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Blaser R93 - .308 Winchester

Blaser R93 Tactical - 7.62x51mm. The "Tactical" was a sniper rifle variant of the earlier UIT and CISM match variants of the R93, and the precursor to the current "LRS2" and "Tactical 2" models.

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Blaser LRS2 - .338 Lapua Magnum. The rifle is usually outfitted with either a Parker & Hale or Harris Bipod.

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Closeup of the receiver (left side) of the Blaser LRS2 - .338 Lapua Magnum. The factory identification and markings are clearly visible.

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Blaser LRS2 with Harris Bipod - .338 Lapua Magnum.

The Blaser R93 is a German straight-pull modular precision sniper rifle. Originally a hunting weapon with a traditional wooden stock introduced in 1993 (and discontinued in 2017), several competition models with synthetic bodies were released by Blaser, the first few being the UIT and CISM models, named after Union Internationale de Tir and Conseil International du Sport Militaire, two European shooting competitions, respectively.

In 1997, after SIG-Sauer acquired Blaser, the rifles expanded into the tactical market. The competition models were rebranded as the Tactical model, and new Long Range Sporter (LRS) model was created (some sources call them Blaser LRT, Long Range Tactical), though in design there is little difference between these differently named models (the police models even retained the holes used for the mounting bracket for competition diopter sights, which goes completely unused in their field).

The first Tactical model was not very successful. Blaser updated the design to the LRS2 model, with a different magazine and receiver design. The LRS2 was much more successful and was adopted by several police and military forces. A large chassis version of the LRS2 using .338 Lapua Magnum was created, but is not very successful. A new Tactical 2 model was created, chambered in the most common military calibers and can interchange between them easily. The Tactical 2 was even more successful and helped Blaser secure a contract with the Australian military.

One of the more unusual variants of the R93 is a handgun version called the Blaser R93 Handgun Hunting System. It is an ultra short R93 with a 14-inch barrel and pistol grip.

Specifications

(1993 - Present)

Type: Sniper Rifle

Caliber:
- Original Blaser R93: See Blaser Caliber Overview
- Tactical models: .308 Winchester and .300 Winchester Magnum (Tactical, Tactical 2 and LRS2), .338 Lapua Magnum (Tactical 2)

Weight: 11.9 lbs (5.4 kg)

Length: 45.3 in (115 cm)

Barrel length: 25.6 in (65 cm)

Capacity:
- Original Blaser R93: Varies by caliber
- Tactical models: 5 or 10 (.308 Winchester), 4 (.300 Winchester Magnum)

Fire Modes: Bolt Action

The Blaser R93 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Cradle 2 the Grave	Drag-On	Miles	with suppressor	2003
Miami Vice		One of Yero's snipers		2006
Hitman	Timothy Olyphant	Agent 47	Fitted with Parker-Hale bipod	2007
Rush Hour 3	Hiroyuki Sanada	Kenji	Fitted with Harris bipod	2007
The Dark Knight		GCPD S.W.A.T. snipers		2008
12 Rounds				2009
Predators	Alice Braga	Isabelle		2010
Inception	Leonardo DiCaprio	Dom Cobb	winterized, suppressor	2010
Colombiana	Zoe Saldana	Cataleya Restrepo		2011
Savages	Alexander Wraith	Sam		2012
Savages	Anthony Cutolo	Billy		2012
The Lookout		RAID snipers		2012
The Last Stand		Henchman	LRS2 model	2013
Crosshairs	Luke Edwards	Grandie	With suppressor and Harris Bipod	2013
Crosshairs		Brill's henchman	With suppressor and Harris Bipod	2013
Fast & Furious 6	Dwayne Johnson	DSS Agent Luke Hobbs		2013
Kick-Ass 2			In the case with Big Daddy's armor	2013
Kingsman: The Secret Service		Henchmen	White Tactical 2 model	2015
Hitman: Agent 47		Interrogator		2015
Operation Red Sea	Huang Jingyu	Gu Shun	Blaser R93 Tactical model	2018
Angel Has Fallen	Nick Nolte	Clay Banning	Model Professional Camo	2019
Black Widow	Rachel Weisz	Melina Vostokoff	suppressed	2021
The Gray Man	Ana de Armas	Dani Miranda		2022

