Posted on 05/01/2018 7:00:17 AM PDT by C19fan
Amidst a slew of new equipment coming down the pipeline for U.S. Marines is a new designated marksman rifle. The M38 scoped rifle is designed to give Marine infantry squads the ability to hit individual targets at ranges of up to 600 meters with greater precision than Marines equipped with ordinary M4 carbines. According to Marine Corps Times the rifle will be fully issued by September 2018.
After 9/11, the U.S. Army and Marines saw a need for a rifle that could reach out and hit targets at a greater distance than the typical M4 carbine or M16A2/A4 rifle could manage. Typically, such a rifle would be equipped with a long range telescopic sight bipod, and ideally have some work done by military armorers to increase accuracy. The U.S. Marines created a designated marksman position to carry the rifle and used a variety of designated marksman rifles (DMRs) including the M39 Enhanced Marksman Rifle and the Mark 12 Special Purpose Rifle.
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300 Blackout for instance (yes, yes, more logistics. OK, .308 then)
Dilly Dilly.
Seems like kind of a lot of jibber jabber to say they are going to put a scope on an M27 but OK.
" the Marines are finally switching to a .300 Winchester Magnum platform. The Mark 13 Mod 7 rifle, originally used by Navy SEALs, is a Remington 700 long action in a lightweight, skeletonized chassis"
It takes a special breed of managers to succeed in bankrupting a arms and ammunition company (with government contracts) in today's market.
Only a few MBA’s.
Take on a ton of debt, get a big bonus, and bail.
Gorgeous, but it won’t do much without a mag.
The M14 will do that.
We had no problem at all hitting man size targets from 500 meters in the prone position using our M14 rifles equipped with iron sights back in 1972.
Sen. McCarthy wants to know if it has a “shoulder thing that goes up”...
The M14 will do that.
your right, my M14A1A National Match will all day...
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