Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ . . . Not a vintage sniper rifle topic, but an interesting article on the 58-year old Ukrainian sniper who likely set a new wartime record Domestic Ukrainian rifle with a US Bartlein barrel and a Japanese March-FX scope, looks like a 4-40x52 Genesis version Ammunition was custom made in Ukraine
JP LRI-20 LRP-07 with longer barrel | Snipers Hide Forum I know the usual barrel length on the LRP-07 factory builds is 20-22" and the max length handguard is 17 25" Has anyone used anything longer, like a 24" barrel? If so could you drop a pic and how was the balance of the rifle with the slightly longer barrel? I want to go a little longer one one
Vortex 2025? | Snipers Hide Forum Did Vortex show anything at SHOT that is new for 2025? If not, when do they usually reveal new scopes? Thanks
TITANIUM barrels?? | Snipers Hide Forum This week I spoke to a friend who was formerly an NSA operator (Yes, they do exist ) He said he had heard from his former operator "community", as he put it, that some U S special forces (no service branch named) folks in Afghanistan were using 338 LM rifles with titanium barrels I allowed
Which finger to place on trigger? | Snipers Hide Forum A few years back my neighbor who was a US military sniper in Viet Nam mentioned that he had preferred to activate the trigger with his long finger but i've not seen anyone else mention this nor had i observed the practice at the various rifle ranges and as such kind of forgot about it today I
Subsonic . 223 loads | Snipers Hide Forum Subsonic, the 223 would be worthless for energy The optimum subsonic defense load with a 10 5" barrel is 300BO in my opinion Subsonic 223 is essentially a 22 rimfire If you don't want to reinvent the wheel and this is your goal get a 22RF upper in 10 5" and shoot 60gr bullets, lead The bullets you list will perform horribly at subsonic velocites