Best Bang for Buck Sniper Rifle?

[chaz]

Meh, I jumped in feet first as a sniper role and am having a blast.

[airsoftjunky]

I originally got into sniping because I was tired of going through 10 or 15 dollars worth of bbs every game. (I had a long drive to the games) I bought a tsd L96, and let me tell you something for free, even a cheap wallmart gun would have been more accurate. However, after all the ugrades, (barrel,pdi hopup unit, hop up bucking, piston, piston head etc, etc,) it was shooting real nice with .30 bbs. I was addicted. However, I was also probably 500-600 dollars poorer. Then I bought the guile suit and good side arm... Using more bbs would have been a much cheaper route! When the weather is calm, I still do like to break out the sniper. Its really satisfying getting some of those hard earned kills, and it's load of fun having such a silent gun! Do not, however, ever think for even a second that because you have a sniper with a scope you will ever be at much if any advantage over your opponent. I fully agree with whats been said, start off with an aeg. You will be amazed how much fun it is to ninja around attacking and retreating too!

[FreelancerInc]

I am currently working on my own TM L96 sniper platform. i expect around 1900$ on the finished GUN. then another 500$ so to finish off a complete sniper loadout. I HOPE to be able to hit a 8" target at 250' 9/10 times...needless to say i have extremely HIGH hopes.

[Hectic]

Reasonable expectation tho outdoors there will be alot of variables so more like 7 of 10 times lol. Indoors no problem even a 12 in pie plate at 300feet 8of10

[thejimyyy]

for me l have choose a vsr-10 of tokyo maruis very good gun !

[Magnaroth]

Originally Posted by Hectic

Reasonable expectation tho outdoors there will be alot of variables so more like 7 of 10 times lol. Indoors no problem even a 12 in pie plate at 300feet 8of10

I've never heard of an indoor venue that will allow snipers, or even guns that shoot 375fps+.

Apparently you have, so that's cool, but I'm sure they're few and far between.

[ThunderCactus]

What he means is you could hit a plate at 300ft indoors where there's no wind.
Not actually playing indoors with a rifle.
Though I've done some sweet 200ft shots inside an old aircraft hangar, shooting from office to office lol

[Magnaroth]

Originally Posted by ThunderCactus

What he means is you could hit a plate at 300ft indoors where there's no wind.
Not actually playing indoors with a rifle.
Though I've done some sweet 200ft shots inside an old aircraft hangar, shooting from office to office lol

Oh man. An aircraft hanger would be a sick venue! Kindof morbid, but I bet the Millard aircraft hangar is up for sale sometime soon.

[ThunderCactus]

we were at the one in CFB rivers, got to play on the whole base. 2 H-barracks (one's closed for biohazard), steam plant with all the boilers gone, water treatment plant, huge field, was great to play on

[JerryMcGoulBerry]

A bolt action springer is NOT a good starter gun.

[AirsoftChewy]

get what you want to get - but be sure to get quality safety gear first and foremost. full seal goggles, quality boots, gloves and knee pads.

After that - the most important thing is to play fair and have a pile of fun.

[Acid44]

From what I've read/researched/seen, it doesn't matter all that much what sniper you get, as long as there are a lot of upgrade parts available for it. I would just make sure it's TM compatible, and get the cheapest you can, so you can put the rest of the budget toward upgrades.

If it were me, I'd just grab the cheapest VSR-10 or variant I could find, then get a 4x20 scope from aliexpress (they have them for like $7, but you'd need to get/make new mounts). With a $300 budget that should leave a reasonable amount for cheaper upgrade parts

[Curo]

Originally Posted by Acid44

From what I've read/researched/seen, it doesn't matter all that much what sniper you get, as long as there are a lot of upgrade parts available for it. I would just make sure it's TM compatible, and get the cheapest you can, so you can put the rest of the budget toward upgrades.

If it were me, I'd just grab the cheapest VSR-10 or variant I could find, then get a 4x20 scope from aliexpress (they have them for like $7, but you'd need to get/make new mounts). With a $300 budget that should leave a reasonable amount for cheaper upgrade parts

Problem is cheap rifles have bad tolerances and some upgrades won't fit and ones that do may not work well.

[Hectic]

And also due to bad tolerences even if all the parts fit fine there will be some shifting and such of parts. My first bolt action was a tsd sd700 (vsr10) i filled it with laylax parts. Yes it was a good rifle but the tm i have the parts in now is more consistant due to tighter fitting of everything barrel to reciver reciver to stock mostly. No creaking or shifting of any kind. Went from hiting same target 5 of 10 to 8 of 10 times. Big deal when you often only have one chance to take the shot.

As for scope. Dont buy a 7 doller scope lmao. The scope that came with my tsd worked yes but had to be re zeroed at every game. Or every time i bumped the rifle. Pain in the ass. Spend 1 or 200 bucks on a good bushnell scope and 30 bucks on good scope rings.
Thing holds zero no mater what i do has a clear picture works good in low lighting ect.
3-9x50 or 3-9x40 is what youll want or even beter a 1.5-whatever. As 3 times is more the enough for airsoft ranges so having the 1.5 times option for faster targeting would be a plus. My next scope will start at 1.5 for sure just i got a good deal on the one i grabed.

[ccyg8774]

I used to want a sniper rifle as my first gun... Then I read.