Fuchs:
WW II most efficent Finnish sniper Simo Hyh used rifle that was used by regular infantry with open sights. No optics, no tuning, just marksmanship and discipline. He killed approx the same number of Soviets with Finnish SMG. Single shot rifle plus SMG. If you have red interviews with German WW II snipers then shooting distance 500m was quite rare. Today US military has rifles with Trijicon sights. Hyh would envy. It all depends on training like Ken says.
M16A1 LMG. Just two thoughts. Those rifles didn't have free float barrels and barrels for accurate shooting at longer distances.
I have been thinking for some time why we need those small unit level marksmen at all, when there is possibility that machine gunners can hit the same target with 10th round? ... or why we need machine gunners if we have marksmen in small units? Machine gunners were in the beginning compensating low shooting speeds of regular infantry with bolt action rifles. That
fire power aspect. Second, due to the bipods and tripods machine guns are more stable for long range shooting. Today you can attatch those shooting aides to your rifle rails. And here we are talking about marksman's kind of machinegun IAR
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