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Thats NOT a sniper rifle....

leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I keep seeing all these posted items, and they have sniper rifle in the title and description. And some of them don't have a single thing to do with sniper rifles. For instance, a guy has a semi auto browning BAR WWII reproduction, no enhancements, NO OPTICS, just a standard old BAR. And he's calling it a sniper rifle. I've also seen non-heavy barreled, same old AK's being called sniper rifles. And I might just be an * person, but its a real pet pieve of mine. I don't want to make an a** of myself, but sometimes I just want to email the posters and tell them that they are falsley describing their items. (Oh yea, I'm going to make one inch groups at 200 yards with that Marlin Camp Carbine Sniper rifle that doesn't even have a scope on it)...

Any comments?

If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Mostly gun nuts on this site, you'd think folks would use their heads for something besides bangin' nails. I wonder if people e-mail these people with jokes and laughter.


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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its not the rifle but the owner that makes it a "sniper" rifle....

    But speaking of substained precision armament what makes a precision
    rifle is barrel,rifling twist,bedding ,padding, optics and desing...

    Atributes only certifiable in the field under the worst conditions possible.(Testing)

    JD

    Good...? , Bad...? Who cares ? as long I am the one with the the gun.....
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good point..

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    But then again were also talking about original intended manufacture. For instance, some guns are made to be sniper rifles straight from the factory (I.E. Reminton PSS). Then other guns were ment for totally different reasons, like a sporting clays shotgun. Sure in the properly skilled hands a sporting clays shotgun could be used to snipe somebody at 50yrds with a slug, but you wouldn't call it a sniper rifle. Its still a sporting clays shotgun. And then again you get some guns that weren't originally intented to be sniper rifles, that were modified by the owner for that purpose.

    My point was that non of the guns I was talking about being posted as sniper rifles were even attempted to be modified for use as a sniper rifle. Not even from a remote practical standpoint.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • Guns & GlassGuns & Glass Member Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Someone on a post had asked about the performance difference between a sharpshooter and a sniper

    A sniper has "better than" a sharpshooter shooting capability, BUT,.. .AND,...while looking a target in the eyes, still take 'em out.

    Happy Bullet Holes!
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    I tricked out a para SKS, folder/bipod/red dot/flash, and my Daughter sees it and say's "I want to shoot your sniper rifle". I said it just looks cool, if you want to shoot precision, try my 22-250.
    We saw one of the real life Law enforcement shows, where this sniper shoots a revolver out of a perps hand. My Daughter wants to do that, but she does not want to have to deal with the possibility of shooting a person for a living. I don't even think I could do do that for a living.

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Sniper" and "assault" rifles usually are not. Just as many lots of the "OLD, RARE!!!!!" collectible (dubious in these cases) ammo listed here were produced in the 1950s and is as common as dirt. Some people have no clue, others are graduates of the P.T. Barnum School of Marketing with advanced degrees from the Clinton-Jackson School of Ethics.



    Edited by - Iconoclast on 07/14/2002 08:54:11
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    eBay started out as a collectibles/flea market type of operation, and quickly a large percentage of the space was highjacked by direct marketing operations.

    We have something over here that they often don't have over there -- expertise. Hype and high prices are more likely to fall flat here (just like they usually draw ridicule at gun shows) than on eBay, where they get lots of "dumb traffic."

    If GB auctioneers want to sell more stuff, they need to a) be as accurate as any appraiser of antiques, and b) make the auctions interesting by opening at lower starting prices. I keep saying that nothing is less interesting to me than an auction that opens where it should close. Lee's point goes to another similar turn-off -- sellers who either don't know what they're selling (so how could they price it accurately?) or just as bad, sellers who are willing to hype you -- and whom you therefore can't trust. And excuse me for asking this, but what the h*** are retailers doing on an auction site???? How do you bid UP from retail???? Earth to seller, earth to seller...

    eBay may be able to support the dumbed-down direct marketers with the e-bot mailing systems, but over here accuracy, complete disclosure, expert sellers, interesting collectibles, and low opening auction bids are going to be the keys to success, I think.

    - Life NRA Member
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