Hunting Rifle

NOTE: This article is about the Hunting Rifle in ArmA: CWA. For its counterpart featured in ArmA 3's CSLA Iron Curtain Creator DLC, see Hunting Rifle (CSLA).

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Civilian hunting rifle with optics. Very strong but a bit slow.

Weapon Description^[1]

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The Hunting Rifle is a 7.62 mm sniper rifle used by the EFA and their Nogovan Partisan predecessors in ArmA: Cold War Assault.

Overview[]

The Hunting Rifle is a bolt-action sniper rifle with a rotating bolt that is chambered to fire the 7.62×51 mm NATO round.

It loads from 6-round internal magazines^{[CfgWp 4]}, and can attain fire rate of only 30 rounds per minute^{[CfgWp 5]}^{[Formula 1]} with a muzzle velocity of 900 m/s.^{[CfgWp 6]} The Hunting Rifle is always fitted with a 5x riflescope.^{[CfgWp 7]}^{[CfgWp 8]}

Primarily wielded by guerilla snipers, the Hunting Rifle is essentially a commercial civilian hunting weapon converted into a sniper rifle. It has an effective range of between 500-600 metres, making it a fairly decent sniper weapon in spite of its intended purpose.

However, because it uses a bolt-action operation the Hunting Rifle has an extremely low rate of fire.^{[Formula 1]} Combined with its already small magazine capacity^{[CfgWp 1]}, this makes the Hunting Rifle an objectively inferior weapon compared to mil-spec sniper rifles like the U.S. M21 or Soviet SVD in every aspect. Even though its 7.62 mm ammunition technically has better stopping power than the M21/SVD^{[CfgAm 1]}, its low ROF and magazine capacity negate this advantage.

Optics[]

The Hunting Rifle does not have ironsights and only allows the user to aim through its 5x zoom scope.^{[CfgWp 7]}^{[CfgWp 8]}

Recoil curves[]

 
{
    title: {
        text: 'sniperSingle'
    },
    tooltip: {
        trigger: 'axis',
        axisPointer: {
            type: 'cross',
            label: {
                backgroundColor: '#824100'
            }
        }
    },
    legend: {
        data: ['Time Taken', 'Kickback', 'Kick Up']
    },
    toolbox: {
        feature: {
            saveAsImage: {}
        }
    },
    grid: {
        left: '3%',
        right: '4%',
        bottom: '3%',
        containLabel: true
    },
    xAxis: [
        {
            name: 'Duration',
            nameLocation: 'middle',
            type: 'category',
            boundaryGap: false,
            data: ['0', '0.01', '0.02', '0.03']
        }
    ],
    yAxis: [
        {
            name: 'Amplitude',
            nameLocation: 'end',
            type: 'value'
        }
    ],
    series: [
        {
            name: 'Time Taken',
            type: 'line',
            stack: 'Total',
            label: {
                show: true,
                position: 'top'
            },
            areaStyle: {},
            emphasis: {
                focus: 'series'
            },
            data: [0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2],
            smooth: true
        },
        {
            name: 'Kickback',
            type: 'line',
            stack: 'Total',
            label: {
                show: true,
                position: 'top'
            },
            areaStyle: {},
            emphasis: {
                focus: 'series'
            },
            data: [0, 0.01, 0.008, 0],
            smooth: true
        },
        {
            name: 'Kick Up',
            type: 'line',
            stack: 'Total',
            label: {
                show: true,
                position: 'top'
            },
            areaStyle: {},
            emphasis: {
                focus: 'series'
            },
            data: [0, 0.02, 0.018, 0],
            smooth: true
        }
    ]
}

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Ammunition[]

Ammo parameter	7.62 mm NATO (Ball)
Base damage value	11^{[CfgAm 1]}
Spill damage value	1^{[CfgAm 2]}
Muzzle velocity (m/s)	900^{[CfgWp 6]}

The Hunting Rifle only supports one type of "magazine".^{[CfgWp 4]} Each magazine will require at least one^{[CfgWp 9]} free inventory slot to carry:

