SPACE FORCE SNIPER

It’s been more than eight years since U.S. military members began running around the world with the SCAR Mk20 SSR. And now you can get your grubbies on a damn-near 1:1 clone in the form of the SCAR 20S. For a long time now, we’ve seen the Mk20 pop up at trade shows with the promise of eventually being able to buy it. As it turned out, a semi-auto M249 hit the market first (not that we’re complaining about that).

While the 7.62N SCAR-H is basically a Lane Bryant version of the 5.56 SCAR-L, the same isn’t the case with the 20S; there’s far more going on than simply a longer barrel and receiver. The longer trunnion, which FN calls the “wheelbase,” makes for a very rigid barrel configuration. Removing the 20S barrel reveals major differences compared to the skinny pencil barrels of the originals.

You can safely think of the barrel attachment method as a precision