While a sniper weapon has to be good, a sniper should expect more.  His weapon should be outstanding.  Outstanding from the rest of the crowd.  A weapon that was made to fit into sniper operations.  While I stress that the most important factor one has to consider when puchasing a weapon is its reliability, for a sniper, distance just about rivals reliability.  You need a weapon that will fire, and fire hard, and fire long.  You should probably look for a gun that shoot more than 35 ft.  Distance is very important. 

Before purchasing a gun, find one that meets your requirements for a sniper rifle.   Your requirements should include:

1.  Gun has a range of more that 35 ft.

2. Gun has top reliability

3. Gun has the ability to be easily camouflaged.

4. Gun has the right size to be easily carried.

5. Gun can be easily maneuvered  while laying on the ground.

6. Gun has decent locations for a strap

7 Gun has decent locations for a scope

8.  Gun has a formidable nozzle size

9. Gun is fairly simple to use

10. Gun has absolutaly nothing that it doesn't needs.

I put this special list up for sniper weapons because looking for a good sniper weapon is a lot different than looking for a good regular weapon.  The priorities are different, and the field of use is different, too.

You should consider all these before making your choice.  You would not want the backfire for a sniper weapon, because it has that wasteful backwards stream(not to mention the single tank reservior).  You would not want the CPS- 2700 because it is to big and awkward to use for lightning fast sniper operations(plus, from what I have heard, has poor range)

Once you have found a gun that reasonably satisfies the above, you may purchase it.   When you go to purchase it, look for these things, right at the gun in the store:

1.Does the box look dented up in any way?  Is the gun scratched?(evidence of poor handling)

2.How does the weapon's pump feel?  (You should look for one that is fairly to very easy to pump.  This is important, as I have look at the same model of gun in the same story, and one had a pump that was very tight and hard to use, and one had a pump that was smooth and glided very easily)

3.  How loud is the trigger?  (between the same model, you will find some have whisper quiet trigger actions, and other have a loud chik-ching sound)

4. Does the gun look well put together?  Is it solid? (you may find some creak, and some hold together nicely)

5. Out of all these, which ones do I like the best?  (you should spend at least 15 min looking and comparing all the models of the gun of your choice to find the best one in the store, and you wont be dissapointed when you find it!)

If you can find an old CPS-1000, 1500/1700, or CPS-2000/2500, buy it, as these will make really good sniper weapons as well.

For a sniper weapon, you need one that delivers maximum performance in a minimum amount of time.  This is because you only get about a second to shoot at your target.  You don't want them to find you, so you shoot and scoot. If a gun has a pressure chamber that is only good for about 2 seconds, thats ok!!!  Your mission is over very fast, whether you hit your target, or you miss!!!  Your gun needs to either have a good sting factor, like the XP-105, or Drenching power, like the CPS-2500.  You need a weapon that the enemy will remember when you hit them with it.   It's one thing to get hit with a tiny little stream like that of an XP-220 out of nowhere, its another thing to not know where the 20x blast from the CPS-2500 right on your chest came from.  This might scare the enemy a little more, which could be an advantage for you, like right before your team attacks.  Try getting someone to shoot you with your own blaster, so that you know what it feels like. 

Think about your decision to purchase a sniper weapon.  Make it a good choice.

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