Olympic shooter vs. military sniper?
It is one thing to compete in a game it is another to depend on your skills for your life and others. The sniper is a trained killer who uses a single shot. An Olympic shooter may be accurate as a sniper, but he would wither before his 1000th kill. He is not a killer. The difference here is in the training. A sniper, will go through rigorous training to bring out the intestinal fortitude, the iron balls to get in the way of danger risking life and limb. Really its a comparison of apples to oranges because it is all about the circumstances. Olympic shooters are given every opportunity to fire from the most level of circumstances, compared to the upside down nature of war. If I am in the Olympics, give me an Olympic Shooter. If I am in Afghanistan facing the Taliban I need that sniper to methodically mow down as many as possible and not wilt due to circumstances. I need him to crawl camouflaged in position and lay in the cut for 2 days and get the enemy. I need his training to kill or we will be killed. An Olympic shooter does not go through Sniper School Training. If it were the same, then we have no need for Sniper School, we can just get Olympic Shooters dressed in white pants and their nation's colors and fire at the enemy. http://www.sniperschool.com/courses http://www.usashooting.org/rulebook.php Hardly severe circumstances for the Olympic shooter, the Sniper is trained to be accurate in the most severe and dire of circumstances. Best.
What are the best Tactical Shooter games on the PS3?
Okay battlefield bad company 2 is a good game to play to make your own paths etc. It also has a story to it. You can switch from 1st to 3rd person. fallout new Vegas I'd say is one of the most tactical 1st/3rd person shooter out there for ps3. Tom clanceys advances warfare is a good game but its a fps. Lost planet 2 is a good game also. Doesn't have a story to it though. Although it is tactical. And a 3rd person shooter. That's all I got for you.
What are the best free-to-play first person shooters?
I'll kick things off with a few of the F2P FPS games that I am currently aware of and/or playing at the moment:Hawken - http://www.playhawken.com/Mission Against Terror - https://mat.subagames.com/PlanetSide 2 - http://www.planetside2.com/Team Fortress 2 - http://www.teamfortress.com/
What are some of the best first-person shooter (FPS) games?
My Top Ten:Medal of Honor (Series)Call of Duty (Series)Battlefield (Series)Sniper: Ghost Warrior (Series)Wolfenstein (Series)ARMA (Series)Tom Clancy's (Series)Counter-Strike (Series)Half-Life (Series)CrossFireOthers:Dying LightFar Cry (Series)BioShock (Series)Unreal (Series)Halo (Series)Crysis (Series)Time Crisis (Series)Police Quest (S.W.A.T. Series)Cabela's (Series)Dead Island (Series)The House of the Dead (Series)Resident Evil (*My favorite series ever, but it’s not usually FPS, only a few titles)Resident Evil SurvivorResident Evil Survivor 2 Code: VeronicaResident Evil: Dead AimResident Evil: The Umbrella ChroniclesResident Evil: The Darkside ChroniclesUmbrella CorpsResident Evil 7: Biohazard
Why didn't the union use six shooters during the civil war?
Because handguns (all types) don't have adequate range for massed infantry tactics. Repeating rifles were also available in limited numbers, and were too expensive to produce in sufficient numbers to equip large numbers of soldiers. Many (most) officers were iissued revolvers and many bought and used their own. The Confederacy also used revolvers very extensively, but they were limited by having fewer factories to produce arms. Read the link. Educate yourself a little bit about Civil War weaponry and you can avoid asking questions in the future that are based on incorrect assumptions.http://www.civilwarweapons.net/
Do FPS shooting games make you better with a gun?
I’ve been playing FPS games since the original Wolfenstein. I shudder to think of how many hours I’ve logged just in the Call of Duty series alone. I’ve been lucky enough to go to great ranges that rent exotic weapons, and have fired hundreds of rounds through pretty much every “cool” gun in the series - AK 47 and AK74; M60 and M249, M16 and M4, P90, Dragunov, Barrett .50, MP5, Steyr Aug, etc.Here’s what FPS gaming did for me regarding all of those guns: It let me visually identify them and know how many rounds they carry in their respective magazines. The games do nothing regarding helping my accuracy, they don’t give you a real idea of how much they kick, and they sure as hell don’t show you how heavy they are. Try running with a Barrett .50 and an AK47 and a bunch of ammo for both.What the games can do, though, is give you a VERY rudimentary sense of tactics, such as “Gee, if I go out in that wide open area I’ll get shot. Better to hide behind a car or a pile of sandbags.”I guess maybe the games do show you that it’s much easier to stay on target shooting single shot vs. full auto, but they don’t really show how inaccurate you get if you just hold the trigger down and dump 30 rounds of 7.62 at a target.The only area that’s probably close is with the sniper rifles. In the game, if you put the dot on the target, you hit it if they aren’t moving. True story: I took a friend to the range who had never shot a gun at all. His first shot ever from any gun was from a Dragunov rifle at I believe 10 yards. First shot was dead center on the bullseye. His next 4 weren’t too far off the mark, either. So if a game shows that a sniper rifle is deadly accurate at 10 yards or less, well, they are.
Replacing the flash suppressor on a Mini 14 tactical?
There are 2 possible obstacles you need to overcome, but don't let them stop you. Customizing is a great way to get more comfortable with your own rifle. Mechanically there is nothing to it. Your barrel thread type (it should be standard 1/2 28TPI but not all are) And where you front sight is. If your front sight is integral you need to look at what MSP did at shot show (link below), or just get a scope and say goodbye to iron sights, which I don't recommend. Or use some of the barrel clamp style front sights. If you want to read more about some muzzle options click the second link. The best way to find out how your barrel is threaded is either research your specific model/call ruger or take off the flash hider you have. If you take it off, you are going to want a new crush washer to put it back on though. In my experience re-using the old one is a bad idea. If you get the PWS, it should come with a crush washer anyway. Changing muzzle threatments is simple and easy if the threads match. Of your 3 options, I would go with the middle one (PWS FSC). It performs very well as a hybrid brake/flash hider and it is not too much louder for you as a shooter. The spikes does much less to reduce recoil and flash by comparison. The yankee hill that glacier mentioned is a nice perfoming and cheap option, but not the only choice at all. There are many, many options that use the same attachment method if you eventually want a sound suppressor. But it is awful for attaching a suppressor as it can't hold a consistent zero. If you do want to go the sound suppressor route one day, then when you buy one get the attachment recommended by whoever makes your suppressor. Some, like Gemtec, give you one free when you buy their suppressor.