The Chinese .50 BMG sniper rifle
Published: December 19th, 2007
The Chinese have two types of gas operated semi-automatic .50/12.7mm caliber rifles. Both only shoot at 2 MOA with standard ammunition.
This is enough for anti-material work but well below western sniper rifle standards. For comparison, the Barrett M82 is supposed to shoot sub MOA (less than 1 MOA).
It is available in either 12.7x108mm or .50BMG.
It comes in two versions.
The M99
and the bullpup M99B / M06
More info here.
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How many of you have actually shot the rifle in the field or at Norinco's facility outside of Beijing, to be able to comment on it been junk?
And sadly Chinese steel case 50BMG ammo leaves a little to be desired in the accuracy helping department...
With decent ammunition this rifle will shoot MOA all day long.........
That B model has an excessively long length of pull (stock length), that will knock accuracy off.