Russian Kalashnikov, with a Harris bipod, a surefire (or a damn close copy of a M600), a Tasco/crappy scope. Wonder how many parts were outsourced, or even if the rifle itself isn't an imported stock on a foreign bbl.

Well, Steyr's barrel-making technology has always been chic.

Seriously, though, how much of that was outsourced?

Looking on another website it's more of a short stroke Valmet clone with the whole FAB Defense catalog thrown at it. Gross

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
Is that a flashlight on a long distance rifle?

Some of the discussion about the rifle describes it as a “designated marksman’s” weapon, and at first blush that would be my impression of such a gun: Intended for rapid fire (if necessary) at “intermediate” distances (however that might be defined). It would be capable of hits on human targets out to 600-700 yards, but not for pinpoint accuracy at longer ranges. And although no one would be using a flashlight to illuminate targets at such distances, one advantage of the semiautomatic DM rifle is that it can also serve adequately, if not ideally, as a close combat weapon.

In one account I read just recently, a U.S. armed forces supervisor made that exact point by saying that shooters armed with such weapons could participate on entry teams and if ultra long range shooting wasn’t necessary, a less precise autoloading rifle was preferable to a true sniper weapon. If someone armed with that rifle might be called upon for such a role, then a weapon mounted light would make perfect sense. My rifles that I envision might be used in such situations have lights. A good SureFire or comparable light can be used to effectively illuminate some targets to 100 yards and beyond, not to mention across a room.

I’m also not surprised by the fact that the guy in the background wasn’t wearing hearing protection when a suppressed rifle was fired. I wear it myself when shooting a suppressed 308 rifle, and presumably Putin was smart enough to do so as well, but Russians in particular seem to be very conscious of their tough guy images and the other man might have been trying to prove that.