muzzle velocity<\/a> as a contributing factor to damage. That was easy, or so I thought. As I was testing various rifles in numerous configurations trying to determine the “Sweet spot” of damage (and getting what seemed to be odd results) I thought.. Maybe muzzle velocity does impact it?<\/p>\n\n\n\nWell, no, it doesn’t. I slapped on some match rounds on a rifle configuration I was questioning, and got the same results I’d get without them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was testing targets at ~200m, ~365m, and ~415m. My goal was to determine what damage was needed to take out a target with a limb shot at Sniper Elite (hard) difficulty – limb shots are the lowest-damage locations to hit, so knowing which rifles will guarantee a kill anywhere on the body is going to be important once I start putting together rifle reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, I had a configuration of a Kar98 that was giving me fits. At 155 damage it’d kill the target at 200m, but at around 300 or so it started to not unless it was a body\/head shot. 159 damage? No problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I switched to the m.1903. This rifle, at 152 damage, is a guaranteed kill at all tested ranges on any part of the body as far as my testing shows. That’s interesting; it has less damage than the Kar98 config that was failing. What was the “X” factor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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