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Simo's kills were up to 400m so fairly short distances. He got over 700 total kills in less than 100 days so that does tell quite a bit of the type of battles that were going on at that front. His war ended in 1940 as he got hit in the jaw with an explosive bullet. You have to keep in mind...

That would be a Finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä. He didn't use optics simply because it allowed him to keep his head lower. Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia His kills were fairly short distance as most sniper kills are. High quality optics will allow you to hunt at poor...

Much easier to calculate.

Absolutely. When you're bear hunting you need a scope where the magnification starts at 6x minimum. :D Just kidding of course. I heard a comment about my 1.1-4x24 Victory that it was not suitable for the task since it wasn't a true 1x.

If you are on a budget then you need to spend as little as possible on a basic quality rifle. Something like Savage or Tikka, even used, and then use whatever is left on a scope. Spotting scope I would skip at least until you get a decent set of binoculars. Meopta MeoStar 3-10x50 perhaps...

Many scopes are able to do that but that's only small portion of the equation. With the lower quality lenses you will lose the ability to see far and that only gets worse when the conditions are not ideal.

Not sure how AO relates to them but Elite's are the old Bausch & Lomb scopes. Very good scopes for the money!

I wish I had the tools to do metal work, would be fun. I wish I had even the necessary tools to do proper wood work. For now I am stuck with a basic viles, saw and some air tools to manage by. I prefer wood stocks so I am experimenting on making my own laminates. Getting the basic shape is a lot...

Minox ZA5 3-15x42 is <15oz and has 60 minutes of travel. 4-20x50 is 19oz and 80 MOA travel. Even the 6-30x56 is less than 25oz.

Is that a digital NV? Pulsar???

.243 ftw.

Fast, lighter bullet will deflect easier than slow, heavy bullet. This is a reason why .338 and larger are popular moose calibers in Finland where a lot of the hunting is in thick brush. If brushes are a concern, something like 9.3x62 will most likely work much better than .270.

Nothing too fancy so maybe a short barrel AR in .30 cal or an AK.

One of the exceptions worth to mention are Rk62's. The only ones that I had that weren't fairly accurate were the ones with broken sights. Of course, in full automatic mode not that accurate... :) Rk 62 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dude, it's only pseudo-beer.