“Sniper Rifle” is one term I HATE. Not specifically to snipers and the rifles they use, but to rifles not being used by snipers.
You may have had this question asked of you: “Oh you own guns? Do you own a Sniper Rifle?”
Well I personally like rifles with iron sights, so generally the answer is an easy “No”, I do have a few rifles with glass on them in the armory…but they are “Hunting Rifles”. Are they hunting rifles because I hunt with them? Nope, but the previous owners of these rifles used them to hunt, and these guns in particular were designed by the factory for hunting
Still let’s say you have a .308 Rem 700 with a bull barrel and some good glass on top. Do you have a Sniper Rifle? Probably not. Now what if you have a scoped M91/30? maybe not, because some of them were modified after the infantry rifles came into the surplus market. Still if it WAS indeed issued to a sniper in the war, yeah it’s a sniper rifle.
Other than that, unless you are a sniper WITH a rifle, it is not a “Sniper Rifle”
More here.
I’m starting to really like a phrase I came up with a while back “No but don’t wish it into existence by continuing to push for gun control”.
Any rifle can be used as a sniper rifle. I’ve shot nothing but steel and paper with mine; don’t push so hard that you make something come true.
Ooh, I like that too!
The only difference between a sniper rifle, a target rifle, and a hunting rifle is what you’re hunting.
I usually come back with “Do you have a seal club?”
Most people have a softball (or baseball) bat somewhere in their house. After all, they are just as likely to run out and start bashing baby seals in the head as I am to climb a bell tower and start sniping.
Usually they don’t get it.
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The sniper is in the man not the rifle.