Talk:Barrett M82

Additional Variants

Barrett M82A1 - .50 Caliber

Original/Early Specification Barrett M82 .50 BMG

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.

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:

Barrett M82A1 - .416 Barrett

--commando552 20:14, 11 December 2011 (CST)

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)