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Old 03-31-2014, 06:52 PM
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I can see why the players would want a anti-material rifle but consider this:

The Barrett M82 TODAY costs around 8,500 USD on the civilian market here in the U.S. That beings said the price has been dropping they used to be around 10,000 USD. Now I have no idea how much they cost the military but when one unit costs that much they pretty cautious about handing them out.

But why have a semi auto AM when you could have a Full-auto HMG like the M2HB?? That can really give soft skinned vehicles a bad hair day.
The M2HB seemed to have worked well enough for Carlos Hathcock.

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Hathcock generally used the standard sniper rifle: the Winchester Model 70 .30-06 caliber rifle with the standard 8-power Unertl scope. On some occasions, however, he used a different weapon: the M2 Browning machine gun, on which he mounted a 10X Unertl scope, using a bracket of his own design. Hathcock made a number of kills with this weapon in excess of 1,000 yards, including his record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,500 yards.
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In 1967 Hathcock set the record for the longest sniper kill. He used a M2 .50 Cal Browning machine gun mounting a telescopic sight at a range of 2,500 yd (2,286 m), taking down a single Vietcong guerrilla.
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