Soviet sniper causes 3 casualties with one shot!

[AmmoSgt]

Penetrator ... Actually there should be at least two semi-auto sniper rifles in the game ..The Soviet SVT 40 is a semi-auto firing the same cartridge as the Mosin Nagant 91/30 sniper rifle ..both used the same scopes .. however the SVT was considered a little less accurate. The Other Semi would be the M1D1 version of the M1 Garand .. it had a special barrel and mounted a scope. M1D1 Garands were considered fully as accurate as the M1903A4 snipers. For The Record, there is a Rifle Match that occurs ocasionally , The Name escapes me , but I will dig it up and post it , if anybody is interested, The Basic Rules are 300 meters, Target visible for 1 minute, scoring area is IIRC about 20 inches in Diameter, score is recorded as Hits in the scoring area/ shots fired . the record is held by a British Major firing a British Lee-Enfield No4 Mk1(T) Sniper, with a score of 38/42( thats 38 hits , 42 shots in 1 MINUTE). The Competeion started as a shoot off between Mausers and Enfields but now includes military weapons from all countries, Inculding Semi-Auto. Another serious consideration in that the Finn M39 that is built on M91 Russian series recievers using Finn barrels and stocks was a general issue infantry rifle , that had to meet a bench reat accuracy requirement of 3 rounds touching or inside a 1.5 cm square ( about 3/4 inch group in western center to center style measurement) at 150 meters before being issued to troops . Typical basic issue military rifle accuracy would be more in the 4 to 5 inch group at 100 yards/ meters. Accuracy is, of course, just as dependant on the shooter as the rifle. But the M39 is fully as accurate a rifle with open sights, as any other scoped, offical, purpose built sniper rifle , out to about 300+ meters, and would be and is a slot 1 rifle in game terms.

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Originally posted by AmmoSgt:
Penetrator ... Actually there should be at least two semi-auto sniper rifles in the game ..The Soviet SVT 40 is a semi-auto firing the same cartridge as the Mosin Nagant 91/30 sniper rifle ..both used the same scopes .. however the SVT was considered a little less accurate. The Other Semi would be the M1D1 version of the M1 Garand ..

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There is at least one more. I read that the germans used the Gew43 semi-auto rifle as a sniper weapon. Of course, that weapon, and the earlier Gew41 are entirely missing from the game, as I have pointed out to Vebber.

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I can understand the GW 41 not being in the game, it didn't work very well..not many were made AND issued ..and it wasn't liked by the few troops that were inflicted with it.
However the GW 43 is a different situation all together... well liked, about 500,000 made, appaerntly a majority if not all of them,(depending on sources) equiped with a scope. Production started in Oct 43, with general issue of them starting later that same year. I have no definative accuracy numbers for them. but apparently at least the Czechs like them well enough to use them for elite sniper teams for several years after WW2. Interesting side note, however, Panzerfaust web site list their effective rate of fire at 30 rounds per minute, which is the low end of semi-auto rifles. ( note in above post a bolt action Lee-Enfield, admitedly the fastest turn-bolt action ever made, got 38 hits in one minute). Probably due to the need to load the 10 round magazine( 1 per weapon issued ) by striper clips. I don't know. if anybody has any good sites on this weapon. I would love it if you shared them.