New sniper rifle

[Ninurta]

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To your point about lugging spare barrels, bolt faces, etc... along with a 15 lb monstrosity of a rifle all over creation though, I don't think that's the actual intent. Changing calibers in the field on the fly doesn't sit right with me purely because of the fact that Point of Impact can shift, even minutely, even when switching back to the original barrel... Hell let's say it's as little as .05mil in any direction... Well, that's still a .5cm shift at 100 meters that you can't account or plan for... Stretch that out to 1500 meters? That could be the difference between a hit, and just exposing your position. Not mention that when switching calibers, you would now have to carry all the data from the previous time you used that caliber and "re-zero" the rifle for that caliber without a firing a test group... No, I think the idea is to lessen the load on basic, background logistics. Instead of shipping and inventorying 4 different rifles, each with their own case.. You now only worry about 1 rifle with 4 barrels, all of which can fit in 1 slightly larger case... And then set the rifle up for each individual intended mission. That's the logic I'm speculating they're actually going for anyway...

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You're probably right. I just heard the bit about a caliber change in under two minutes, and equated it with the end user rather than logistics and an armorer. Your assessment makes more sense. I've never been credited with an overabundance of sense.

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