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Answer for the clue "High-precision rifle user ", 6 letters:
sniper

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sharpshooter; one who shoots from a hidden place," 1824, agent noun from snipe (v.). The birds were considered a challenging target for an expert shooter:\n\nSnipe Shooting is a good trial of the gunner's skill, who often engages in this diversion, without ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sniper is a 1993 American action film starring Tom Berenger and Billy Zane as snipers on an assassination mission in Panama . It was shot in Queensland , Australia, and debuted at number two in the United States. It initiated the Sniper film series and ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position. 2 Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position. 3 One who shoots from a concealed position. 4 One who criticizes.

Usage examples of sniper.

Wiggins shrugged off his bergan and unzipped the SSG 69, the renowned Austrian-built bolt-action SAS sniper rifle, which in trained hands can achieve a shot-grouping of less than forty centimeters at a range of eight hundred meters.

Mosovich said, folding up the bipod on the sniper rifle and submerging it in the water.

Thus, his first battle had been like all the others, a blindsided slaughter in these hills, shredded by artillery that they could never reach and he and his fellow Kessentai pecked at by snipers that were impossible to distinguish through the mass of fire.

And on the Iceshelf I had been hurt three times -- twice cut from shrapnel after white mines had killed buddies, once lanced from a long-range sniper -- that final wound serious enough to bring in a priest who all but demanded that I accept the cruciform before it was too late.

John was a guerilla sniper, invisible even at ten yards in his camouflage blanket, a net sewn with strips of cloth in shades of ochre, gray, and brown.

Ivor had almost convinced her to step out of the jammer field, into the gun sights of the snipers waiting atop the hills.

When Colonel Raff arrived with six planeloads of troopers, and spotted the planes on the lakebed, the non-jumping Air Corps officer in overall command of the operation radioed him that they were taking sniper fire, and were threatened by enemy armor.

At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.

I said yes to everything he wanted in exchange for more hostages, while at the same time moving Hostage Rescue snipers and assault specialists into position, filling the stairwell with guns and men and working on rewiring the elevators.

Then he and Skoob took their blankets and went under the big armored hull to sleep, which gave them almost as much protection from the alert Deutsch snipers as staying inside the turret would have.

Even a few snipers and machine-guns upslope from the village could make field trenches untenable.

It was pretty much what the microphone had been picking up from the start: the inconsequential prattle of a couple in the privacy of their own apartment, as apposed to intelligence secrets, which SNIPER collected at the university or his government offices.

I pictured Messinger across the street with a bolt-action sniper rifle with a l0x scope trained so he could blow my head off the minute I stirred.

Bourne cursed again though the artillery was friendly, the guns trying to forestall Molt snipers by pulverizing a site to which they could easily teleport.

There was no practical way to prevent Molt snipers from firing into distant human arrays, then skipping back to safety.