Favourite Battle-Rifle?

FAL

M-14

I admit that I am biased, as it was my marching rifle in military college, but man this rifle was such a nicely put together package of stopping power, rate of fire, and ruggedness.

People hate on it for some reason but every serviceman who actually uses it out in the field has nothing but good things to say about it

Oldy but a goody.

The SMLE is so fucking aesthetic.

I love that combined front sight and bayonet lug that covers the end of the barrel. So many guns from the time have an ugly little stub of barrel sticking out from the wooden stock that ruins the lines, but the SMLE is pure and smooth.

>can't be accurized
>open action

Debate me.

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God tier gun right here
Spent 100$ for one made in 1942 and the only problem I've had is a small crack in the original stock that I'm pretty sure was there when I bought it

Beautiful

Based

Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail

G3.

Shot one. Was fun. Unftortunately super rare in my country.

Fusil Automatique Léger

do modern rifles made to look nice count? if so pic related
sexy

FAL

This desu

is the cold war era this popular on Veeky Forums or is it just because of the vast advancements in weapons technology at the time?

Its mostly for aethetics but I personally like the 7.62 delivered through the FN FAL more than any AK variant.

Plus its sexy as fuck

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they're weapons that manage to stand the test of time, and are still used by many militaries today. As for having any real historical relevance, I'd say 1895 US-made Mosin Nagant (lever-action full-power rifle). It shows a mix of frontier US and Imperial Russia that I thing is really neat

it also officially has the shittiest stock of any rifle I've ever fired

The term "battle rifle" usually refers to semi and full automatic rifles chambered in full powered cartridges like 7.62 NATO. Those were predominantly used for standard issue during the Cold War period; those people are just following the subject of the thread.

>1895 US-made Mosin Nagant
You mean the 1895 Winchester. Wichester made some for the Russian government for WWI. The Mosin Nagant is a bolt-action rifle.

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>people posting muskets, bolt action rifles, and assault rifles in a battle rifle thread
OP, you shoulda just said historical firearms in general.

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The thread says "battle rifle."

Most of them were created in the cold war.

Slavshit is shit

K98 is better in all regards

Current service rifle with the British army
GP A2, semi auto of course, just fun to fire and cleans nicely, iron not telescopic sight as it's cheating otherwise, nice material and great grip.

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Why bother with rifles when you can use swords and polearms?

The G43 is one of the worst rifles ever made. The thing will literally blow up in your fucking face.

youtube.com/watch?v=K7TCFkdFr6g

delete this modernity and industry is evil fuck you delete gunpowder

The G43 was junk

Where did you get this video from? Is it a youtube channel? It looks like gun porn

It's in my animu and I like it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_98

it's from the Vickers Tactical channel

Thanks