by vulrath » Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:34 pm
If you're looking for something to plink cans with, then I'm sure it will be fine.
Any other use: Not in particular. It's not upgradeable at all beyond UTG's own kit, and that only applies to owners who have a pre-Gen 3 gun. Get either a UTG L96 or a JG BAR-10 if you're serious about sniping (please find out first - borrow a sniper rifle at a local game, try it out; otherwise, that's over $100 that could be better spent elsewhere). Also know that you will have about the same range as the other players' AEGs until you upgrade, and that gets expensive fast (between both of my sniper rifles and the amount I've spent on them, I could have built another high-performance gaming computer).
We normally tell people to set the sniper rifle down for about a year. This is so that you can get acclimated to the sport, and so that you will stay in longer (and because you'll learn more - military snipers go through the same boot camp everyone else does before they're even selected as a candidate for sniper school). A lot of people buy a sniper rifle, then play a single game with it completely stock, get home, trash the entire sport, decide that sniping sucks (or, more often, that airsoft sucks), and the next day the rifle is up in the For Sale section, and they're never heard from again. We don't want that.