[longrange1947]

Zone One - You are confusing the Barrett name for their bull pup wihtt he army nomenclature for the newest POS built by Barret and bought by the army.

We also describe the .50 as an "anti-material weapon system" and not a sniper rifle. Besides ancedotal stories of long range kills, in which most fess up that it was luck and not planned, the .50 will not do any of the crap put out in the movies, nor stories by Waxman and his scare tactics.

I personnally would have prefered that the money wasted on the Barretts had been put into a good system AND training money for the shooters. However, it is sexier to buy these things then to actually equip the soldiers with what they really need. Unfortunately, there is now a clammer to get more because of over inflated claims of kills at over 2000 meters and all think they should be able to do the same thing. Unfornately it is not in the cards as most can't ID a target at that range, only a group of people. Next, just what is the wind doing at that range? Not even the McMillian can overcome those problems at those ranges. Sniping much past 1500 to 1800 meters is luck at best when shooting at an indivdual and hitting the target in a stratigic location is required to put the item out of business. The goal has been to take down a piece of material not shoot one guy. The next problem is that the location to take down a piece of equipment is, alot of the time, as small or smaller then a human torso. That again brings your effective range to a much closer range then advertised. As far as a counter wniper rifle, I will take a .338 before a 50 as it is more accurate and if I am going to piss off another sniper I want him dead pissed off not shooting back at my giant dirt ball that I just kicked up when I missed him due to the panning accuracy of 2 to 4 moa.

Think about it.