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The Barrett M107 is a .50 caliber, shoulder-fired, semi-automatic sniper rifle. Like its predecessors, the rifle is said [according to whom?] to have manageable recoil for a weapon of its size owing to the barrel assembly that itself absorbs force, moving inward toward the receiver against large springs with every shot.
The Barrett Optical Ranging System (BORS) was an integrated ballistics computer manufactured by Barrett Firearms that aids snipers and long-range marksmen in taking precise and accurate shots. The system mounts directly to the riflescope and couples with the elevation knob. With the aid of the BORS, marksmen can rapidly account for temperature ...
Pages in category ".50 BMG sniper rifles" ... Barrett M82; Barrett M90; Barrett M95; Barrett M99; Barrett XM500; Bushmaster BA50 Rifle; C. CSR 50; Cyclone (rifle) D ...
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing is an Australian-owned, American manufacturer of firearms and ammunition located in Christiana, Tennessee.It was founded in 1982 by Ronnie G. Barrett for the purpose of building semi-automatic rifles chambered for the .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) ammunition, originally developed for and used in M2 Browning machine guns.
An integrated ballistic computer/telescopic sight system known as BORS has been developed by the Barrett Firearms Company and became commercially available around 2007. The BORS module is in essence an electronic Bullet Drop Compensation (BDC) sensor/calculator package intended for long-range sniping out to 2,500 m (2,700 yd) for some ...
Among the weapons seized were Barrett .50-caliber rifles; the entire cache was sold for $169,900, which the federal agency said was "a markup from the retail price of the guns so (one of the ...
In the 1980s, Ronnie Barrett of Tennessee invented the Barrett Model 82, the first sniper rifle to use a .50-caliber heavy machine gun round, as opposed to a military small arms or hunting round ...
The Barrett M90 is a BMG .50 caliber bolt-action rifle. The rifle was produced by Barrett Firearms Company in 1990 until 1995. The Barrett M90 is the alternative bolt-action version to the Barrett M82A1, which is the semi-automatic counterpart. The Barrett M90 has a bullpup design, making the rifle a more compact version of a BMG .50 caliber.