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note/ Episode	Air Date
Firefly		sniper	"Serenity" (S1E01)	2002
Firefly	Adam Baldwin	Jayne Cobb	"Serenity" (S1E01)	2002
Firefly		Niska's sniper	"War Stories" (S1E10)	2002
NCIS - Season 1	Noah Segan	Kyle Hendricks	Fitted with Parker-Hale bipod; "One Shot, One Kill" (S1E13)	2003
NCIS - Season 3	Pauley Perrette	Abby Scuito	"Kill Ari, Part 1" (S3E01)	2005
CSI: NY / "Hide Sight" (S07E07)		NYPD ESU Sniper	R93 Tactical, with Harris bipod	2004 - Present
The Unit			"Gone Missing" (S3) .	2007
Heroes	Ali Larter	Jessica	As a fiction "Kinsella 320Z" rifle	2006-2010
The Kill Point	Michael K. Williams	Quincy	Fitted with Parker-Hale bipod	2007
Primeval	James Murray	Stephen Hart	(S2E01)	2007-Present
My Own Worst Enemy	Christian Slater	Edward Albright	.	2008
Chuck - Season 3	Vinnie Jones	Karl Stromberg	"Chuck Versus the Three Words" (S3E02)	2009
Chuck - Season 5	Carrie-Anne Moss	Gertrude Verbanski	"Chuck Versus The Hack Off" (S5E05)	2010
Kings	.	Gilboa sniper	Suppressor; "Prosperity"	2009
24 - Season 8		CTU Sniper	"7:00 A.M - 8:00 A.M" (S8E16)	2010
Homeland	Chris Chalk	Thomas Patrick "Tom" Walker	"Marine One" (S1E12)	2011
The Last Ship	Nathan Sutton	McGregor	"No Place Like Home" (S1E10)	2014
In Plain Sight	Jason E. Hill	Mercenary #1	"Something Borrowed, Something Blew Up" (S04E13)	2011
The Tunnel	Nicolas Wanczycki	Thibaut Briand		2016
Jean-Claude Van Johnson	Jean-Claude Van Damme	Jean-Claude Van Damme	"Pilot" (S1E01)	2016

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig	Saito	(Episode "Beware the Left Eye – POKER FACE")	2005
Blassreiter	Brad and Al	(Episode 2 "The Price of Glory")	2008
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom	Zwei		2009

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Hitman:Codename 47	R93 Sniper Rifle			2000
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin	R93 Sniper			2002
Hitman: Contracts	R93 Sniper			2004
Alliance of Valiant Arms		With Harris bipod		2007
Cross Fire	"R93 T2"			2007
Counter-Strike Online				2008
War Inc. Battlezone		w/ various attachments		2011
Payday 2	R93		added in "Gage Sniper Pack DLC" (2014)	2013
Black Squad	Blazer R93	Harris bipod and AN/PEQ-15		2017
Ironsight	Blaser R93		Additional picatinny rails	2018
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts	"BLOWER R93"		Blaser R93 Tactical LRS2	2019
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2	"LSSR SOKIL 4"		Blaser R93 Tactical LRS2	2021

