• sorrybookbroke
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    10 hours ago

    Wait, I know I’m late to the party, but is that a bullpup sniper rifle?

    Why.

    I can’t see how a sniper rifle benefits from any of the positives of a bull-pup save for maybe the shorter profile being easier to store. Something a folding stalk would do just as well.

    Why?

    Not at all familiar with the gun. Please tell me it’s a regular rifle intented for a designated marksmen and not a real sniper rifle. I see the optic which pushes me in that direction

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      I mean, the shorter profile with the full barrel gives you the mostest boolet speed in a compact package, best used for urban combat where there’s a lot of walls and cover interfering with a full-size rifle.

      There are bullpup snipers, tho - DesertTech makes a couple and Barrett has the model 99 (more an anti-materiel rifle).

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      8 hours ago

      The SA80 is one of the early examples of the push to give everyone an optic.

      While the SA80 is a service rifle, there is a prominent bull pup sniper. In the early 80s, Walther made the WA2000. It was intended for urban counterterror operations, so it focused on portability and quick setup.

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        4 hours ago

        they only made 176 WA2000s and no military wanted them

        e:no shade btw, that gun is super interesting

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        9 hours ago

        No, the SA80. I’m very familiar with the beautiful L96A1.

        Looks like I was wrong though and the SA80 is supposed to be a service rifle. Look man, I’m tired, allow me some stupidity