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- From: rob@spot.Colorado.EDU (Rob Cuthbertson)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Anti-terrorist rifle...?
- Message-ID: <199211181752.AA04128@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:12:10 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- H.S. Doyle (n0an7@turing.newcastle.ac.uk) writes:
- #
- # [ ... ]
- #The bullpup one you're talking about has to be the Walther WA-2000 sniper
- #rifle. It fires something like a 10.6 gram slug at 980mps and is the most
- #advanced sniper rifle around. Not sure of the weight off the top of my head
- #but I think it was under 15 pounds. The Walther design team picked .308 cal
- #because it was the most powerful load widely available in that calibre
- #range, and apparently the rifle is *extremely* accurate, and has a muzzle
- #brake that eliminates 50% of the recoil with no reduction in accuracy. Nice
- #gun if you've got the cash!
- #
-
- For those of us who still use archaic measures, that's a 68 or 69 grain slug
- at 3215 fps.
-
- --Rob Cuthbertson, rob@spot.Colorado.EDU
-