What is the best sniper rifle you can get for around 1000?

Answer 1

Most of your sniping rifles are target rifles applied for the purpose of police sharpshooters. The rifles used by the US Military are actually assembled by the US military, and aren't made available for commercial sales. For $1000, you could work over a Remington 700 (the basis of the M40 and M24 sniper rifles) pretty nicely, and you could do the same with a Winchester Model 70 (Carlos Hathcock used a Winchester Model 70 in Vietnam).

If you want something which was made as a military sniping rifle, it would depend on whether you wanted a true sniper rifle, or a designated marksman rifle. For the former, you can find the Mosin-Nagant 91/30 PU well within that price range, and, for the latter, you can find 922r compliant kit builds from Romanian PSL parts kits and Yugoslav M76 parts kits within that price range.

Answer 2

The answer to this question very very complicated. There are many factors including weight, range, magazine capacity, reliabilityand system of firing. Probably themost powerful sniper rifle in the world is theBarretM82 semi-automatic anti material rifle. Problem about the M82? The weight of the M82 is30 pounds. Smaller rifles like the Russian Dragunov SVD are less powerful, but weigh less. There is no real answer to question unless you go thru every single sniper rifle in the history of firearms. My opinion is the SMLE, or the Short Magazine Lee Enfield MkI or MkIII. The SMLE is a century old bolt-action rifle introduce in 1907 and is still in combat to this day. The SMLE is the picture of a perfect marksman rifle. Its reliable like the AK47. It always combat ready. The SMLE can probably take on even the newest military firearms.

-QWar