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-'''The Blaser 93 sniper rifle can be seen in the following films and television series used by the following actors:'''
+[[File:R93SemiWeightRifle.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Blaser R93 - .308 Winchester]]
-[[Image:Blaser93.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Blaser 93 sniper rifle 7.62x51mm NATO]]
+[[File:Blaser R93 Tactical (LSR1).jpg|thumb|501px|right|Blaser R93 Tactical - 7.62x51mm. The "Tactical" was a sniper rifle variant of the earlier UIT and CISM match variants of the R93, and the precursor to the current "LRS2" and "Tactical 2" models.]]
+[[File:Blaser93SniperRifleA.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Blaser LRS2 - .338 Lapua Magnum.  The rifle is usually  outfitted with either a Parker & Hale or Harris Bipod.]]
+[[File:BlaserR93Receiver.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Closeup of the receiver (left side) of the Blaser LRS2 - .338 Lapua Magnum.  The factory identification and markings are clearly visible.]]
+[[File:BlaserR93WithHarrisBipod.jpg‎|thumb|right|500px|Blaser LRS2 with Harris Bipod - .338 Lapua Magnum.]]
-=== Film ===
+The '''Blaser R93''' is a German straight-pull modular precision sniper rifle. Originally a hunting weapon with a traditional wooden stock introduced in 1993 (and discontinued in 2017), several competition models with synthetic bodies were released by Blaser, the first few being the UIT and CISM models, named after Union Internationale de Tir and Conseil International du Sport Militaire, two European shooting competitions, respectively.
-* One of Castillo's men in ''[[Miami Vice (2006)|Miami Vice]]''
+In 1997, after SIG-Sauer acquired Blaser, the rifles expanded into the tactical market. The competition models were rebranded as the Tactical model, and new Long Range Sporter (LRS) model was created (some sources call them Blaser LRT, Long Range Tactical), though in design there is little difference between these differently named models (the police models even retained the holes used for the mounting bracket for competition diopter sights, which goes completely unused in their field).
-=== Television ===
+The first Tactical model was not very successful. Blaser updated the design to the LRS2 model, with a different magazine and receiver design. The LRS2 was much more successful and was adopted by several police and military forces. A large chassis version of the LRS2 using .338 Lapua Magnum was created, but is not very successful. A new Tactical 2 model was created, chambered in the most common military calibers and can interchange between them easily. The Tactical 2 was even more successful and helped Blaser secure a contract with the Australian military.
-* Pittsburg Police SWAT sniper in ''[[The Kill Point]]''
+One of the more unusual variants of the R93 is a handgun version called the Blaser R93 Handgun Hunting System. It is an ultra short R93 with a 14-inch barrel and pistol grip.
-[[Category:Gun]]
+==Specifications==
+(1993 - Present)
+* '''Type:''' Sniper Rifle
+* '''Caliber:'''
+** Original Blaser R93: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150927034852/http://www.blaser-usa.com/fileadmin/editor/caliber-pdf/Blaser_Calibers_Bolt_Action_R93_EN.pdf  See Blaser Caliber Overview]''
+** Tactical models: .308 Winchester and .300 Winchester Magnum (Tactical, Tactical 2 and LRS2), .338 Lapua Magnum (Tactical 2)
+* '''Weight:''' {{convert|kg|5.4}}
+* '''Length:''' {{convert|mm|1150}}
+* '''Barrel length:''' {{convert|mm|650}}
+* '''Capacity:'''
+** Original Blaser R93: Varies by caliber
+** Tactical models: 5 or 10 (.308 Winchester), 4 (.300 Winchester Magnum)
+* '''Fire Modes:''' Bolt Action
+-----
+{{Gun Title}}
+===Film===
+{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
+|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="220"|'''Title'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Note'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|'''Date'''
+|-
+| ''[[Cradle 2 the Grave]]'' || [[Drag-On]] || Miles || with suppressor || 2003
+|-
+| ''[[Miami Vice (2006)|Miami Vice]]'' || || One of Yero's snipers || || 2006
+|-
+| ''[[Hitman (2007)|Hitman]]'' || [[Timothy Olyphant]] || Agent 47 || Fitted with Parker-Hale bipod || 2007
+|-
+| ''[[Rush Hour 3]]'' || [[Hiroyuki Sanada]] || Kenji || Fitted with Harris bipod || 2007
+|-
+| ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' || || GCPD S.W.A.T. snipers || || 2008
+|-
+| '' [[12 Rounds]]'' || || || ||2009
+|-
+| ''[[Predators (2010)|Predators]]'' || [[Alice Braga]] || Isabelle || || 2010
+|-
+| ''[[Inception]]'' || [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] || Dom Cobb || winterized, suppressor || 2010
+|-
+| ''[[Colombiana]]'' || [[Zoe Saldana]] || Cataleya Restrepo || || 2011
+|-
+|rowspan=2| ''[[Savages]]'' || Alexander Wraith  || Sam || ||rowspan=2| 2012
+|-
+|| Anthony Cutolo  || Billy ||
+|-
+| ''[[Lookout, The|The Lookout]]'' || || RAID snipers || ||2012
+|-
+| ''[[The Last Stand]]'' || || Henchman || LRS2 model || 2013
+|-
+| ''[[Crosshairs]]'' || [[Luke Edwards]] || Grandie || With suppressor and Harris Bipod || 2013
