What's the actual difference between a DMR and a Sniper Rifle? When does a rifle become a sniper rifle?
DMR vs Sniper Rifle
Jacob Ward
Samuel Powell
>when does a rifle becone a sniper['s] rifle
When a sniper uses it, dishpit.
Jaxson Young
Its arbitrary and ill defined, but generally DMRs have effective ranges at around 700m, more than the 400m of standard rifles and less than the 1km+ of sniper rifles. It's common for the DM just use the standard rifle with match grade ammo and more powerful sights.
Gavin Fisher
DMR usually = semi auto effective out to maybe 800ish meters
"sniper rifle" usally = bolt action effective out to 2000+ meters
Aaron Bell
When you equip a scope and the deep penetration/stopping power perks.
Jaxson Cook
>it's range dependent
what's the difference between a "designated marksman" and a sniper
Parker Lewis
>When does a rifle become a sniper rifle?
When a sniper is shooting it.
>It's common for the DM just use the standard rifle with match grade ammo and more powerful sights.
Lel. If you're in the US the DM might have a nice match grade AR-10 and a good scope but he's usually shooting the same garbage ammo they feed the 240s with.
Austin Evans
Order of battle.
Jason Campbell
A designated marksman is a member of the squad or platoon. A sniper pair will generally be away doing their own thing, though I understand the brits sometimes have snipers (wookiee suit and all) organic to their platoons.
Wyatt James
DMR could be a configuration of an existing service rifle or variant that is met for accurate fire but flexible in a CQB environment, while Sniper Rifle is usually just a rifle purposely built for longer range accurate fire.
Most DMR's are simply scoped service rifles.
Leo Bailey
>What's the actual difference between a DMR and a Sniper Rifle?
Cost
Jacob Johnson
>garbage
Dont shoot a lot of .308, do you?
Lincoln Jenkins
fpbp
Christian Sanders
Not him, but I'm curious (and new to .308)...
What did you mean by this post?
Colton Morgan
designated marksman works as part of a squad
sniper works as part of a team
OP doesn't work
Luke Myers
M118LR, MK316 Mod 0
Carson Myers
>DMR
Used by designated marksmen in squads.
>Sniper Rifle
Used by snipers.
Kayden Moore
A DMR rifle needs to function within the roles a squad might be tasked with, a sniper rifle can be whatever highly specialized equipment is needed to accurately hit at extended ranges.
Connor Reyes
What the fuck are you talking about
Michael Diaz
That's not what the m240s have in them
Luis Bennett
Sniper role is recon and first round hits on high value targets
Marksmen are inside a normal infantry section.
Snipers need to be relied on more to work unsupervised and observe from a hide where the two of them are responsible for everything happening, a marksman is just another weapon and optic for a section commander with range similar to his machine gun. As far as shooting first round hits are less important for a marksman, he probably has his sights on a "battle" setting and knows his aim off points, rather than taking time to set up his first shot
Justin Carter
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Noah Thomas
SAW gunners suppress targets. Designated marksmen actually shoot the targets while they are suppressed. I'm not sure what the chumps with the regular assault rifles do.
Alexander Stewart
They maneuver in close drop a grenade on the guy and stab whatever is still wiggling afterwards with their bayonet. If the enemy has a shovel it's hard to shoot him from afar but you can ensure he stays put
Lucas Hill
DM is a member of a squad or fire team.
Sniper work alone or in pair.
Wyatt Baker
^^^^^^^^^^
This is an outstanding explanation.