After the course, snipers had no difficulty hitting targets out to 1,000 meters from "ridgetop to ridgetop". Snipers in the field learned how to use and maintain the new rifle during a three-day course. Army issued three XM2010s to snipers at the United States Army Sniper School on 18 January 2011 and began using the rifle in combat in Afghanistan in March 2011. By January, 250 had been ordered to be changed. On 20 September 2010, the Army gave Remington a $28 million contract to rebuild 3,600 M24 rifles. 300 Winchester Magnum round that can hit targets out to 1,200 m (1,312 yd) with 1 MOA accuracy, half again as far as the M24's 800 m (875 yd).
This was acceptable for shooting at materiel but not people.
50 BMG rifle can hit targets past 2,000 m (2,187 yd), but it is accurate to 2.5 MOA, meaning it would hit within a 25 in (640 mm) area at 1,000 m (1,094 yd).
This chambering to dimensionally larger cartridges is possible because the M24 was designed to use the "long action" bolt version of the Remington 700 receiver for cartridges up to 3.34 inches (84.84 mm) in overall length. 300 Winchester Magnum (7.62×67mm) ammunition, which offers about 50 percent more effective range than the M24's 7.62×51mm NATO. The Army had anticipated sending the upgraded weapons to deployed snipers in late 2010, but later expected fielding would happen in January 2011. After winning a competitive bidding process, Remington was awarded the production contract for up to 3,600 weapons. It is derived from and replaced the M24 Sniper Weapon System, and was designed to give snipers longer range in the mountainous and desert terrain of the War in Afghanistan.
The M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle ( ESR), formerly known as the XM2010 and M24 Reconfigured Sniper Weapon System, is a sniper rifle developed by PEO Soldier for the United States Army. The M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle with tan color sound suppressor
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