interordianance has them for $450. Even ones with PE scopes are less than $700.

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

If it's a bolt-action sniper rifle you're looking for, and you're in a bit of a budget, I'm with the other folks who recommend a Russian Mosin Nagant 91/30. You can get a very good condition for around $120. Sporterize it with a good scope and you can have a sniper for $200 complete. You don't need to go with the classic PE/PU scopes to keep the colletibility.

And it really, really is a sniper. It's a classic. It was used that way in its time. If you watched Enemy at the Gates (WWII story when Nazis invaded Stalingrad & Russies made a last stand), the hero of that movie was the Mosin 91/30.

That was a great movie. One of my favorite gun movies. Used to have the DVD, but it got up and walked out of my house by itself, somehow. At any rate, it is no longer on my DVD shelf. Funny how things like that can sprout legs, isn't it?

 

[ALS]

My first was one of these in 300 Win Mag Blaser

Then I bought two IBA Chandler Sniper Rifles in .308
IBA

One with an A3 Stock and the other with an A5 stock.
Both have 26" SS Hart barrels and Leupold 4.5-14 X 50 Mildot for the A3 and a Leupold 4.5-14 X 50 Premier 2nd Generation Mildot for the A5.

I never thought how addicting an extremely accurate bolt action can be.:banghead:

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

Yes

 

[RiverwinoIA]

cool pics...

i want to purchase my own "long range bolt gun".

Dont Tread on Me:
A highly precise bolt gun would be more useful for a lone partisan on the "occupied" shtf battlefield. You take one shot, from a different place, every time. If they find you and you start a gunfight, they have limitless back up given enough time. Its all about getting one good shot in, then quickly fading back into the sheep.
If you ever need to go semi auto with your battlerifle, i would think its only a matter of time til yer flanked/bombed/strafed by the occupying forces.

In a "mad max" end of the world scenario, i see the value in more firepower.