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plawolf
Lieutenant General
new sniper rifles:
What's with the super-long scope? It just looks like a screw-on pipe has been added to the front of the normal scope. What is the point in that? The only reason I could think of is that it would stop the lens from catching the light and giving away the position of the sniper. But surely some anti-glare treatment on the scope would be able to do the same job and not vender the front rail useless?
Quickie
Colonel
That may be a way of solving the glint problem. The other more obvious reason is that a bigger scope will also make for better clearity for the same magnification, which is a plus for longer range target.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Aye, but if you look at this picture.
You can see a fair way down the scope with no sign of any lenses in sight. You can also see the clear line on the scope right about where you would expect a normally proportioned scope to end. That combined makes me pretty confident that we are looking at a detachable screw-on attachment that does not have any optics in it.
Quickie
Colonel
Taking the mounting of the scope as the middle of a normally proportioned scope, it's still considered a large scope. The pipe extension without the lens in this case is about 5 inches long. For some reason they've decided to use a hood extension for the scope probably in combination with a more sparing chemical treatment of the lens. Too much of antiglare lens treatment could end up filtering out too much light.
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