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The Army has a few thousand M24 Sniper Weapon Systems that they're in the processes of reconfiguring into XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifles. This total conversion changes everything but the receiver, which Remington will replace for sale to us, the Americans. Bomber!
The M24 is a great sniper rifle platform, but given the vast distances the Army has found snipers taking shots from, they've concluded that they need something with longer legs. The Remington 700 receivers used in the M24s is fully capable of handling .300 Winchester Magnum, which offers about 50% more energy and has a 50% greater effective range than the 7.62 NATO cartridges they're shooting now, and it's good out to 1,200 meters. It does kick a little more.
Once you take off the barrel, the optic, the stock, the sling, the bipod, the bolt, the extractor, and all the trigger parts, you've got one pile with almost no XM2010 and another pile with a damn near complete M24, which Remington has gotten permission to reassemble and do with them what they will.
They'll be taking 2,000 of these capable (and pre-customized by the soldiers who carried them) sniper rifles andselling them on a first-come, first-serve basis, with priority given to military snipers, active and reserve duty military, retired military, and law enforcement, respectively.
Two thousand more will be raffled off, $5 gets you one ticket, $20 gets you five, and a benjamin gets you thirty tickets. All proceeds will go to the Fisher House Foundation, which provides comfort homes for wounded soldiers and their families, for free.