Thursday 15 March 2018

Mauser Sniper Rifle


"5. Determining the combat characteristics of the German sniper rifle

The results of determining the muzzle velocity of the German sniper rifle are included in attachment #4, where you can see that the muzzle velocity of the Mauser rifle #6448 is 764 m/s.

The results of the precision and accuracy of the German sniper rifle with open and optical sights are included in attachment #5. Here are the average results.


With open sights
With optical sights
Dispersion radii, cm
Deviation from point of aiming, cm
Dispersion radii, cm
Deviation from point of aiming, cm
100%
50%
Vertical
Horizontal
100%
50%
Vertical
Horizontal
100
9.5
3.6
+12.5
+0.7
9.4
3.9
+1.9
-20.2
300
28.3
15.0
-17.8
+14.0
33.3
15.3
-56.7
-48.0
600
47.3
25.7
-56.3
+47.7
61.0
25.3
-165.0
-101.7

3 comments:

  1. Are you sure that table isn't reversed? The optical sight seems to make the accuracy worse!

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    1. That is absolutely correct, I was surprised myself. I guess the scope just was not very good.

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    2. That or the scope was damaged a little before or during the capture. Indeed perhaps the rifle shot so poorly the German soldier threw it away in hope of getting issued a new rifle or perhaps he had already been given a better rifle.

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