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Re: target rifle vs sniper rifle

Post by eternalme » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:55 pm

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Sniper's rifles

Post by firetrail » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:14 pm



Is there any special procedure to be followed or special licenses to be procured if I want to possess sniper's rifles? I mean, they are ordinary rifles with mounts and scopes, so are there any separate set of rules? If so, what do I need to do to procure such a license?

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Post by penpusher » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:06 pm

Please read an earlier discussion on what constitutes a sniper rifle.In India rifles are classified as per their caliber and not as per the use they can be put to.Licenses are issued accordingly.

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Post by eljefe » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:48 pm

Firetrail, a bit of advice- a sniper rifle, constitutes many things which are not available/banned in India-
bull barrels, free floating, scopes, tailoring and reloading ammo,etc
Unless you are proficient in home gunsmithing, suggest you take up an alternate project, which may be viable, and one where we can help you out with...
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Re: Sniper's rifles

Post by msandhu » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:51 pm

Hi ,
can u explain what bull barrels and free floating barrels are and how they help in better accuracy ?
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Post by mundaire » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:30 pm

This thread was sufficiently similar to the earlier thread "Target Rifles vs. Sniper rifles" - so both have now been merged.

Newcomers will find that most of their questions would be covered by some of the earlier posts on this thread...

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Re: Sniper's rifles

Post by eljefe » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:53 pm

msandhu";p="13910 wrote:Hi ,
can u explain what bull barrels and free floating barrels are and how they help in better accuracy ?
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Hi Mandep,
suggest you start here?
1. http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn38-e.htm
2. http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,1 ... s,,00.html

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Re: target rifle vs sniper rifle

Post by msandhu » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:58 pm

Hi,
Thanks for this information. I did some more search on this and found this informative article also

http://hunting.about.com/cs/guns/a/float_bed.htm

There is other useful information about guns and hunting on this site for the beginners,.


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Re: target rifle vs sniper rifle

Post by Grumpy » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:03 am

"can u explain what bull barrels and free floating barrels are and how they help in better accuracy ? "

A `bull` barrel is a heavy barrel. One that has a large external diameter. The benefits are that a heavy barrel is more rigid and both takes longer to heat up and dissipates heat more quickly because of the greater surface area.
A barrel that is free-floating does not touch the fore-end of the stock at all. The barrel channel is cut wide enough and deep enough that the barrel is untouched. The advantage is obvious - the barrel is not being distorted by being pushed out of true when the fore-end is held or rested on an external surface.

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Re: target rifle vs sniper rifle

Post by OverUnderPump » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:28 pm

Vikram";p="8733 wrote:I have a 1944 vintage German Sniper (Der Deutsche Scharfshutze) training video with English sub-titles. Amaging given the time the video was made.

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Post by snIPer » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:57 am

I too would be interested in looking at that video
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Post by shutzen » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:05 pm

HI! folx chk out the movie "Shooter" released this year based on stephen hunters novel - superb sniping action including one scene where a barret 50 is used against a heli gunship depicted at 3 places .
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Re: target rifle vs sniper rifle

Post by Grumpy » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:12 am

Vikram, I have this novel vision of you sitting in a back room in Coventry knocking off bootleg spiper videos...........................!
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Post by eljefe » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:41 am

et tu Grumps? :) :)
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Re: target rifle vs sniper rifle

Post by Grumpy » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:24 pm

Nah, I leave illegal black-marketeering to others...........I`m too lazy, too old.......and too honest to go in for criminal activity ! :lol:

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