Re: The Remington 710 Sniper Rifle....
OK,OK, I know there's a ludicris element here.
But back in the way back, the origial 'sniper rifles' ala Carlos, etc., were Hunting rifles, .30-'06, from the PX, with a Redfield scope, same source.
.270; clearly not a popular tactical chambering, but Col Boddington keeps demionstrating that when it comes to cancelling hearbeats, albeit of critter-kind, it's quiet adequate.
Rem710. The El Cheapo Grande of hunting rifles. Yet for the task, again, adequate and efficient. Not utterly reliable, not rockhard durable, but if all I was doing with my arsenal was harvesting a deer or two annually, and suddenly I was called upon to defend family and turf, and it was all I had, I'd not really feel all that naked and undergunned.
Sniper rifle, of course not.
Greg