Also appears in "Superman returns", about 52 mins in the movie in a shoot out scene on a roof top of a building. A police officer (credited as "Police Sharp Shooter": Phillip Henry) operates a Barrett .50 BMG, can't say if it's a M107 or M82A1.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingBarrett M82A1 - .50 BMG. One of the first version adopted by U.S. forces in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. Note the muzzle-brake.
Possible Rename?
- Would it be silly to request a change of the name of the page from simply 'Barrett M82' to 'Barrett M82 series'? Mainly because there are several guns within the 82 model name (M82/M82A1/A2/CQ/etc), much like the Mossberg 500 Series and other such pages. Just a thought. StanTheMan 14:25, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea to me. Ramell 20:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
M107 is now also called the M82A1
If you go to the Barrett website it would seem that what used to be called the M107 (and what is listed as the M107 on this site) is now sold by Barrett as the M82A1. Even though M82A1 is the correct name, should this rifle still be identified as the M107 so avoid confusion and put a note in the M107 section about the name change or what? Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Also, I didn't realise but it seems that the M82A1/M107 is also available in .416 Barrett, and seems to be able to be distinguished by a different flash hider:
From what I can tell from a quick look around, what you have there is called an M82A1M, though the Marines call it M82A3. There isn't a great deal of visual difference between it and the M107, mind you; from what I can tell, the main difference is the M107 doesn't have a quick-detachable muzzle brake. Evil Tim 20:25, 11 December 2011 (CST)
It isn't the M82A3. If I am right, the M82A3 is quite easy to tell from other variants, as the rail on top is raised by about an inch, and doesn't go all the way to the front of the handguard, stopping about 2 inches short to allow for folding iron sights. The design of the M82A3 muzzle brake still appears to be the 4 hole arrowhead shaped one. Only guns I can find with this cylindrical 6 hole muzzle brake are .416 (look on the Mythbusters for a different angle of the muzzle brake). --commando552 04:22, 12 December 2011 (CST)
I think at this point we might want to consider emailing Barrett and asking them. I find images of both the one with the raised rail and the one without labelled as M82A3. About the best I've found so far regarding an actual answer is one page for an airsoft manufacturer ID'ing by version (in Japanese) which says the flat-top one is the M82A1M (with M107 in brackets) and the raised-rail was the M82A3. Evil Tim 05:00, 12 December 2011 (CST)
Am not 100% but I believe the M82A1M (below) had a rail that was the same length as the M82A3 (stopped a couple of inches short of the front of the forend to allow for a folding front sight) but it was not raised. The M82A3 also doesn't have the rear grip and monopod socket of the M82A1M. I have never seen an M82A3 without the raised rail, but according to wikipedia (pinch of salt) it can occasionally be found with the standard height rail found on the M82A1M.
Back to the more pertinent question though, what should the M107 be called now, as Barrett currently sells it as the M82A1 (am assuming because it is a more recognised name). --commando552 05:48, 12 December 2011 (CST)
But the US M107 seems to have that shorter rail too in some images, though Wikipedia has what they say is a Bundeswehr M107 with a full-length rail (and one picture they claim is an M107 which is actually an M82A1). Going off rail length would imply this new model is not an M107 and the M82A1M is, confusingly enough. Also, if that's from that pete's guns place or whatever it was called, doesn't that have pictures of several variants on that same page? Could be that 'M' is actually an M107? Evil Tim 06:02, 12 December 2011 (CST)
Rather annoyingly, the M107 isn't listed on the US Army website fact files, so can't tell for sure what rail length the official version has. However, all current pictures I can find of actual US Army soldiers with a Barrett feature the full length rail without the folding iron sights on the receiver, an exact match for what Barrett currently lists as the M82A1 on their website. It may be the case that the original M107s were just M82A1Ms. If you google image search M82A1M all the results (with the exception of mislabelled original M82A1s) appear to have this shorter rail with folding iron sights attached to the receiver, so I think the picture above is an M82A1M. Below is my best guess at what the different variants are:
M82: first version with the solid stock
Original M82A1: classic rifle with the short raised rail
M82A1M: low long rail that stops a couple of inches short of the front of the forend with visible folding front sight, also has rear grip
M82A3: raised long rail that stops a couple of inches short of the front of the forend with visible folding front sight, lacks the rear grip
M107/Current M82A1: full length rail with rear grip. It actually has a folding front sight, but it is inside the rail so isn't visible from the side
Back to the original question (if what I have above is correct, are there any Americans who know more about Barretts who want the weigh in on this?) do we start calling the M107 the M82A1 or what? If not, should a note be put on this page that even though we ID the gun as an M107 (kind of like how we call what is now the SIG-Sauer P226 the P226R) it is now sold as the M82A1?--commando552 08:33, 12 December 2011 (CST)
Precident is to stick with the original name of articles, as a rule (eg we still say GE M61 Vulcan even though GE hasn't made them for years) so I'd say M107 makes more sense, with a note perhaps that Barrett calls the variant the M82A1 in modern press materials if it turns out that's what they're actually doing. Evil Tim 09:03, 12 December 2011 (CST)
Is there a reason the M82A3 (full-length tall rail with visible front sight) isn't listed on the page? Because it appears in Stella C3-Bu, but there's no picture to add for it. Alex T Snow (talk) 23:14, 19 September 2013 (EDT)
