...being this is a Wooden Sniper Rifle, the most powerful handmade gun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Is that foot odor I smell?

Old cartoons like this are to new cartoons....What Lone Wolf Mcquad was to "The Texas Ranger". The original went to war with the cartels, from great distances with his sniper rifle, to close up with his Mac-10's, to murderous hand to hand combat. "The Texas Ranger" and his side kick shot their guns out of their hands

I've played airsoft like this for a few years now off an on so feel well enough qualified to comment.

It's largely a matter of range. Most sites allow up to 500fps on snipers (and some american ones go up to 800 or so I believe), but they have a minimum engagement range (usually about 25 meters, presumably more for the silly american ones).

Basically, non automatic sniper rifles are allowed to be significantly more powerful than the 330fps (400 in some countries) other weapons are limited to, but as a result can't be used at short range (that's what pistols and compact SMG's are for!).

If you are close to the minimum range limit and it hits unprotected skin, they sting really badly, enough to draw a little blood sometimes. It's not entirely dissimilar to being whipped by a wet towel, excruciating for about half a second then it tails off to just stinging and swearing.

If it hits your vest, glasses, hat etc. then it wont really hurt at all (but you still felt it you cheating bastards! ), likewise if you are out beyond 50meters or so as the power drops off with range as you'd expect. (My brother can sometimes make shots out to 70-80meters with a VSR but you can barely feel it)

Shoot at point blank and your target can be forgiven for walking over and punching you in the face....right after they stop swearing and get up off the ground. (entirely possible to penetrate exposed skin at that range)

In practice though, trying to storm a building/room vs automatic rifles etc. tends to be far more painful an experience than being sniped. Unless that is someone snipes the inside of your nose sideways on (it hurt as much as you imagine it did).

We also once had a guy knocked clean out by a grenade launcher to the face at point blank . But it was a Co2 powered thing and I believe they aren't allowed inside buildings any more (can't think why).

Re: paintballs, in my much more limited experience, they are waaaaay worse than BB's if they are full power and reasonably close range. Concussions, broken bones and broken skin are all entirely possible (though not likely), but bruises and welts are basically standard issue.

I believe some sites run compressed air guns (rather than Co2) at much lower power levels, so I imagine they are a lot more tolerable.
Paintballers tend to be more on the extreme sports side of things (wheras airsoft tends to be more biased towards military geeks/gamers), and so many sites have a bit of a "pain is weakness leaving the body" attitude to power levels.

In the UK at least the velocity limit for paintballs at competition level is 300fps, for most airsoft sites the limit is 330fps. You only have to look at a BB vs a paintball to see what a discrepancy in energy that equates to!!!

Noob terrorist always camping

Surprised a sniper rifle shot doesn't penetrate a helmet.

Your first line defense is a decent sniper rifle, ask any special ops or marine....er, same creature.

This IS truly great. It makes me look up at the 1% and say "I need a sniper rifle!" Wow, such motivation...

My problem with movie guns is the "hand cannon" sound. Like in all the Dirty Harry movies. Every pistol shot seems to sound like a 50cal Barrett sniper rifle in a sewer pipe.

As cool sounding as it is wrong.

I must agree with you.

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This is proper proportions for bikini tops and sniper rifles IMHO

This is proper proportions for bikini tops and sniper rifles IMHO

Well, sorta...

Since he happens to have one of the top subscribed youtube channels, a couple gun manufacturers have noticed him and loan him guns to show off in his channel. He also competes in shooting competitions. >> ^mxxcon:

>> ^syncron:
Where does he get those things?
He prolly runs or has connections with somebody that owns a gun store?
Then again, this is Georgia we are talking about..

>> ^syncron:

Where does he get those things?
He prolly runs or has connections with somebody that owns a gun store?
Then again, this is Georgia we are talking about..

>> ^syncron:

Where does he get those things?


He answered this recently. He buys most and borrows the rest.

I Lol'd when one of the bad guys was firing that 50 cal sniper rifle, from the hip.

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party have used excessively violent rhetoric and symbolism at their rallies. The detail receiving the most attention is Sarah Palin's map graphic of Democratic 'targets' with sniper rifle crosshairs trained on each targeted opponent - Gifford being one of the targets. There have been warnings over the last couple of years that the influence of this kind of violent rhetoric on impressionable and unstable minds could lead to tragedy.

Here is the graphic: http://i.imgur.com/gs0t7.jpg

Here is an article with more details on this subject: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/gabrielle-giffords-shooting_b_806232.html>>

^blankfist:

Why is everyone blaming Palin? What did she do?
Just curious. I didn't hear anything about Palin in the report, but some of the comments here seemed to allude to her involvement.