"How can you get a snipe?"

"I'd use an 8mm remington magnum, hunting rifles are better than anything I saw in the military. If you're sniping you don't need fast reload or big mags, just a good rifle. The 8mm will take down an elk at around 300-400 yards(depending on the shooter), it will take down anything human or zombie."

"You're right I probably wasn't but I was in the Navy as a nuclear machinist mate, not a whole lot of action in the belly of an aircraft carrier. But still a good hunting rifle should still do the trick. Unless I were to rob Fort Hood, which I won't."

"Before thread extends right along, someone wanna define what a sniper rifle is?

Not too sure that many folks here either have practical knowledge of working end of rifles or have gathered their current thinking from popular e.entertainment.

SnC *KindaAmusedDaily*"

"Can't resist.

1. get a burlap bag an flashlight
2. take bag an flashlight into woods
3. open bag like your shoveling leaves into it.
4. turn on flash light right behind bag so light shines thru
an (giggle)
5. in hushed voice say "here snipe, snipe,snipe!" an reapeat till they run into bag attracted to the light."

"Before thread extends right along, someone wanna define what a sniper rifle is?

Not too sure that many folks here either have practical knowledge of working end of rifles or have gathered their current thinking from popular e.entertainment.

SnC *KindaAmusedDaily*"

"Wikipedia makes me sad. A TRUE sniper rifle is not defined by its intended use or user but rather by its actual user, as any average Joe can pick up a rifle designed for sniping and hit nothing at 800 yards but only someone with the actual skills can take an ordinary rifle and turn it into something more than the sum of its parts and hit something at 800 yards. The reason that this is so is that a sniper rifle is not what makes a sniper but the skills of a person as there is much more to sniping than simply having a rifle that can engage a target at long range with high mechanical accuracy(mechanical accuracy is the accuracy of a firearm when exempt from shooter error).

so again the vast majority of people need to forget sniper rifles and use something like an accurate battle rifle or hunting rifle that will allow you to engage at 300-500yds with minimal skill other than knowing simple wind, movement, and drop calculations."