Picture of the day

[Buckmastr]

A Chechen Rebel named Musa Baskhanov, 1st Russo-Chechen war.

 

[Quiet]

I'll bet his gloves are lined with squirrel fur.

Glad he was wearing gloves. Feeding the squirrel was probably the most dangerous thing that Luftwaffe guy did all day!

 

[Buckmastr]

Sniper of Russian-backed separatists smoking a cigarette near the village of Vergulivka, Ukraine, 13 February 2015.

 

[Buckmastr]

Venezuelan Marine wearing a ghillie suit and carrying a Dragunov sniper rifle with a fixed bayonet, 2016.

 

[Rob]

Austro-Hungarians with captured Italian gun.

 

[XRCD011]

^ What you get when Steam Punk goes to war.

 

[Falcorn]

Chinese honor guard members march past the words "Victims 300000" during Memorial Day at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing.

 

[Rob]

^ What you get when Steam Punk goes to war.

 

[bdft]

Venezuelan Marine wearing a ghillie suit and carrying a Dragunov sniper rifle with a fixed bayonet, 2016.

If the snipers have to fix bayonets then you've probably already lost.

 

[diopter]

If the snipers have to fix bayonets then you've probably already lost.

Bayonet weight is to help stabilize the barrel whip and sighting consistency. Not as good as a barrel tuner, but easily available.

 

[Buckmastr]

Russian spetsnaz operator armed with a VSSK "vykhlop" sniper rifle. Chamberd in 12.7x55mm STs-130 subsonic round with an integral suppressor.

 

[Buckmastr]

Marine Pfc. Robert Thompson, 19, of Helena, Mont., right, and Pfc. Ryan Topete, 20, of Sioux City, Iowa, look over a high powered sniper rifle that Marines found in the car of a man that was passing by their position in northwest Fallujah on Wednesday, April 14, 2004.

 

[Buckmastr]

Russian sniper from 6 OSN " Vityaz" during the 1st Chechen War. Also known as the First Chechen Campaign, or First Russian-Chechen war was a rebellion by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria against the Russian Federation, fought from December 1994 to August 1996.

 

[Buckmastr]

 

[Buckmastr]

An Irish Guards sniper provides cover during an assault to clear regime forces from a complex in Basrah.

 

[Buckmastr]

A sniper during the 17th Annual Canadian International Sniper Concentration at the 5th CDSB Gagetown, 2013.

 

[Gibbs505]

Third one down, Falklands I think.

 

[diopter]

 

[bush1]

Third one down, Falklands I think.

I would think so as well. That pic shows what most of the island looks like.

 

[Candocad]

I would think so as well. That pic shows what most of the island looks like.

Almost certainly is, and whilst on a Yomp.

Candocad.