The Blaser R93 Tactical is a German sniper rifle, used heavily by the German and Dutch police forces. It is manufactured by Blaser, a subsidiary of the SwissSIGARMS company. It is a bolt-actionsniper rifle, chambered for 7.62mm NATO, .300 Win Magnum and .338 Lapua. It is designed to send high weight/length projectiles (factory match) into very small groups without difficulty (sub .3 MOA). SIGARMS is the US representative of Swiss manufacturing firm Swiss Arms AG, which was split off of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) in 2000. ... Half opened bolt on a Winchester Model 70. ... The M40, United States Marine Corps standard-issue sniper rifle Sniper rifle is a term most frequently applied to rifles used by military or law enforcement to ensure accurate placement of shots at greater ranges than other small arms. ... NATO 7. ... Winchester Magnum refers to a family of cartridges developed by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company [1], one of the oldest firearms manufacturers in the United States, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, all based on the same basic cartridge case. ... The . ...
The R-93 Tactical (also known as the R-93 LRS-2) has a number of unusual features: the receiver, stock, and forestock are made of an almost solid piece of composite material; the barrel is of chrome-moly steel, cold-forged, and impregnated with deep-penetrating nitrogen gas to retard rusting.
The ammunition feed for the R-93 Tactical positions the rounds directly in line with chamber, which increases reliability and means that the rifle does not need a feed ramp.
The R-93 Tactical is based on two earlier designs: The R-93 UIT Standard, a match rifle with a single-shot action, and the R-93 CISM, a bolt-action match rifle.