Walther WA2000: The Ultimate German Sniper Rifle
Walther WA2000: The Ultimate German Sniper Rifle
The Walther WA-2000 has a reputation of being the ultimate German sniper rifle, with no expense spared in its design and construction. Designed in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, the WA2000 was intended to be a police sniper rifle, not a military arm. It is a bullpup layout and semiautomatic action, chambered for either 7.62mm NATO or .300 Winchester Magnum. Manufactured until 1988, less than 200 were made in total, as its incredible cost ($9000 list price in 1988) prevented it from being adopted by anyone outside the West German police.
We will discuss the history of the gun, and the various elements of its design. Is it really the best sniper rifle ever? Well…it is a really magnificent gun, but exhibits a number of antiquated features by today’s standards – like not having a free floated barrel. We will disassemble it (no simple task!) and then take it out to the range.
Also, make sure to check out the InRange video where we put the WA2000 to the test against an SVD Dragunov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrVdNqfDfA
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I have many kills with this gun mw2 good ol days
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Yes I’m here because of 47
Man this thing is Disgusting
From phantom forces 🙂
Fun fact the price would be equivalent today to about $1,560/pound at MSRP but at auction prices more like $5,000
"Happy tf2 sniper sounds"
This gun reminds me of some guy’s attempt at a futuristic gun that is entirely impractical.
Ahh Nazran town
0:07 He’s like.. Ngh..! Fuck off shell!
Classic German over-engineering, like the small-arms equivalent of the Tiger II
I love how they used a whole tree for furniture. Must help it float in floods.
Sir you kept repeating "Earliest generation of sniper rifles.. " for this rifle.. With all due respect what are you talking about..??? Sniper rifles have existed since the European wars or even before that…??!!!
agent 47 favorite rifle
Cool weapon, but looks beyond complicated. I’d never desire one even if I could afford it
German engineering at its finest: highest quality, but too over-engineered and too expensive to be useful. Guns and cuckoo clocks shouldn’t have the same designer.
In MW2 I never used this cause I thought it was ugly. Now I wish I could go back in time
Poorly designed @ 0.11 the shooter has his arm burnt by the 2nd ejected
shell. Surely, not a good look for a wanna b sniper waving their burnt arm arm around in the air for the enemy 2 c? Surely a simple deflector fitted to the ejection port would solve this simple problem.
Walther, whats the price tag say about the weapons cost?
Its Over $9000!!!!!!
So for Hitman IO got the ability to fold this in a suitcase wrong but the sound is almost identical
There are 2 videos listed as The Ultimate German Sniper Rifle…. if it hasn’t been done yet, this needs a head to head competition to see which IS the ultimate.
Wanted one before it was cool. I blame Rogue Spear.
176 made 🙁 there goes my hope of owning one
That rifle was not designed to put rounds on paper it was designed to put rounds through terrorist’s brains.
Soooooo, nice of those sauerkraut-eatin’ scumbags to take left-handed shooters into account… I guess a set of woodfiles and a nice piece of oak under the christmas tree to make my own lefty furniture.
Wow that’s got very little barrel harmonics that very impressive on how little it flexes on a full power rifle cartridge!
Somehow i love this thing
So this is the rifle Hitman based their Sieger 300 snipers on
WAZOOO
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Ah yes Wa-Chan, the best Tsundere
hey look it’s the bozar!
Hitman: Blood Money memories
Where my goldeneye bois at
too many cosmetics part, with minor function
Damn I bet that casing left a nice burn on that soft arm skin
In today’s episode, Gun Jesus fire Agent 47’s sniper rifle.
Reminds me of the woodgrain in an older BMW or Mercedes lol
top rifle ever made !sadly our german gov baned it-XD RIFLE !!
ban weapons
Germans know how to engineer stuff, and then engineer it some more.
And thats just Ausführung 1.
How are there no modern homages to stuff like this? It’s so unique and cool that we need more of them
Looks like the Dragunov SVU ( bullpup SVD ) have a competitor sniper rifle
Weird that with all the R&D Walther didn’t use a Mil dot scope or attach the scope mount directly to the barrel. That’s a ton of $$ for a rifle lacking a couple of the basics, but yea it was the 1970’s. Cool rifle. I would buy one if I had f u money
How to counter A BFG/Hecate User in PF/IRL
Use the WA2000
And kill em all cus ur rifle is semi auto while their is bolt action but they use 12.7×99 rounds
this looks like if porsche tried to make a rifle
Real life biathlon weapon.
If someone had told me Joerg Sprave designed this I would have said, "Oh yeah, I can totally see that."
Came from Fate/Zero cause of Kiritsugu.
these bipod legs are FAMAS bipod legs…