What sniper rifle has the longest shooting range?

With or without a flash suppressor?

Although most cites I’ve read seem to support thge 50 cal. Barrett. (Such a sexy Rifle) :)

There is one other: the CheyTac M200 Intervention…we are talking about roughly 1 mile accuracy…

The one you get on level 6 is the best.

The Red Rider. It’ll put an eye out for sure.

The .408 Cheytac cartridge has the longest range of any commonly used sniper rifle cartridge in production today- with an effective maximum range greater than 2000 meters (that’s 500 meters further than the .50 BMG)

The sniper rifle with the longest range would probably either be the THOR XM408, or the Cheytac M-200 Intervention, both of which fire the .408 cartridge.

The currently held world record for the longest range sniper kill is 2,430 metres, accomplished by Corporal Rob Furlong of the Canadian Light Infantry during the invasion of Afghanistan. He accomplished the shot using a .50 caliber BMG McMillan TAC-50 bolt-action rifle.

@Cruiser, I was wondering what he used. I thought it was a Cheytac. Thanks for the info.

@Cruiser This is meaningless interesting considering the number of unreported long range sniper kills.

@davidbetterman I doubt many if any LR kills go unreported. Any sniper capable of pulling off a mile long kill is highly trained, got great gear and a spotter that know to the inch the distance of his target and will most certainly let anyone know if they tagged a record kill. Them’s some serious bragging rights there for sure.

The record that @Cruiser cites is the current one to the best of my knowledge. 2000m kills are relatively common with equipment like the M82/M107 and their other .50 BMG equivalents.
@davidbetterman Unless the operation itself is classified, a shot like that becomes famous very quiclky. Military marksmen are a very competitive lot.
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard You are correct that this new .408 round is marginally more accurate at extreme ranges. At long range, the inherent accuracy of the weapon and cartridge (as long as they can reach that far) are less important than accurate spotting and wind-doping. A 7.62 NATO sniper rifle, like the M24, is quite capable of 1500m, but the 710 grain .50 Browning is less affected by wind.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land, also, the cartridge that the Canadian sharpshooter used was specifically an American made .50 BMG cartridge, which has slightly longer max effective range than the Canadian .50 BMG (even though both are interchangeable)

It’s also interesting to note that many military rifles of the late 19th-early 20th century had iron sights calibrated out to 2000m. This was intended for volley fire against troop formations. Such calibration of sights disappeared as the infantry tactic of massed frontal assault was abandoned.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land, speaking of volley sights, I found a 1915 Lithgow SMLE fitted with volley sights and a magazine cutoff for $125. I passed it up, but I think I’ll pick it up this weekend

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Mk II then? Does it have a dust cover over the bolt? I don’t remember when that was eliminated.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land @Cruiser
“_ Unless the operation itself is classified, a shot like that becomes famous very quiclky._”

Don’t you think those types of missions are always classified?

@davidbetterman No. Covert ops rarely involve long-range shooting. Been there, done that, have the T-shirt.

The large device on the muzzle of a long-range rifle is a muzzle-brake, not a flash-surpressor. It holds the muzzle down for a quicker follow-up shot. Some muzzle brakes work also to minimize gas turbulance at the muzzle, allowing the bullet to fly in undisturbed air.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land
Apparently you missed the Nam and Nicaragua,

@davidbetterman The long-range work in Vietnam, such as Hathcock and Plaster did, were not covert. Ultra long-range shots require the use of a weapon that is difficult to hide or “sterilize”. Almost all assasination-type shots are within 500m, which is considered short-to-medium range.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land Obviously, if you know about them they were not covert. It is the ones you don’t know about, which were.

@davidbetterman So there is no point in speculating about them.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land One Shot One Kill was one of the most riveting books I have ever read. White Feather…what an amazing story.

@Cruiser That 2500 yard record shot was done with a standard M2 Browning Machine Gun that Hathcock had mounted a scope on. That record held up for 35 years until several members of a Canadian team shot longer in 2002. The USMC named the Quantico range for him.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land That record was my first thought when I saw this question.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land, yeah, I think it may be a Mk II. I’m probably gonna pick it up if it’s still there. I already have a No1 Mk III, but a Mk II would be really cool, especially a Lithgow.

The laser designator that is linked to a fully loaded A-10.

How the hell di David kill Goliath with a slingshot?

@zenele The sling used in those times was a totally different weapon than what we call a slingshot.