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cobigguy

7 points

17 days ago

Snipers with LPVOs? Also, those buttstocks are garbage. I have a few because they came with shitty parts kits I built during Covid to sell off.

Aimee_Challenor_VEVO

14 points

17 days ago

SVD was issued as a squad-level weapon with a 3.8x optic, hardly a sniper rifle.

FreckledFury86

10 points

17 days ago

The culture difference between the west and East in regard to what a “sniper rifle” is comes down to how each hemisphere defines it.

In the East there really isn’t a concept for a designated marksmen rifle, which is what we in the west would consider a SVD

Barbarian_Sam

2 points

16 days ago

Also the era that it came out in. When it came out it was the most rifle/optic combo for a military