Just out of curiosity, how effective is the MK12 platform in a combat environment? What range is considered its maximum effective range?
Thanks
Just out of curiosity, how effective is the MK12 platform in a combat environment? What range is considered its maximum effective range?
Thanks
There have been reported kills out near 1000 yards. Also I have heard, no way of confirming though, that it's a favorite of SOF units.
C co 1/30th Infantry Regiment
3rd Brigade 3rd Infantry Division
2002-2006
OIF 1 and 3
IraqGunz:
No dude is going to get shot in the chest at 300 yards and look down and say "What is that, a 3 MOA group?"
I shot one built by High Caliber Sales earlier this year. It was a tack driver at 500 yards. I'm an average shooter but that rifle made me look good. Ammo used was off the shelf MK262, not sure of the manufacturer. Not sure on the exact optic model either as the gun was rattle canned, but it was some sort of Nightforce.
I really want one of my own. Sorry it's not a professional review, but after running a few boxes of ammo through one I was impressed with what it could do.
Very capable out to 800 but 1K is a hell of a lot more challenging & MK262 is limping at that distance. I wouldn't want to catch one but it's definitely not the steel smack that's delivered at 800. I've had my Mod1 since 06 & it still impresses the hell out of me everytime I shoot it (which is often). FWIW, I prefer the lighter weight & shorter OAL of the ModH.
it has a 1/7 18" barrel so its maximum effectiveness will be as far as the 77gr smk 77gr Nosler 73gr berger, 75gr bthp..etc can go. The 18" barrel doesn't lose too much in velocity to the 20".
It has a match grade douglas barrel so its accuracy should be a little better than the standard 20" A2 profile barrel...but FN CHF barrels are super amazing and Id just build a gov profile FN 18"er rather than the MK12...less expensive, lighter and probably just as accurate
I have wondered as long as I have looked at MK12's, why did they leave the gas block exposed and not use a longer rail? I haven't dedicated much time to finding this answer for myself, I must admit.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. --Theodore Roosevelt--
Those are cool pictures sinister. Thanks for posting them.
As ridiculous as it sounds, where we were the most valuable part of the Mk12 was the optic on it - having a decent glass with some reach without having to rely on binos was great, the next most useful part was the can (deal with big-ass feral dogs without alerting every talifag for miles).
The smooth shooting and quiet nature of shooting of that system sold me on having suppressors on basically any semi-precision rifle, not to mention that spending some coin on glass really enhances the effective range when fed solid ammunition. I really wish I could have carried one in a-stan (our unit just didn't have any), since the times I was outside the wire I wound up being most useful as overwatch (since we were working I&W/comms, the math nerd with 20/8 eyesight who shoots fairly high expert is probably the guy you want on the Mk12).
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The first point mirrors the AAR that I wrote for 24 MEU when we got them in AFG, the TB know the limits of the observations capability with the RCO, MGO and SDO and hang out in the shadows just beyond where you can PID them while the optics on the Mk11s and Mk12s could still PID them and engage.
The second point agree that the suppressor was a useful tool because it confused them at where they where being shot at from and at distance allowed 2-3 shots sometimes before they re-acted. But I remember when my MiTT first got suppressors in Iraq and one of my team member tried to shoot a dog thinking it would be like in the movies and it was pretty loud.
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