“A sniper can forget to eat, to drink, to breathe even, but a sniper never, ever forgets to care for his rifle.”
Here I am, casually adapting the words of wisdom of the Witcher Vesemir of Kaer Morhen.
I swear my instructor used to tell us just the same about rifles, only with more cursing involved, as I recall.
This one here is a CheyTac M200 intervention. The range of effective fire varies from 6003 to 6889 ft, 1830 to 2100 meters, for those of you who live in a country with a more logical length measurement system. I pushed it to 2300, still worked fine.
Range and accuracy wise this rifle is still pretty much unrivalled. It is, however, hard to transport because of its size. It is also rather expensive, reason why most countries didn’t choose it as dotation for their snipers. One thing I seem to have in common with the British government : price is none of my concern. Admittedly, though, I leave this at home when the job doesn’t require a long range accuracy as much as a fast retreat.
I have mixed feelings about this particular rifle: we’ve got some damned history, together.
-SM
