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New Army sniping rifle
It's a variant of the SR-25 semiauto. 7.62 NATO, and quite accurate (.65 MOA average, I assume firing standard match ammo). Capable of carrying a suppressor, which has proven useful in the past.
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Much as I like my M1A, the component based AR-10/SAR-25 platform is easier to maintain long term. Wish I could afford one.
Speaking of cost, did I read somewhere that the US Gov't is paying KAC $15,000 for these rifles? That's a lot of clams, baby.
Regarding cost again, I had forgotten that during the Civil War the best sniper's rifle was considered to be the British Whitworth. Those rifles cost $500 per example. So, I guess you get what you pay for sometimes.
"the XM110 operates by direct gas instead of using a gas piston system. "
Haven't we learned *anything* about how bad a direct gas impingment system is from the M4's performance?
Haven't we learned *anything* about how bad a direct gas impingment system is from the M4's performance?
On the contrary, the extra gas volume of the 7.62 NATO gives the Stoner design added oomph to work the bolt and blow crud out of the action.
Also this new rifle will have a much lower rate of fire and presumably more attentive maintenance than the usual issued M4.
I have a (mostly) National Match M14, and if I can shoot 1" groups (100-yard BR) with it even before I put any glass on it, I dare say John C. Garrand's gun would have been good enough, and there were probably enough basic rifles already in the field, so remaking them into sniper weapons at the depot would have been easier AND cheaper, but the Army is now firmly populated by the twanger-rifle folks, so out troops get what they get, but could have got better.