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A bolt action rifle is a good skill enhancer, but little else.
The play style of a sniper or DM can easily be done with an M4 these days. There isn't much advantage in range, accuracy or even silence in a bolt action rifle anymore.
A polarstar locked in semi-auto with a silencer and 20 round mags would come close to replicating the experience.
The purpose of having a bolt action rifle is to hone your shooting and hunting skills. They force you to really pick your shots, you won't necessarily be heard if you miss, but you can't spam semi auto or fire full auto, either. It forces you to stalk targets in such a way that would guarantee one shot = one kill, often times without giving away your position.
Now the advantage of that, is the skill set transfers over to other guns as well.
You could just learn the same skills with an aeg, but I find the bolt action rifle really forces you to develop those skills much more effectively.
The general advice here though is be a riflemen first, then learn to hunt riflemen.
Once you have a good idea of how YOU would react to a situation, you'll have a better idea of how other people will react. It's important to understand the basics of shooting BBs before trying to be a sniper as well.
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