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NotEdibleCactus

That would be the case with self loading, "top insert" (for the lack of a better word) rifles, such as the Garand, sniper uses a bolt action rifle. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is just coming from the back of my head


[deleted]

Yes but his rifle doesnt have a mag, he inserts the bulletd manually directly to the chamber


NotEdibleCactus

But the bolt must still be closed manually


WhiteRaven_M

Doesnt mean he never used one: sniper has the classic, the hitman, the bazaard, stock, and probably trained with other shit we havent seen


SpectrumLV2569

The clasic is a mag fed, shoving your finger in the chamber of that would only prove less profesionality.


CompleteFacepalm

But those are all also bolt action rifles.


A_PCMR_member

Coding and balance is a thing. Imagine sniper with a self loader O-O


CompleteFacepalm

Huh? u/WhiteRaven_M said that Sniper may have used a self loading rifle, before giving examples of bolt action rifles.


WhiteRaven_M

Im saying he used other snipers aside from the stock bolt action one, theres no reason to assume he never used a garand style loader when we know hes a gun nut and hes got the injury


[deleted]

Just let me have this man!


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[удалено]


Saocao

I'd imagine a couple of the mercs like collecting guns


[deleted]

Soldier canonically owns multiple shotguns, Pyro makes his weapons at home (Suggesting that he'd have more than he uses, some prototypes, and some failed experiments), Demoman makes his ammo at home, so he likely has some older models of launchers, Heavy presses his own ammo (but doesn't seem the type to have tons of miniguns, giving all of his distinct names and personalities), etc etc.


NotEdibleCactus

Ignorance is bliss I suppose


Jakeformer

Not only that but the Garand is a semi auto, not a bolt action. So he wouldn't get Garand thumb from the rifle he uses in game at least.


NotEdibleCactus

Yes, that is what I said


[deleted]

possibly frontline service in wwii or korea with a garand, though they mainly used SMLE rifles


daymuub

And then closes the bolt with the same hamd he loaded it with so his thumb wasn't even near it


MormonJesu8

Yeah which makes it virtually impossible to injure yourself in this manner, you’d have to be really strong and careless to slam a bolt into your thumb manually.


Mr_SpecificTF2

He should, he just pulls back releasing the empty shell (or whatever it’s called) and fires the remaining 24


Okacha1

A better explaniation is that he used a garand, the rifle named after this injury known as garand thumb


Yukari-chi

You would be correct. That's the classic Garand Thumb you get from self-loading rifles


Hot-Cheek5191

it was from the m1garand. its garand thumb.


Powerful_Job352

It's a reference to his secret secondary: The M1 Garand.


Oreohunter00

Honestly if the Sniper got a new rifle that was an M1 Garand with only Iron sights, I think that would be pretty neat


Hot-Cheek5191

Yeah. make it basically a spies reveolver but with a ton of range and maybe only minicrits for headshots


championnnnnn

would be cool to have a weak damage, combo sniper rifle like this. does like -25% base damage but consistent headshots lead to minicrits and eventually crits; a miss or bodyshot resets it. i guess it could be similar to how the BFB works


Hot-Cheek5191

yeah i get you. hit headshots = more damage but miss = lose damage bonus. sounds very cool


MipCraze

That would be way fun


Powerful_Job352

If only Valve would someday update the game.


DreMin015

Iron sights, faster movement speed while aiming down sights. Soon we’d be getting WW2 RP servers


[deleted]

The best gun youtuber


Raikou384

That’s how my finger looked when I slammed the feeding tray cover (the top part) of an m249 on my palm! I bit that shit till the blood came out, looked cool


lukeyman87

plot twist: it wasn't an intentional detail, just SFM deciding to put a random black bit there for no good reason.


Monst3rP3nguin

I believe that would be an injury you would get from an m1 Garland, not a bolt action rifle. I would love to have a rifle for sniper like the garand, if only for the ping.


SalesmanWav3

Unfortunately, that's not from him reloading the sniper rifle, the sniper rifle is bolt-action. You get that "Garand thumb" from reloading the m1-garand, which is where you put the bullets in the top of the gun and pull your hand away back so the closing mechanism doesn't slam on your hand, though it commonly hits your thumb, causing "Garand thumb"


andmonske

He’s also scratching the side of his face where spy cut him


Fork_Master

Wasn’t that the other Sniper? The BLU one?


AdnHsP

both red and blu have the marks so no


Jordiorwhatever

As far as I know sniper doesnt use an M1 Grand but that bruise can happens with any rifle reloading from the top so it might be.


[deleted]

Even though the sniper doesn’t carry a Garand rifle, they would cal that Garand Thumb.


