Originally Posted By: pooch
I looked it up. The Mcmillan TAC 50 is made in Arizona is the standard sniper rifle used by the Canadian Army. It's a bolt action rifle and shooting that big 50cal round. It must kick like a mule. Furlong's record was beaten by a Britisher shooting 338 Lapua round. I believe the 338 Lapua was developed by one of the Scandinavian countries. I've been hearing great things about the 338 Lapua in that it has a modest recoil for its power and distance. It is supposedly the round adopted by the Air Force snipers. I have a low regard for Air Force snipers. But it was the Air Force who first started buying the AR 15. They might be on to something now


The latest long distance kill that has been reported was the Britisher who killed a counter sniper at 1.5 miles in Mosul, Iraq last month. He was using another American made rifle. It is the newest bad boy on the block, and is made near here in Charleston, SC ....... the CheyTac (Cheyenne Tactical) Intervention, chambered for their proprietary .408 round. It is based on the old .505 Gibbs case. I'm not sure if it set a new long distance record, or not.

SRH

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