[Perdogg]

awgeez

[bitterohiogunclinger]

$8000 for a sniper rifle? Hell, I could take any off the shelf Remington 700 tactical and put a Leupold on in and be out the door for 2 grand and shoot the wings off a bumblebee at 500 yards.

[Molon Labbie]

There is a distinct lack of enemy combatants who are coming forward and saying that the 5.56 does not hurt.

As far as being able to hit a target at 500 meters, with open sites, a human sized target at five hundred meters is going to be roughly half the size of the front site post and that is standing still with full frontal profile.

Those targets rarely present themselves to shooters outside a range.

It might be worthwhile to explore issuing more optics and match grade bullets rather than trashing an entire platform that has been in the US arsenal for 50 years now.