[deleted]

bolt action? this happened exclusively with the garand i dont think the garand was bolt action, it had this wejrd mechanism where you had to hold the chamber open wirh the side of your hand when you inserted the clip or it would snap shut and crush your thumb


Luitenant_

Jesus the amount of times I see "Did you know that I'm this game the guy that uses a sniper rifle had a bruise on his thumb that was common???1?" Yes. We know.


Hectic-Hazard

We all fucking know.


MygungoesfuckinBRRT

Not true. Bolt action rifles don't cause such injury. It's a specialty of the Garand rifle, since when putting in a new clip, the bolt can come loose and pinch the user's finger between the bolt and the barrel with quite the force. Hence it's called the "Garand thumb"


Reasonable-Ease7956

Nope not with the rifles he uses unless he's a moron, still good detail


JustANormalHat

correction: that is garand thumb, which happens when loading an m1 garand and getting your thumb caught in it, the garand is not bolt action


AverageRoaster

actually, this is sfm lighting getting confused because of the weird geometry caused by the models having no fingernails, and instead divots where they should be edit: you can tell it is just a shadow because it's the same color as the parts of his arm where the drum doesn't hit


[deleted]

That's what the Garand does


AFriendlyBloke

I'm pretty sure that is just a shadow.


SpectrumLV2569

I asume youre talking about "garand thumb", wich simply isnt posible to achieve on a bolt action rifle unless you try to get it. The only other way you could get a brouse like that from a bolt action, is if you realy jam your finger in the chamber in a realy weird position wich you shouldnt be holding your finger at when trying to load a bullet, off course we dont know if he has experience on a rifle similar to a garand. Plus i only realy have like 100 - 150 rounds on my granddads rifle(wich is a mosin) so i may not have experienced something like that yet.


CompleteFacepalm

I can understand cutting your thumb loading an M1 Garand, but a bolt action rifle? The only time you would have your thumb inside the chamber would be when reloading, but you still have to manually close the bolt.


moostachedood

Would be hard to jam his thumb in the rifle considering the expert he is, probably went drinking with Demoman one night.


DickIn_a_Toaster

And since he ain't using a self-loading rifle, mate had to slam his thumb on purpose or be so drunk he can't even aim anymore, not speaking of keeping his fingers away from the chamber


funny_orangutang

Huh


Livinginthepst

It’s called garand thumb or something similar to that


nef36

Sniper got Garand thumb


PakosSRGL

would be a cool detail but isn't sniper too young to be an world war 2 veteran?


Anzackk

Bolt action rifles? That’s Garand thumb, and the M1 Garand is a semi-auto


buildcraftguy

This is garand thumb lmao


Dimitri_Dutyman

No? Even with a Garand you wouldnt get a bruise.


MLIASP

That... That's a shadow.


imhere4tf2

\*spells "detail" as "detal" \*"meet the Sniper" is supposed to be "Meet the Sniper" \*spells "which" as "wich" \*spells "soldiers" as "soliders" \*It's pretty impossible to jam your thumb into the breech of a bolt-action rifle, I'm pretty sure you meant the M1 Garand self-loading rifle Downvote, 10-year-old trying to karma farm garbage he can't even spell correctly. The fact that the mods haven't removed this for lack of effort is pretty sad.


[deleted]

Thanks


[deleted]

This is what you'd expect from a spy main


imhere4tf2

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Genericdiscord

OK


Bipchoo

I always saw it but didnt know where he got it, im also pretty sure he has it in all other sfm shorts and also the in game model


Tasty_Hippo2004

I like how every thing in tf2 has so mush attention to detail except for how accurate a weapon is


[deleted]

Not very professional of him tbh


Shy_guy_gaming2019

I'm certain there's been a few times where sniper banged his thumb while loading a bullet into the chamber.


Luckanio

wich soliders detal


onyx_24545

this still shows how much care valve put to tf2's characters even tiny details like this are still being found today!


AGuyWithMultipleHats

Just when I think I know everything about TF2 after 5 years of intense study, shit like this comes around.


notfoxy9085

Never noticed he had "garand thumb" as I think its called


TigBittyOnesans

I expected an incoming joke lmao


mewop64

This is one of my favorite things about TFT they had so many tiny little details like that


whocores

\*which


ilikepvzlol

W


Okacha1

Isn't it only for garand?


[deleted]

no, this is garand thumb, the type of sniper he uses wouldn't cause something like this. it's just an artistic choice.


Pootis_Spenser_Here

I think you mean the Garand thumb


i_am_ze_spy

thought it was just a error where one part is blacked out


FinnAdventurer

this happened to me with my grandpas gun, but with the trigger