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I'm not sure how the M107 differs from the M82A3 the USMC uses. One of our teams hit a savage at 980yds with Mk211 and terminal effects were quite satisfactory IOW it blew the arm from his shoulder, which held on by flesh and sinews, guy went a short distance and piled up to bleed out. The sniper reported that he was surprised by the flash when it hit the guy, we were expecting that the ammo wouldn't function on something as "soft" as a human target. IME, the M82A3 is a 2-3MOA rifle using Mk211. That's 6 different rifles and maybe 4000rds fired. During our pre-OIF workup, the guns would hold "minute of jeep tire" at 960-1020 yds(we had a row of jeep hard targets at an oblique). The same engagement mentioned above had the Barret put two-three rds of Mk211 into the fuel tank of a bongo truck, which didn't do anything other than allow fuel to leak from the tank. It was gasoline vice diesel. Some of the other sniper plts had McMillans and even Cheytac's, but I don't know how much use those actually received and I have no post deployment feedback from them. The McMillan is a much better LR people shooter but using a match load is the only way to get any real increase in range. I'm not sure what could be gained from a match prepped load using a Raufoss API projectile. might be worth looking into. S/F....Ken M
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