+|-
+| ''[[Crosshairs]]'' || || Brill's henchman || With suppressor and Harris Bipod || 2013
+|-
+| ''[[Fast & Furious 6]]'' || [[Dwayne Johnson]] || DSS Agent Luke Hobbs || || 2013
+|-
+| ''[[Kick-Ass 2]]'' || || || In the case with Big Daddy's armor || 2013
+|-
+| ''[[Kingsman: The Secret Service]]'' || || Henchmen || White Tactical 2 model || 2015
+|-
+| ''[[Hitman: Agent 47]]'' || || Interrogator || || 2015
+|-
+| ''[[Operation Red Sea]]'' || Huang Jingyu || Gu Shun || Blaser R93 Tactical model || 2018
+|-
+| ''[[Angel Has Fallen]]'' || [[Nick Nolte]] || Clay Banning || Model Professional Camo || 2019
+|-
+|''[[Black Widow (2021)|Black Widow]]''||[[Rachel Weisz]]||Melina Vostokoff||suppressed||2021
+|-
+|''[[Gray Man, The|The Gray Man]]''||[[Ana de Armas]]||Dani Miranda||||2022
+|-
+|}
+===Television===
+{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
+|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Show Title '''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="350"|'''Note/ Episode'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|'''Air Date'''
+|-
+| ''[[Firefly]]'' ||  || sniper ||"Serenity" (S1E01) || 2002
+|-
+| ''[[Firefly]]'' || [[Adam Baldwin]] || Jayne Cobb ||"Serenity" (S1E01) || 2002
+|-
+| ''[[Firefly]]'' ||  || Niska's sniper ||"War Stories" (S1E10) || 2002
+|-
+| ''[[NCIS - Season 1]]'' || Noah Segan || Kyle Hendricks|| Fitted with Parker-Hale bipod; "One Shot, One Kill" (S1E13) || 2003
+|-
+| ''[[NCIS - Season 3]]'' || [[Pauley Perrette]] || Abby Scuito ||  "Kill Ari, Part 1" (S3E01) || 2005
+|-
+|''[[CSI: NY - Season 7|CSI: NY]]'' / "Hide Sight" (S07E07)|| ||NYPD ESU Sniper|| R93 Tactical, with Harris bipod ||2004 - Present
+|-
+| ''[[The Unit]]'' ||  || ||  "Gone Missing" (S3) . || 2007
+|-
+| ''[[Heroes]]'' || [[Ali Larter]] || Jessica || As a fiction "Kinsella 320Z" rifle || 2006-2010
+|-
+| ''[[The Kill Point]]'' || [[Michael K. Williams]] || Quincy || Fitted with Parker-Hale bipod || 2007
+|-
+| ''[[Primeval]]''  || [[James Murray]] || Stephen Hart || (S2E01) || 2007-Present
+|-
+| ''[[My Own Worst Enemy]]'' || [[Christian Slater]] || Edward Albright || . || 2008
+|-
+| ''[[Chuck - Season 3]]'' || [[Vinnie Jones]] || Karl Stromberg || "Chuck Versus the Three Words" (S3E02) || 2009
+|-
+| ''[[Chuck - Season 5]]'' || [[Carrie-Anne Moss]] || Gertrude Verbanski || "Chuck Versus The Hack Off" (S5E05)|| 2010
+|-
+| ''[[Kings]]'' || . || Gilboa sniper ||Suppressor; "Prosperity" || 2009
+|-
+| ''[[24 - Season 8]]''|| || CTU Sniper || "7:00 A.M - 8:00 A.M" (S8E16) || 2010
+|-
+| ''[[Homeland]]''|| [[Chris Chalk]] || Thomas Patrick "Tom" Walker  || "Marine One" (S1E12) || 2011
+|-
+| ''[[The Last Ship - Season 1|The Last Ship]]'' ||[[Nathan Sutton]]|| McGregor||"No Place Like Home" (S1E10) || 2014
+|-
+| ''[[In Plain Sight]]''  ||[[Jason E. Hill]]|| Mercenary #1||"Something Borrowed, Something Blew Up" (S04E13) || 2011
+|-
+| ''[[Tunnel, The - Season 2|The Tunnel]]'' || [[Nicolas Wanczycki]] || Thibaut Briand |||| 2016
+|-
+| ''[[Jean-Claude Van Johnson]]'' || [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] || Jean-Claude Van Damme || "Pilot" (S1E01) || 2016
+|-
+|}
+===Anime===
+{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
+|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="275"|'''Title'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="275"|'''Character'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Note'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Date'''
+|-
+|''[[Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig]]''|| Saito ||  (Episode "Beware the Left Eye – POKER FACE")  || 2005
+|-
+| ''Blassreiter''  ||  Brad and Al || (Episode 2 "The Price of Glory")|| 2008
+|-
+| ''[[Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom]]'' ||Zwei ||  || 2009
+|-
+|}
+===Video Games===
+{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
+|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notation'''
+!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
+|-
+|[[Hitman:Codename 47]]||R93 Sniper Rifle||||||2000
+|-
+|[[Hitman 2: Silent Assassin]]||R93 Sniper||||||2002
+|-
+|[[Hitman: Contracts]]||R93 Sniper||||||2004
+|-
+| [[Alliance of Valiant Arms]] ||  || With Harris bipod ||  || 2007
+|-
+|''[[Cross Fire (2007 VG)|Cross Fire]]''||"R93 T2" || ||||2007
+|-
+|[[Counter-Strike Online]]||||||||2008
+|-
+| [[War Inc. Battlezone]] || || w/ various attachments  || || 2011
+|-
+| [[Payday 2]] || R93 || ||added in "Gage Sniper Pack DLC" (2014) || 2013
+|-
+| [[Black Squad]] || Blazer R93 || Harris bipod and AN/PEQ-15 || || 2017
+|-
+| [[Ironsight]] || Blaser R93 || || Additional picatinny rails || 2018
+|-
+| [[Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts]] ||"BLOWER R93"|| || Blaser R93 Tactical LRS2 || 2019
+|-
+| [[Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2]] ||"LSSR SOKIL 4"|| || Blaser R93 Tactical LRS2 || 2021
+|-
+|}
+=See Also=
+* [[Blaser]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Blaser.
+[[Category:Gun]]
+[[Category:Rifle]]
+[[Category:Sniper Rifle]]

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