U.S. soldiers to get new sniper rifles
They go on to state that the Remington M24 doesn't have the range. Something tells me that the World's Most Dangerous Librarian would beg to differ... Of course, as gun folk know, it's not the rifle but the round that makes the differince in the "reach out and touch" someone - the new rifle is chambered in .300 Winchester Magnum, a significant upgrade in power from the (not-inconsequential) .308 Winchester of the M24.WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is shipping new rifles to Afghanistan that will enable snipers to hit a target nearly 4,000 feet away, officials said.
The XM2010 rifle can hit targets a quarter-mile farther away than the weapon currently in use, USA Today reported.
Plus the XM2010 just looks more tactical:
Here's the funny thing - only the can is verboten in MA...
That is all.
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Meh. I figure if I am mad at someone and they get more than 2500 feet away from me then maybe they deserve to get away. I'll stick to .308.
I'd be happy to take one of those M24s off their hands since they won't be needing them anymore...
Another odd piece of ammo hitting the battlefield. Let's see, Supply now has the option to send you 9mm, .45 (for the SpecOps people), 5.56 Nato, 7.62 Nato, .300 Winchester Magnum, 12 Gauge and .50 Cal Browning, plus all the variants such as AP, Tracer, plain old ball, etc. I hope that those poor bastards stuck in some FOB way up in the Hindu Kush get 7.62 Nato for their M 240 and not 300 Win Mag when the supply chopper comes in. Happened to my first command back in the 70's. Good thing were weren't going to war, but we did go to sea with about 500 rounds of 7.62 left in inventory for 6 M-14s for a couple of months before Supply rectified the situation.
I can hear Caleb squeeing about rails, rails everywhere!
Modern journalism is just sad. The whole story about this new gun and they have a pic of a Barrett fifty. Then the story doesn't even mention the caliber. Sure, I know that a only a small subset of the readers would care, but FACTS are FACTS.
For that kind of money you think somebody could have found something to set it on besides a Harris bi-pod...
Bubblehead,
Sorting out the oddball ammo for the designated snipers (not the Designated marksmen) is no more difficult than remembering that A/2/27/25 ID (LIGHT) doesn't need any 120mm Rheinmetal rounds.
Its not like those guys will be burning through so much .300 Winchester Magnum that they're likely to ned an emergency LOGPAK from Division in the midst of a firefight.
The M24 was a nice idea, but outdated before it was fielded. (A nice replacement for the M21s, however, according to my buddies who were snipers during the transition; the M21 is a nice rifle, but has its drawbacks as a sniper rifle. (Not surprising -- it was an in-house stopgap at a time when the rifles the Army was using for sniping were mostly M1903A4 Springfields and M1C Garands.)
For the billet-designated, school qualified guys functioning as true snipers, having a bolt gun that delivers accurate point fire well beyond GPMG area range makes more sense than one that has the sniper firing a bolt gun from within GPMG range. (If they have to work inside GPMG range, that's when a 7.62x51mm rifle pays off. . . if it's semiauto so he can take rapid followup shots. . . )
WV: "amanicap" -- The reason I can only see the eight colors in a basic Crayola box is I am aMANicapped. ("Salmon is a fish, not a color. THAT paint is 'pink'!")
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