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I have been playing this game for the past few weeks and I love it. I have 2 squads now and one of them is a 3 man sniper team. At this point in the game I have some Bolt-Action rifles and Semi-Auto rifles, more specifically an M21, an SVD, SVDS, M24, M40A1, and the SV-98 among others, but those are what I am switching in between. I have a special Save made with all of these rifles set up and have done some tests. It would seem that Semi-Auto Sniper rifles ( with a Sniper or PSO-3 scope and Bipod attached ) are a better choice hands down over a bolt-action rifle in this game. I did a "Headshot" test with the SV-98 and the Dragunov ( I like russian weapons ) and fired 5 times at the heads of enemies on one map 3 seperate times. The bolt-action rifle did about 8-10 points of damage more per shot and killed the enemy with 1 shot to the head a little more than the semi-auto, BUT! with a semi-auto rifle, like the Dragunov or M21, you can shoot someone in the head and quickly follow up with a chest shot, because you have enough AP left. With a bolt action rifle you must reserve 7 AP just to rechamber a new round. The bolt action rifles can only reach a little bit farther than the semi auto rifles too. Perhaps I am missing something, because in general for video games I prefer bolt action rifles ( Battlefield BC 2 and what not), but semi-auto rifles seem to be king in this game. Anyone have any tips for bolt action rifles?
With 1.13 I'd say that the bolt-actions are the better guns when in the hands of a true sniper, with the sniper trait: bolt action load time is reduced and they'll benefit a tiny little bit more from the damage bonuses when using aim clicks.

Then again, I modified the 4 XM-8 guns so that they would each be my ideal SMG (xm8 carbine) assault rifle (xm8 baseline), LMG (xm8 automatic) and sniper (xm8 sharpshooter).
So I'm not exactly sure which guns is best.
While not the best sniper rifle, I'd say the VSS Vintorez is a pretty great all-rounder.
The average engagement in the game is well-within the effective range for it, it fires the beefy SP-6 round, is fully silenced, has a good scope, good accuracy and if your sniper finds himself engaged up-close (something that should never happen, but you never know) it can be fired full-auto like an SMG.
Oh, and it's a russian gun. :p
it depends a lot what jagged alliance are you playin, eventual tweaks to the ini and the initial choice of "tons of weapons" cause some could not be available, too expencive or just not interesting with some specific ini configs.
Also last 1.13 builds have different traits from the original ja2 for mercs.

Personally i prefer the HK MSG90A1 or PSG1 as general mid range sniper rifle, cause they are semi auto so they are versatile, while for specialists i prefer a pure sniper one, like the AWM or the DSR1 which are usually one shot one kill if in the hands of mercs like reaper or scope.
I use to config the ini for reduced CTH on headshots so only specialists can really have easy shots, its personal taste.
Actually in my last plays anyway i tend to use only 1 pure sniper per squad and prefer assault rifles or DMR rifles in genearl cause i find playing full sniper a bit less fun.