![]() It has 10 round magazines as standard (easier to use when lying prone) but also accepts 20-round Val magazines. A true silenced sniper rifle, although it also has automatic fire provision, oddly. Notes: This is what is actually being referred to with the name 'Val Silent Sniper'. ![]() Bobby Greer supposedly handloads his shells for extra power, which Reacher doesn't trust to be accurate but uses the enormous muzzleflash to help him see. Notes: A classic hunting rifle with a lever-action mechanism. As mentioned above with the MP5SD, the USSS as a purely defensive protection detail have little actual use for an integrally silenced rifle, and if they did, there's virtually zero chance they would contract a tiny European company to make rifles for them anyway when they have so many domestic gun and silencer makers to choose from, not to mention any competent gunsmith could simply modify any standard rifle to accept a permanently mounted silencer. For a time I suspected this may have been dodgy research where Child took the name to be for the whole rifle when actually it was just the silencer, but I eventually discovered after rereading and looking using the full name of the firm to search that Vaime was a real but tiny Finnish firm, formally named Oy Vaimennin Metalli Ab, that mostly made silencers but apparently also made a rifle based on the Tikka 55 Sporter - until going out of business in the late '80s. Notes: This, if it exists, is a very obscure gun virtually all of the references I found on the internet are to Reacher or unverifiable pics of generic silenced rifles. Not sure why he didn't jab with the end of the stock instead, but.Ĭalibre/capacity: 7.62x51mm x10 (subsonic) Reacher uses it as a club and smashes the sight on someones head, rendering it largely useless, then ditches it for an MP5K. Notes: A modern, largely plastic assault rifle. ![]() Whichever they mean, in Gone Tomorrow, Reacher says he saw one once in the mid '90s, but he saw one in Beck/Quinn's warehouse much more recently (2003 if the date of publication is taken as the present day).Ĭalibre/capacity: 5.56x45mm x30 rounds (+1) They mean the VSS Vintorez (see below), which was developed alongside the Val. The AS Val is an assault rifle, not a sniping rifle. Notes: In both Persuader and Gone Tomorrow this is referred to as the "Val Silent Sniper", which is wrong. It's referred to incorrectly as an AKSU74. This is the standard compact carbine of the Russian military and is in use with special forces and vehicle crew. This is the standard rifle of the Russian military, along with many ex-soviet nations (or locally-made versions).
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