Tactics PTR as a sniper rifle?

[[5GTA] Juan]

Accounting Tsaitsev Memories, one of his "rabbits", a georgian giant, used a PTRS with a scope for putting out MGs and small artillery pieces.

 

[Klaus]

PTRD, not PTRS is one of the most powerful weapons in RO as it has no drop at all.. meaning it goes in a streight line until it hits something no matter how far.

 

[YoYoTheAssyrian]

I've heard stories about how every one's favourite sniper Vassili Zaitsev was a little unimpressed with the standard 7.62 round and decided to have a scope mounted to a ptrd. He then go annoyed with the ammo producers because the powder load changed from round to round and he couldn't get any real decent accuracy beyond 800 meters. IIRC it was especially used for taking out mg's in bunkers.

Admittedly I'm working from Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, but on page 154 it seems that Zaitsev wasn't using a ptrd but an actual anti-tank gun (the kind that is essentially a cannon lookaing thingie). The actual quote is pretty non-specific mentioning the words "anti-tank gun" and "shell" for the ammunition type, but that called to mind a fixed cannon position not a mobile infantry weapon. And while it's not often represented in ww2 fps's the Russians did have actual anti-tank guns see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZiS-2 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45-mm_anti-tank_gun_M1942_(M-42) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45-mm_anti-tank_gun_M1937_(53-K) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37-mm_anti-tank_gun_M1930_(1-K) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-mm_field_gun_M1944_(BS-3) , I'm sorry that you''ll have to cut and paste the web addresses, but I'm sure that you'll figure it out.