As far as I know for all countries involved, the sniper rifle was a special form of the bolt action rifle. Now were Stripper clips used for feeding the rifle or were they reloaded manually bullet by bullet?
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I don’t know the answer. However, in The White Sniper, Simo Hayha talks about carefully loading his rifle and making sure the bullets line up precisely.
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Depended on the rifle. Some rifles like the Kar.98k had scopes that went over top of the chamber, meaning that bullets had to be loaded one at a time. Others like the M1 Garand (there was a sniper variant) had the scope off-centred so you could use a clip. Magazine fed rifles like the Gewehr 43 you could use as normal.
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