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Extreme Long Range. Precision rifle shooting at distances from 1000 to 1600 meters. Ultra Long Range. Precision rifle shooting at very long distances of 1600 meters or more. Rimfire. Target rifle shooting with .22LR caliber rifles. Support and Backup firearms. Shooting with pistols and medium range semi-auto rifles. Scoring System
Precision-guided small arms prototypes have been developed which use a laser designator to guide an electronically actuated bullet to a target. [8] Another system in development uses a laser range finder to trigger an explosive small arms shell in proximity to a target. As of 2009, the U.S. Army has plans to use such devices in the future.
The International Precision Rifle Federation (IPRF) is an international federation for field and long range shooting. The shooting takes place from various positions and at varied distances within a limited par time, so that the competitors need to have a good understanding about their ballistics so that they can compensate for wind and distance.
Precision Rifle Series (PRS) is an American long-range and precision rifle-based shooting sport derived from practical shooting. The series have a championship style where competitors collect points from 45 matches spread across nearly twenty U.S. states , and thereby are ranked across the nation. [ 1 ]
The Whitworth rifle was arguably the first long-range sniper rifle in the world. [1] Designed in 1854 by Sir Joseph Whitworth, a prominent British engineer, it used barrels with hexagonal polygonal rifling, which meant that the projectile did not have to "bite" into the rifling grooves as with conventional rifling.
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The Valmet Sniper M86 was used as a basis for the Sako TRG sniper rifle line. Even though the TRG-21 obtained its origins from the successful Sako TR-6 target rifle and 1984–1986 development work for the hardly produced Valmet Sniper M86 rifle by the former Finnish state firearms company Valmet which merged with Sako, the 4.7 kg (10 lb 6 oz) TRG-21 was designed as a result of a thorough ...
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