Investigators obtained clues including a palm print, a shoe impression and a high-powered hunting rifle found in a wooded area along the path the shooter fled. But they had yet to name a suspect or cite a motive in the killing.
Rem 700 is a good guess, my thought was Ruger American - it doesn’t match the current model of either perfectly but as you say a 20 or 30 year old model will often be different, and yes no piccatinny rail in that pic.
Based on the exit wound shown in the video I doubt it’s 30-06 to be honest - I think your guess of a .270, or maybe .243 would be my guess, particularly given how popular those two were 30 years ago for hunting. I guess could be .308 but as per other post in the thread the sort of damage I’d see on a pig or deer just doesn’t line up with what I’d expect a 30-06 to do and still light even for 308.
I myself have a … moderate amount of range time / time in the field, probably, by the standards of most actual hunters…
I’ve never actually shot a living creature, just like to go to the range occasionally to pop at targets, get that whole breathing zen thing going on.
But I do have a probably uncommon amount of gun related autism in terms of trying to accurately model and simulate and represent firearms in mods for video games and such, the engineering, the history of em, the wierd little nuances of shooting as a human experience that most video games dramatically oversimplify.
Anyway… yeah, glad you agree that is probably not an ‘older Mauser’, and I’m gonna go with you probably know better an estimate of the actual caliber, and yeah, could be a Ruger American from about 20 to 30 years ago too.
FYI the reddit thread seems to think it’s a mauser 98 in an aftermarket polymer stock. The potato quality photo makes it too hard for me to work it - dunno if they’ve found a better photo
The stock/grip housing is not Kar98k style, it has a bit of a pistol grip -ish form factor, like more modern, basic, out of the box US hunting rifles…
I guess that doesn’t disprove it could be a completely rehoused K98k, but it doesn’t prove it either…
And… the likelihood it is some kind of completely rehoused K98k is really low, in comparison to it just being the shooter’s dad’s Remington or Ruger or something like that.
Can you link me this?
Do they actually have some specifc, unique detail that would be an unfalseifiable indicator of it being a K98k?
This is the reddit gun community here, I am guessing they are mostly try hard wehraboos, you know, Nazi enthusiasts, very rational and clearheaded, unbiased thinkers.
They’re basing it on the tail end safety mechanism I think (I can’t see it well enough to be sure), although honestly I suspect they’re just taking the media report of mauser at face value and retrofitting what they see to that
Well said
Normally I would wink and make finger guns at you as a way of saying ‘hey thanks!’…
But that seems like a bad idea right now.
Lol, yeah I’m getting cautious how I word things to avoid misinterpretation all of a sudden too
I have updated my original comment with more of my best attempt at an analysis, now that there is apparently an image of the actual rifle.
Rem 700 is a good guess, my thought was Ruger American - it doesn’t match the current model of either perfectly but as you say a 20 or 30 year old model will often be different, and yes no piccatinny rail in that pic.
Based on the exit wound shown in the video I doubt it’s 30-06 to be honest - I think your guess of a .270, or maybe .243 would be my guess, particularly given how popular those two were 30 years ago for hunting. I guess could be .308 but as per other post in the thread the sort of damage I’d see on a pig or deer just doesn’t line up with what I’d expect a 30-06 to do and still light even for 308.
Appreciate the extra detail.
I myself have a … moderate amount of range time / time in the field, probably, by the standards of most actual hunters…
I’ve never actually shot a living creature, just like to go to the range occasionally to pop at targets, get that whole breathing zen thing going on.
But I do have a probably uncommon amount of gun related autism in terms of trying to accurately model and simulate and represent firearms in mods for video games and such, the engineering, the history of em, the wierd little nuances of shooting as a human experience that most video games dramatically oversimplify.
Anyway… yeah, glad you agree that is probably not an ‘older Mauser’, and I’m gonna go with you probably know better an estimate of the actual caliber, and yeah, could be a Ruger American from about 20 to 30 years ago too.
FYI the reddit thread seems to think it’s a mauser 98 in an aftermarket polymer stock. The potato quality photo makes it too hard for me to work it - dunno if they’ve found a better photo
… Wha?
Based on what?
The stock/grip housing is not Kar98k style, it has a bit of a pistol grip -ish form factor, like more modern, basic, out of the box US hunting rifles…
I guess that doesn’t disprove it could be a completely rehoused K98k, but it doesn’t prove it either…
And… the likelihood it is some kind of completely rehoused K98k is really low, in comparison to it just being the shooter’s dad’s Remington or Ruger or something like that.
Can you link me this?
Do they actually have some specifc, unique detail that would be an unfalseifiable indicator of it being a K98k?
This is the reddit gun community here, I am guessing they are mostly try hard wehraboos, you know, Nazi enthusiasts, very rational and clearheaded, unbiased thinkers.
… fuck.
Not the fash end of reddit I avoid that - this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/1nez6z9/the_rifle_aledgedlies/
They’re basing it on the tail end safety mechanism I think (I can’t see it well enough to be sure), although honestly I suspect they’re just taking the media report of mauser at face value and retrofitting what they see to that