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Soren
I'm not very interested in sniping but IIRC ordinary British infantry battalion had 5 snipers and they were handy in patrol, recon etc duties and also effective against enemy snipers and "snipers" (in latter I mean ordinary enemy die-hards which ordinary soldiers easily called snipers). It sounds strange that 1½ German armies didn't have a single sniper, even more when one thinks how Germans air-transported 5 Pioneer battalions to Stalingrad from Germany or at least from other army groups.
I care even less on "Hr. Major König" and have not seen the film Enemy at the Gates or whatever.
Still, where were German snipers? After all Stalingrad was the main show in autumn 42.
Juha
I did and I modified a bit my post in relation with that, you are too fast to reply
It is, I get confused with the Kar 98B.
This is a more proper scharfschutze emplacement and dress.
Scharfschützen, snipers weapons and tactics. - WW2inColor Talk
I loved the hour long Luftwaffe training film. Excellent. Only about halfway through though.
Like I said Charles the clothing varied with the inviroment and circumstances under which the Scharfschützen had to operate. The guy in the picture seems to be wearing a raincoat
I have loads of pictures if anyone is interested.
Hour and a half actually.
760 m/s is plenty fast Charles, and the effective range of the German round is a good deal longer than that of any Allied round (Watch tables below). The US marine sniper's std. sniping round is the 172gr M118 FMJ-BT (BC: .494) which has a MV of 730 m/s and is fired very accurately out to 900m. The 7.92mm 12.8 g sS projectile can be fired accurately at even longer ranges.
For excellent long range accuracy you need a heavy, stable and very low drag projectile (Streamlined), muzzle velocity is of less importance.
most projectiles incl. FMJ spitzers.
7.92mm 12.8 g (198 gr) sS Geschoss (FMJ-BT), BC = .584, MV = 760 m/s:
Max range
Ballistics / Trajectory
7.62mm 9.7 g (150 gr) M2 Ball (FMJ Spitzer), BC = .420, MV = 853 m/s:
Max range
Ballistics / Trajectory
How does one get a BC of 25% greater than a 220 gr - with a 198gr bullet?