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Help the Marine Corps decide on a new caliber for their sniper rifles
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<blockquote data-quote="arrow" data-source="post: 922532" data-attributes="member: 9798"><p>I think the big thing being overlooke here is the barrel life. Most marine snipers in training and even school trained snipers are not avid long range shooters. They think of it as a job and they don't look into it much beyond that. THAT being said a lot of range time is needed to make them proficient at longrange shooting. There is a lot of other skills needed to be practiced an range availability forces you to shoot all you can when you can. Usually there are 8 bolt guns in a sta platoon for 24 guys to get familiar with. So think about how many rounds would be put down those barrels at a given time. Also cleaning is one f those things that gets down at the end of the day or end of mission. Also long strings of fire. So take a cartridge that will last 1500 rounds usually and shoot like the marine corps shoots their bolt guns and you should have well under 1000 rounds of barrel life. Which is less than a years time. I completely agree something needs to be done about caliber. It is a real pain to hit what you want in a good wind at 1000 yards with a 308 compared to something else. but I don't think sone of these ultra mags or over bore cartridges would be logistically feesible. Even some of these countries that use the lapua also shoot 308 such as the Brits. Maybe keep the 308 mostly for training purposes but also incorporate a better longer range cartridge. Just putting in my .02 based off my experiences. Take it or leave it. </p><p></p><p>Arrow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arrow, post: 922532, member: 9798"] I think the big thing being overlooke here is the barrel life. Most marine snipers in training and even school trained snipers are not avid long range shooters. They think of it as a job and they don't look into it much beyond that. THAT being said a lot of range time is needed to make them proficient at longrange shooting. There is a lot of other skills needed to be practiced an range availability forces you to shoot all you can when you can. Usually there are 8 bolt guns in a sta platoon for 24 guys to get familiar with. So think about how many rounds would be put down those barrels at a given time. Also cleaning is one f those things that gets down at the end of the day or end of mission. Also long strings of fire. So take a cartridge that will last 1500 rounds usually and shoot like the marine corps shoots their bolt guns and you should have well under 1000 rounds of barrel life. Which is less than a years time. I completely agree something needs to be done about caliber. It is a real pain to hit what you want in a good wind at 1000 yards with a 308 compared to something else. but I don't think sone of these ultra mags or over bore cartridges would be logistically feesible. Even some of these countries that use the lapua also shoot 308 such as the Brits. Maybe keep the 308 mostly for training purposes but also incorporate a better longer range cartridge. Just putting in my .02 based off my experiences. Take it or leave it. Arrow. [/QUOTE]
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