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...per_craig_harrison_the_silent_assassin_breaks_record_kills_target_fro.html British sniper Craig Harrison (The Silent Assassin) breaks record, kills target fro ...rines snipers displaying their L115A1 rifles.jpg|thumb|right|Royal Marines snipers with L115A1 rifles. These rifles are similar to the L115A3 used by Harrison

Snipers are ordinarily equipped with specialised, purpose-built [[bolt-action]] or ...using a rifle chambered with standard-issue rifle ammunition. In addition, snipers often take a fixed strategic position and [[camouflage]] themselves (e.g. w

...13.2 mm Rifle Anti-Tank (Mauser)|Tankgewehr]] to knock out lightly armored British tanks. ...the African campaigns of WW2 in 1941,the Italians in East Africa faced the British.The Commander-The Duke of Aosta gave his personal collection of Elephant Gu

|cartridge= [[.303 British]] ([[7.70×56 mm R]])<br>[[.280 Ross]] ...' was a [[Bolt action#Other designs|straight-pull]] [[bolt action]] [[.303 British|.303 inch]]-[[calibre]] [[rifle]] produced in [[Canada]] from 1903 until 19

...ulars are coming", but was captured before completing his mission when the British marched towards the arsenal in Lexington and Concord to collect the patriot ... models being variants of the civilian [[Remington Model 700]]); the "D.C. Snipers" used a .223 semi-automatic rifle; and Charles Whitman, the 1966 "Texas Tow

For [[snipers]], Karabiner 98k rifles selected for being exceptionally accurate during fa ...ents from Arab attack as well as to carry out guerrilla operations against British Army forces in Palestine.

|cartridge= [[.303 British|.303 Mk VII SAA Ball]] |used_by=United Kingdom & Colonies, British Commonwealth, Thailand

...ing all U.S. forces assigned to NATO would be equipped with the M16A1. The British military was highly vocal in voicing its anger after adopting the 7.62 mm N ...s penetration in the face of the wider introduction of [[body armor]]. The British offered a modified 5.56 mm round, using a longer and thinner bullet of 4.85

... bolt with his hand between each shot. The rifle fired the powerful [[.303 British|.303]] cartridge, which had a hefty recoil, and the magazine could only hol ==British rifle training==

...entral Powers and Russia. The rifles in [[Great Britain]] armed the US and British expeditionary forces sent to North Russia in 1918 and 1919. The rifles stil ... on the Eastern Front, like the Battle of Stalingrad, which made heroes of snipers like [[Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev]] and [[Lyudmila Pavlichenko]]. The snip

...ecord was surpassed in 2009 by Corporal of Horse [[Craig Harrison]] of the British Household Cavalry, who killed two Taliban guerrillas at a range of 2,475 m ...miles/ World longest distance kill - 2,430 metres (1.5 miles)] ''"Canadian snipers in Afghanistan after September 11th made the longest recorded kills in hist

...techniques.<ref>[http://science.howstuffworks.com/sniper1.htm How Military Snipers Work - What Does a Sniper Really Do?] Valdes, Robert; Howstuffworks.com</re ...ymology"/> The verb ''to snipe'' originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India, where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive, difficult snipe (

...with a telescopic sight was commonly used as a sniper rifle by [[Russia]]n snipers.]] ...-of distance at that time.<ref>[http://sc.aspiringtech.net/SnipHistory.asp Snipers in History]</ref><ref>[http://www.lrml.org/collecting/whitworth/c529.htm Wh

...itish]] [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[submachine gun]]s used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout [[World War II]] and the Korean War. The ...ifles. The "Carbine, Machine" element of the designation resulted from the British term for a submachine gun - "Machine Carbine" - in the early part of the Se

...g a leaning rifle onto a hard floor.<ref>Shore, C. (Capt.), ''With British Snipers to the Reich'', Samworth Press, 1948</ref> Many of these criticisms are mor ...2,887.1 ft/s) of the Kar98k, 744 m/s (2,440.9 ft/s) of the [[Great Britain|British]] [[Bren light machine gun|Bren]], 600 m/s (1,968.5 ft/s) ([[M1 carbine|M2

...e external lenses. The scope tube also adds significant bulk to the rifle. Snipers generally used moderate to high magnification scopes with special reticles ...r telescopic sights as they are less rugged than iron sights. Many Finnish snipers in WWII used [[iron sights]] heavily because telescopic sights did not cope

'''''The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers''''' is a book written by Major [[John Plaster]] and published in 1993 ([[ ...ederick Russell Burnham, an American who served as Chief of Scouts for the British Army in Southern Africa. All of this material is covered in much greater de

...(t)''' (died in 1851 or 1852) was an Irish soldier in the [[United Kingdom|British]] 95th (Experimental Corps) Rifles. He is remembered for a feat at Cacabelo ...whose marksmanship (with the Baker rifle) was far better than the ordinary British soldier who, armed with a [[Brown Bess]] musket, was trained to shoot into

...eda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities. The battle also saw Canadian snipers [[Arron Perry]] and [[Rob Furlong]] both break [[Carlos Hathcock]]'s longst ...6.8 mm Remington SPC]] which is [[ballistic]]ally very similar to the .280 British cartridge.

...hine Gun]] equipped with a telescopic sight. This weapon was used by other snipers, and eventually purpose-built sniper rifles were developed especially for t ...m TuF, which was developed by Germany for an [[anti-tank rifle]] to combat British tanks during WWI. However, the development of the U.S. .50 round was starte