Hunting Rifle Mag.[]

Standard 6-round internal magazine loaded with 7.62 mm ball ammunition.^{[CfgWp 10]}

Its bullets have a spill radius of 0.05 metres upon impact.^{[CfgAm 3]}

Trivia[]

Cold War Assault's Hunting Rifle is directly based on the real-world "Model 700" rifle designed by the U.S-based Remington Arms Company, LLC of Madison, North Carolina.
- However, the in-game Hunting Rifle's bolt handle is oddly located facing the left side of the weapon instead.
The Hunting Rifle was not actually included as part of the default set of weapons that could be used in Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (the initial release name of Cold War Assault) and was only added with the Resistance expansion pack^[2] (specifically in Patch 1.85^[1]).

Gallery[]

Config/script references[]

CfgAmmo[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 CfgAmmo >> HuntingRifle >> hit
↑ CfgAmmo >> HuntingRifle >> indirectHit
↑ CfgAmmo >> HuntingRifle >> indirectHitRange

CfgWeapons[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> count
↑ CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> dispersion
↑ CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> recoil
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> magazines[] >> {"HuntingRifleMag"}
↑ CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> reloadTime
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> initSpeed
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> opticsZoomMin
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> opticsZoomMax
↑ CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> magazineType >> "1 * 256"
↑ CfgWeapons >> HuntingRifle >> ammo >> "HuntingRifle"

Formulae[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 60 / reloadTime = 60 / 2

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 The Codemasters Software Company Limited 2002, Codemasters - downloads, Codemasters, viewed 5 March 2025, <http://web.archive.org/web/20021206162110/http://www.codemasters.com/downloads/displayfiles.php?showdetails=4487>. (archived link)
↑ Mcnicoll, J et al. 2008, Operation Flashpoint: List of weapons, Bohemia Interactive Community Wiki, viewed 26 November 2023, <https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Operation_Flashpoint:_List_of_weapons>.

External links[]

Wikipedia: Remington Model 700

Weapons of ArmA: Cold War Assault
Handguns	92F 9 mm • CZ-75 9 mm • Glock 17 9 mm • S&W .357 • Tokarev TT-33 7.62 mm
Submachine guns	Ingram .45 • MP5SD3 9 mm • PP-19 Bizon 9 mm • Sa-61 Scorpion 7.65 mm • UZI 9 mm
Shotguns	Kozlice
Carbines	AK-74 SU 5.45 mm • XM-177E2 5.56 mm (XM-177S)
Assault rifles	AK-47 7.62 mm (AK-47 GL, AK-47 CZ) • AK-74 5.45 mm (AK-74 GL) • AUG A1 5.56 mm • FN-FAL 7.62 mm • G3A4 7.62 mm • G36 5.56 mm • M16A2 5.56 mm (M16A2 GL)
Sniper rifles	Hunting Rifle 7.62 mm • M21 7.62 mm • SVD 7.62 mm
Machineguns	M60 7.62 mm • PK 7.62 mm
Grenade launchers	6G30 • MM-1
Launchers	9K32 Strela-2 • AT-4 Spigot • Carl Gustav M2 • FIM-92 Stinger • M72 LAW • RPG-75NH
Static	M2
(Parenthesis) denote variants.

FIA - Armoury (ArmA: Cold War Assault)
Handguns	92F 9 mm* • CZ-75 9 mm* • Tokarev TT-33 7.62 mm*
Submachine guns	Ingram .45* • UZI 9 mm*
Shotguns	Kozlice*
Assault rifles	AK-47 7.62 mm* (AK-47 GL, AK-47 CZ) • AK-74 5.45 mm • AUG A1 5.56 mm* • FN-FAL 7.62 mm • G3A4 7.62 mm
Sniper rifles	Hunting Rifle 7.62 mm • SVD 7.62 mm*
Machineguns	PK 7.62 mm*
Launchers	9K32 Strela-2* • M72 LAW* • RPG-75NH*
(Parenthesis) denote variants. * primarily used by the Nogovan Partisans in the Resistance campaign