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[quote=YINDUFFY,314702]The U.S M-24 sniper rifle is bolt action while the M-110 rifle is semi-automatic. Both are 7.62x51mm NATO caliber. You can tell by their designations that the M-24 is an older design. It is based on a commercial target rifle ( the Remington 700). The newer M-110 is based on the M-16 type action ( actually AR-10) and is very similar in function. The M-110 is made capable of attaching various sights and gizmos  like night sights, infrared etc.  Target shooters and snipers tend to be very conservative and they probably prefer to keep the old reliable guns and telescopic sights that they trained on years ago. It may take some time before the "new-fangled" M-110 proves itself.
    The U.S. forces in Irag and Afghanistan have encountered very few actual enemy snipers. The bad guys just point and spray with their AK-47s. Most have not had formal training in accurate shooting. 
     U.S. casualties are primarily from IEDs ( Improvised Explosive Devices) either in car bombs or roadside bombs. Gunshot wounds have traditionally been only responsible for a small percentage of fatalities in combat. 
     U.S. marksmen have been very good at singling out and killing bad guys who take pot shots at coalition troops.
   
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