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am i thinking too much of the .308
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<blockquote data-quote="Bravo 4" data-source="post: 292975" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>The 7.62 is not highly thought of by military snipers(none that I know of) as a long range round. It is a very accurate(capable) midrange sniper round. It isn't the only round the M24's are chambered for. The M24 is a long action and can be chambered for the .300winmag. The Army is paying (can you believe) $4000 to convert some to meet the needs of current engagements in the Middle East. The max effective range of a 7.62 M24 is approx 800meters shooter/ammo dependant. But that beats the M107's max effective range of 600meters on "soft" targets (because it is horribly inaccurate). The reason we have 7.62 and .50 cal sniper rifles is the availability of ammo on the battle field. If you run out of 7.62 M118LR you can use M80 ball ammo and most of the time we use the same the same .50 cal API rounds thethe M2's use. </p><p> </p><p>What we need is to field another sniper rifle.</p><p>Oh wait, we are...and it's a 7.62!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravo 4, post: 292975, member: 8873"] The 7.62 is not highly thought of by military snipers(none that I know of) as a long range round. It is a very accurate(capable) midrange sniper round. It isn't the only round the M24's are chambered for. The M24 is a long action and can be chambered for the .300winmag. The Army is paying (can you believe) $4000 to convert some to meet the needs of current engagements in the Middle East. The max effective range of a 7.62 M24 is approx 800meters shooter/ammo dependant. But that beats the M107's max effective range of 600meters on "soft" targets (because it is horribly inaccurate). The reason we have 7.62 and .50 cal sniper rifles is the availability of ammo on the battle field. If you run out of 7.62 M118LR you can use M80 ball ammo and most of the time we use the same the same .50 cal API rounds thethe M2's use. What we need is to field another sniper rifle. Oh wait, we are...and it's a 7.62! [/QUOTE]
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