More on M41b and it's follower
The M41 had a cheek pice too it. Something in leather, filled with fabric and horse hair. Somehing fitting shooters cheek in wood or cork and glued on works better. The system was phased ut from our Brigades in the mid 60s and enterd the storerooms of the Home Guard. In the earlie 80s we tryed to get the HG to use them as marksmen, but of course the glory of snipers and Gilledresses where much higher than the ability to stay cool and hit what you aim at.
We have a target with five minifieldtargets, 1/5 in size, on called Rosersberg and at 100m distance you can easy determin if you have a windbag or a marksman on the line. Fire 5 at prone and get 5 hits!
We soon found out that the only ones doing this on demand, was old snipers and active fieldshooters (200-900m in the green).
So we turned page and did get the GenQM to fix us some SSGs. After a few years result was very much the like as with the old M41s.
At that time the intrest was rose for a real 1200 m rifle, after years of trial and test we got the PSG90, AI AM, with a Hensholdt 10x42 with NL.
Still the diffrence lies mostly in the shooter. But flying time is a big factor since in real life, when the rubber hits the gravel, you can't read wind out there, and practice rounds with tracers only gets your target under cover.
As you might understand we where a small unit in the middle of it.
As for the M41 sniper round in 6,5x55 the demand was that it should be abel to a 90 mm circle at 300m from a very good barrel, 10 rounds group. Now very few marksmen can hold that good in the shaft. But the start is there.
The need to hit specific targets will always be there. If you have Qs I will try to get an A.