For a close protection officer, the primary tactic against sniper attacks is defensive: avoid exposing the principal to the risk of being fired upon.

For instance, a mid to high end ($ 100 +) automatic rifle uses between 0. 20 – 0. 30 gram BBs, while sniper rifles work best with 0. 30 or higher.

For the rest of the siege, there was little action other than occasional raids, minor skirmishes, and sniper fire.

For this, together with the Medal for Courage, Vasily was also awarded a sniper rifle.

For much of its life, four different models were proposed: a compact PDW ( personal defense weapon ) with a 9. 5-inch ( 241 mm ) barrel, a carbine with a 12. 5-inch ( 318 mm ) barrel, a sniper and automatic rifle variant, both with 20-inch ( 508 mm ) barrels.

For a typical. 338 Lapua Magnum high end factory military sniper rifle like the Sako TRG-42 with a long 305 mm ( 1 in 12 inch ) rifling twist rate barrel at sea level, is considered to be the maximum shooting distance for man sized targets.

For example, in the maze levels featured in the game, as well as one " sniper mode " mission in East Berlin, enemies are seen briefly bleeding from the head when killed, despite the prohibition on graphic violence and gore.

For example, within the state of Texas only eight guardsmen are presented this award for rifle, eight for pistol, two for sniper, and two for machine gun each year.

For his continued attempts at climbing the slopes of a wadi whilst wounded and under sniper fire, he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

For example, one platoon will specialize in Long Range Surveillance missions, another will specialize in Pathfinder missions and a third will specialize in sniper and target acquisition missions.

For example, in the Beltway sniper attacks, the offender profile indicated that the killer was probably a white male in his thirties from the DC area acting alone — in fact, the crimes were perpetrated by two black males, one of whom was 41 and the other 17 years old, from the west coast of the U. S.

For example, the Russian Model 1891 rifle with an 800 mm ( 31. 5 inch ) barrel was shortened to 730 mm ( 28. 75 in.

For example, unlike when handloading rifle and pistol cartridges, where all the various components ( cases, gas checks, powder, primers, etc.

For similar reasons, concerned over poor marksmanship during the American Civil War, veteran Union officers Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association of America in 1871 for the purpose of promoting and encouraging rifle shooting on a " scientific " basis.

For example, the internal lower receiver of civilian AR-15 rifles is milled differently and has a much smaller cavity than that of the military-issue M16, and M16 parts such as the fire-control group cannot fit in a civilian rifle without extensive machining.

For example, a bullet with a muzzle velocity of 3050 ft / s fired from a barrel with a twist rate of 1 in ( e. g., the M16A2 rifle ) spins at 313, 714 rpm.

For example, Simo Häyhä is credited with killing 505 Soviet soldiers, many falling victim to his Finnish M / 28-30 Mosin – Nagant rifle.

For new recruits and rifle practice, a simple light blue overall with a brown belt may be worn.

For private soldiers and noncommissioned officers, this meant the M1892 / 98 Springfield ( Krag ) bolt action rifle in. 30 Army (. 30-40 ) caliber: " They succeeded in getting their cartridges, revolvers ( Colt. 45 ), clothing, shelter-tents, and horse gear ... and in getting the regiment armed with the Krag-Jorgensen carbine used by the regular cavalry.

" For example, a small bore rifle with a diameter of 0. 22 inch is a. 22 cal ; however, the decimal point is generally dropped when spoken, making it " twenty-two caliber " or a " two-two caliber ".

For example, a firearm might be described as a ". 30 caliber rifle ", which could be any of a wide range of cartridges using a roughly. 30 inch projectile ; or a ". 22 rimfire ", referring to any rimfire cartridge using a. 22 caliber projectile.

For east coast recruits, phase two is swim qualification, rifle qualification, and Team Week, a week of maintenance duties for the island as a show of how to perform mundane tasks while still keeping military bearing and attention to detail.

For example, a rifle weighing 5 pounds firing a 150 grain bullet, the recoil energy will be only 0. 43 percent of the total kinetic energy developed.

For example, a bullet fired from an M16 rifle has approximately 1763 Joules of kinetic energy as it leaves the muzzle, but the recoil energy of the gun is less than 7 Joules.

For the earliest line that traveled through New Mexico Territory, the Jackass Mail, a San Diego newspaper suggested " ne Sharps rifle and 100 rounds, a Colt and two pounds of lead, a knife, a pair of thick wool pants, a half dozen pairs of thick socks, six undershirts, three overshirts, a wide-awake hat, a cheap sack coat, an overcoat, one pair of blankets in summer and two in winter, gauntlets, needles, pins, a sponge, hair brush, comb, soap, two pairs of thick drawers, and three or four towels.

For instance, as of September 2008, a transferable M16 rifle costs approximately $ 11, 000 to $ 18, 000, while a transferable " lightning-link " for the AR-15 can sell for $ 8, 000 to $ 10, 000.

For the Volcanic rifle, Smith added a primer charge to Hunt's " Rocket Ball " and thus created one of the first fixed metallic cartridges which incorporated bullet, primer and powder in one self-contained unit.

For a small-or full-bore rifle, the firearm certificate ( FAC ) will need to show permission for the purchase of a suppressor and also the gun for which it is intended.

For instance, the new bolt-action 7. 5 × 54 French MAS-36 rifle was belatedly adopted 7 years after the switch ( in 1929 ) to the same modern rimless ammunition.

For a given cartridge, a bolt-action rifle is cheaper to build and maintain, more reliable, and lighter, due to fewer moving parts in the mechanism.

For comparison, a competition target or benchrest rifle may be capable of accuracy up to 0. 15-0. 3 MOA ( 0. 05-0. 1 mrad ).

For cleaning the weapon had a brass oiler bottle and pull through held inside the butt stock ( similar to the Lee-Enfield rifle ).

For rifle bullets, this will probably be a supersonic velocity, for pistol bullets it will be probably be subsonic.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.

For a while he was content to let events develop in their good time.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

For over a hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them.

For it was neglected, not to say nascent, when the struggle began.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

For Rachel, conceded to be the prettiest of the Szold girls -- and she did make a pretty picture sitting in the grape-arbor strumming her guitar and singing in her silvery tones -- there was no particular March counterpart ; ;

For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

For a few minutes there was nothing to hear.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

For it was the millions of buffalo and prairie chicken and the endless seas of grass that symbolized for a whole generation of Americans the abundant supply that was to take many of them westward when the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to fill.

For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.

For a while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art.

For years he wore hand-me-down suits and homemade paper collars, was even driven to scrounging for cigarette butts in Vienna's gutters.