https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG
LARPfag here. The StG77 is the only rifle I know, but I can't believe you can ask for more.
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Look through telescope
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Put center of crosshairs over target
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Pull trigger
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See target pop
Muzzle velocity is 970m/s -- no imagination or mental acrobatics required for targets closer than a hundred yards. Aim a palm or so higher for each extra hundred yards. The rifle is mostly made of plastic and absolutely no burden, not even on 30 ml walks. Careful cleaning is a requirement for automatic action, though, especially for and after using blinds.
How does that compare to U.S. army rifles? Or a Kalashnikov? A problem for guerilleros might be that all parts are machine-tooled, so you need special equipment for making spares.
I was Marine Corps back during OIF, but I'm long out now
When I was in basic, long range on iron sights was a point of pride. We were taught how to adjust both sight posts and legitimately got good with it. Now, with ACOGs distance shooting is much easier.
I didn't know Austria had such lax gun laws! I'm putting it on my list as a back up country for when the States goes socialist.
No, we don't have to prove anything to buy ammo, but you need ammo to zero and right now ammo is HARD to find.
Glad you made it back (: There were just two Austrians in Iraq, afaik, as unarmed medic (neutral country, contractual obligation like Finland)
Had to look that up. Yes, looks like a fany piece of hardware.
... that makes old craftmanship and skill obsolete... The technical advantage sounds like a prothesis for a gift a friend has, which is that he has a shortsighted and a farsighted eye or something so he can see both the target and iron sights at the same time, what made him an IPSC natural
Why? Popular theories (this really is a thing in conversations, many armed friends):
1.) Austrian companies make that stuff and want to sell sell sell
2.) Hunting is a thing, especially with ex-royalty, who still has a lot of leverage
3.) 20th century military doctrine, which is essentially training for winter war (Finns got the Soviets BTFOed like 10:1 bodycount or so) and requires an armed, motivated militia
4.) Austria is a money-laundering narco-state, so running guns is a natural extra economy
I keep reading about that and think you guys are doing it right.
Austria is breeeety socialist on the face of it, but only in the big city. On the countryside, not so much (Hitler).