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Originally Posted by Jayhad
sniping sucks, especially if you are new. Think, do you want to sit in one spot all day hoping for one shot, only to be gunned down in a hail of bbs from stock AEGs.
Why is it every noob wants to be a sniper? sniper rifles offer a very marginal range advantage if it is highly upgraded...
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Actually being an airsoft sniper doesn't mean taking a nap in the middle of the woods wearing a burlap blankie. How noobs think this is the way is being me. Stalking is the key, and getting into an area of opportunity beneficial to your team is the main job of the sniper in airsoft. Objective outlined, sniper infiltrates, radios intel to the rest of the team so they can plan the best way to hit it. If the plan is to attack and take a base, the sniper can get within shooting range undetected, radio positions, strengths and weaknesses, then soften the area up with fire to play psychological warfare with the defenders while the rest of the team moves in. Doesn't really sound like camping out in one spot all day, eh? Only the ignorant do that, and quickly give up on sniping.
I don't really consider an extra 100-150ft distance over AEGs to be only "a marginal range advantage", BTW. Besides, spring and gas powered sniper rifles are dead quiet (unlike AEGs) and even if yo uare shooting at guys 100-140ft away, yes, AEG distance, they can't always detect or sort out the location of the sniper unless they 'probe by fire'. And if you miss your target and they are aware a sniper is in the area and has tarken a shot at them, it tends to unsettle them pretty bad. I recall being told at one point by the field owner when I was flinging a shot with my M24 every 10 mins from different directions at guys in a base for about a half an hour, then went off elsewhere to save some teammates butts (after getting a radio call for help), that I had the guys in the base pinned down and cautious for a good hour AFTER I left. That in itself is the fun part!!!! Psych warfare is much more fun than just shooting people.
