Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "IMI "Galatz" - Galil DMR/Sniper in 7.62 NATO" video.

Henry-the-gun-whisperer is going to conclude that with a little bit of care, love and clairvoyance this gun IS in fact a 1.3 minute of angle gun despite no-one else being able to reproduce the result :P
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The heavy weight is a good thing for marksman purposes. It sucks from a tactical standpoint, but that's only a problem for people who're actually at war. The rest of us just hump it in the car and go to the range and enjoy being able to fire 500 rounds in a practice session and still have a functional shoulder the day after :P Also, a 4x scope for 1.5-2 minute of angle is, imho, plenty for everyone who isn't an army trained sniper. Sure, at every gun range you'll find the chubby guy in the cammo pants, who never did service, insisting that mounting the Hubble Telescope on a battered surplus rifle is the right thing to do... but... we try not to laugh :P
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@jankaas4504 Strictly speaking it's a designated marksman rifle and not a sniper rifle. Effective fire out to 700-800 meters is what you can realistically expect. 4x power is plenty for that.
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@jankaas4504 My remarks were in the context of this particular example being a semi-auto only version being auctioned to the general public. I'd personally like to own this rifle for range use, but I wouldn't want to carry it to battle. Because it is heavy AF and outdated by modern standards. It was fine at it's introduction in '89 though, but nothing special. The Swedish variant of the G3 with picotini rail would be a lot better rounded DMR for instance.
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