Thread: Best sniper rifle

Are you joking? of course the mariners are a baseball team and a pretty damn good one.... oh wait used to be a good one, now they suck. They have the best baseball player ever on their team right now Ichiro. So, is there any way to get better eyesight without resorting to eye surgery or contacts(which I can't get because my eyes are too dry), something cheap

There are plaenty of exercises to "train" your eyes; don't look at a tv or computer screen for a long time; And don't read a book for too long.

I do all 3 and I can't stop doing all three because I read books and like to read for 30 minutes or more when I read, I play computer games/generally on computer for a long time, and I watch tv a lot more than I should. I can cut the tv time down, but not everything else.

"Couldn't the sniper scope work as glasses? I don't see the problem, I would just magnify the place I want to see and I would have the same vision as people who don't need glasses, I mean I can see humans and cars okay, I just have a hard time with words and I wouldn't need to shoot words, would I?"

The lens on the sniper scope is not corrective, ie, it will not have the properties a particular individual needs to bring their poor eyesight(be it far or nearsightedness) back into focus.

And you also need excellent unaided vision for the job.

In the past, the dream would've ended there for ya, but nowadays there's lasik surgery. Worth a shot....but even with great eyesight there is still no guarantee whatsoever you'll ever be selected for sniper school.

When i joined i wanted to be an Airborne Ranger...never happened, and i had never even dreamed of being a sniper until the course was offered to me by my CO.

"What do you think of this?

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn38-e.htm"

Looks a bit heavy, and i hate bullpups. It is a pretty sharp looking firearm though, and well, .2 MOA speaks for itself...

http://www.allaboutvision.com/askdoc/lasik.htm

Q: What is the cost of LASIK surgery per eye? I am mildly nearsighted with a slight astigmatism. — R.B., Missouri

A: The cost depends on your location. Check your local newspapers, where LASIK surgeons tend to advertise. The price originated at $2,250 per eye. I have seen prices as low as $400 per eye in different parts of the country. — Dr. Slonim

Q: Has the military accepted vision correction procedures such as LASIK? I know they are looking into it, but I haven't heard anything in a long time.

A: I believe some branches of the military do accept LASIK. Ask your recruiting officer. — Dr. Slonim

I don't know about about you but I have a HUGE PROBLEM LETTING A STRANGER POINT A LASER INTO MY EYE

I have a question for you guys, would you rather have a surgeon point a laser at your eyes to remove corneal tissue or would you rather have a surgeon cut slits into your cornea with a very sharp knife or a heat laser pointed at your eye.


m21Sniper- the cost, the risks and how the operation is done scares any sane person

"m21Sniper- the cost, the risks and how the operation is done scares any sane person"

Well then i guess you have to ask yourself just how much you want to be a sniper.

Compared to the risks you'd face on a scout-sniper team, Lasik is hardly any threat at all.

Well, I think I do want to be a sniper because if I join some military branch( I probably will) and get sent to Iraq (Probably will) then I don't want to go door to door searching for enemies who look like the natives, I don't want to go on patrols and get killed by a roadside bomb ( I'd rather die on the ground, shooting), I do not want to go and check people who look like they are dead only to find that they are really alive or they have some kind of bomb on them. I would rather want to be in a combat area but away from close action but close enough to snipe the enemies. Do you remember that duck shooting game for nintendo 64? I want to be hunter and they are the ducks

I'm going to go into the EOD; I don't get shot-up, and I'm the one who detects and defuses the roadside bombs. I'm highly trained on how to spot those IEDs and disarm them and/or blow them up.
Also, I can do all of that from inside a nearby building. All that with a $22,000 taxless yearly paycheck and a whole lot of prestige.
And plenty of "vacations" throughout the world. I eventually want to be stationed at Okinawa.

And plenty of "vacations" throughout the world. I eventually want to be stationed at Okinawa.

What's your definition of plenty? Every tour of duty a U.S. Army person gets one out-of-country R and R, one in-country R and R, plus one leave in or out of the country- that's what I found when I read "Soldier" by Anthony E Herbert. Of course that was back in Vietnam, it must have changed now. I don't envy your job, I'd rather die getting shot than die from incorrectly defusing a bomb, but that's just me. A lot of soldiers seem to be dying from roadside bombs, like 2 or 4 every week or something, I am wondering how are roadside bombs concealed and how are they deactivated. Do you just a mine sweeper?

All that with a $22,000 taxless yearly paycheck and a whole lot of prestige.

22,000 a year? Is that something to be proud of? I am not sure where you are getting this whole lot of prestige, personally another who is willing to make a commitment to spend such a long time anywhere is granted my admiration

Okay. If I don't need a house (I can stay at my dad's farm; an awesome place), or food, or pay for health insurance; that'll easily kill $1900 a month. After taxes, a $35,000 salarie will become $24,000. Plus there's food and a house and insurance and such. After that, you'll end-up with almost nothing.
Also, I call a vacation as going somewhere that is out of the ordinary. Iraq is not ordinary, nor is Japan. And a paid 30 day vacation come with your pay as full-duty. Housing and everything.

I'd rather die from incorrectly defusing a bomb than from getting shot; it's much more painless.
Roaside bombs are usually partially buried in the ground or are right beside the road, and are triggered by either a person or wire, etc. One was almost triggered by a cell phone.
To locate an IED, you can use many many machines, or your eyes. There are perhaps hundreds of tools and techniques used to locate an IED. And nearly all the time you don't have to actually go to the bomb site; you can use those very handy TALON or other robots. DARPA is even testing remote-controlled rats, and a high-pressure water gun. And if you do have to go defuse it yourself, the colored wire stunt commonly used in hollywood is often untrue.
Most of the time you don't have to defuse it; just shoot it with an m82 or place a stick of c4 on top of the bomb.

I am one of the few people willing to devote most of their life to protecting and keeping the freedom that many take for granted. My plan is to serve for the Army for 30 years (SWEET retirement plan) then buy my dad's farm and become a class 3 gun dealer.