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Whereas back before 96 the only rifles getting made in Oz were fudd-shit like the Omark 44.
Single-shot, iron-sight, wood stock with top handguard, Fudd approved target-rifles. Because when the Army went from .303s to SLRs the SSAA target-fudds didn't want a semi-auto that did 4-5MoA, they wanted a single-shot that might maybe make 1-2MoA on a dry day.
And that was the 'best' we had.
Even ADF Snipers only had a wood-stocked Parker-Hale 82 with a fixed 6x scope that could maybe get a headshot at 600m in dry weather in good hands.
>Now, thanks to JohnneyH we actually have half a dozen companies making modern accurate useful guns.