Erma SR-100 Sniper Rifle Australian Army

The barrel of the Erma SR-100 is made of cold-forged high-quality steel, with lightweight aluminum alloys for most other metal parts except for most of the operating mechanism parts. The barrel of the 7.62mm version is 28.5 inches; all other versions use a 32.5-inch barrel. The trigger is adjustable for pull, slack, weight, and position; the stock is adjustable in length and height of the buttplate and the height of the cheekpiece. (Most stocks are made from high-quality laminated wood, but synthetic stocks are available.) The bipod is adjustable, and a retractable “third leg” under the stock may also be deployed.

Erma SR 100 Sniper Rifle

Inside the handguard is a compartment for storage of the bipod when it is detached, as well as a set of sling swivels. (The bipod and the front sling swivel cannot be attached at the same time, since they use the same attachment point.) The sight mount is a MIL-STD-1913 rail. Backup iron sights do not come standard with the SR-100, though fully-adjustable iron sights which attach to the MIL-STD-1913 rail and a mount hear the muzzle brake can be provided upon request. An extendable mirage deflector, used to reduce haze on the front iron sight, may also be had upon request. The muzzle has a full muzzle brake, which can be removed if a suppressor is desired and the ammunition is appropriate.

Erma SR-100 Austrlian Sniper Rifle

When first introduced, the Erma SR-100 Sniper Rifle was available in .50 Browning Machinegun and .50 Anthis, but these chamberings were quickly dropped. However, as of 2006, a version firing the .50 Whisper subsonic round (not to be confused with the .500 Whisper) was in development, but not expected to be on the market until mid-2007. This version will mount an integral suppressor/silencer as standard equipment.

The company of Erma was taken over by Suhler und Sportwaffen (a division of Steyr-Mannlicher) in 1998. One of their products is the advanced SR-100 sniper rifle, a weapon built of modern materials and providing features that are desired by most military and police snipers. Not only did supplies of the SR-100 suffer from arriving late on the scene; such a large amount of precision work is required in their construction that supplies of the rifle were very low indeed. Though they were spread out among US, NATO, Israeli, and Australian snipers, no one country used a large amount of them.