Russia's Super Rifle is Gonna Getcha! From a Mile and a Half

In Russia private armorers who do not need millions of taxpayer rubles to design and build quality, efficient and highly accurate systems are few and far between.

The rifles built by a small private company led by Vladislav Lobaev, a well-known  armorer and long-range shooter, who gradually evolved into a rifle gunsmith and then into full-scale manufacturer of custom precision rifles, are the most unusual weapons that have recently emerged in Russia.

The modern precision sniper rifles built by the Kaluga-based Lobaev Arms Company look, feel and shoot just like a top-notch weapon should.

Exceptional build quality and attention to detail – that’s the impression one inevitably gets when taking hold of one of their latest units – the DXL-2 rifle.

Professionals all agree that the aluminum-frame Lobaev rifle is one of the very best money can buy.

It is chambered for a 7,62х51mm round, which is a very stable cartridge for shooting at targets over 1,000 meters away.

The DXL-2’s is designed to keep the recoil, even from large-caliber rounds, at a minimum. Indeed, shooting with the DXL-2 feels like firing a 5mm rifle!

The finest western sniper rifles of the same class, including the much-trumpeted Steyr SSG 08 rifle, pale in comparison with Lobaev’s DXL-2.

A new, heavier version of the DXL-2 is now in the pipeline. 

Looking more like a small howitzer, it would knock out a dinosaur with its.408 CheyTac round that was earlier used, albeit by a different rifle, to set a long-range world record of 3,440 meters.