Sniper Rifle

Sniper Rifles are highly accurate, often scoped rifles. They tend to have high accuracy, high critical damage, low fire rate, low magazine size, and long reload times, but make up for this by having extreme damage. At distance it is required to lead a moving target taking time to predict his usually eratic path. Sniper rifles are made by Atlas, Jakobs, Torgue, Maliwan and Vladof. They may also be semi-automatic with a faster reload time but lower damage and usually chews through ammo. These are from Dahl, Hyperion, S&S Munitions and Torgue. When a sniper rifle has an elemental effect waiting longer between shots increases the chance that the effect will occur.

Repeating and Semi-Automatic

 * Sniper - Balanced
 * Lance - Increased accuracy, Lower power?
 * Thunder - Lots of damage, smaller magazine

Repeating

 * Gamble - Lowered accuracy, 200% Critical Hit Damage (as opposed to 150%)
 * Hawkeye - Higher accuracy
 * Whitting's Elephant Gun - Unique weapon quest reward for Big Game Hunter

Legendary:
 * Atlas Cyclops "I have you in my eye, sir." - Extreme zoom and double bullet velocity
 * Jakobs Skullmasher "Makes their brains hurt" - Ridiculously damaging shotgun-sniper
 * Vladof Surkov "For the Motherland." - Fast reload speed
 * Maliwan Volcano "Pele demands a sacrifice!" - 100% chance to ignite enemy. Chance to deal splash fire damage.

Semi-Automatic
Legendary:
 * Wrath - Always elemental and always x3
 * Nailer - Unique weapon quest reward from House Hunting
 * Reaver's Edge - Unique weapon that drops when you kill Reaver
 * Rider - Unique weapon found in the hidden room in New Haven
 * S&S Orion "A hunter lives among the stars..." - Misses ricochet and split in three
 * Dahl Penetrator "Sniper killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?" - Fully Automatic
 * Torgue Cobra "I LIKE IT!" - 100% Chance of explosion, splash damage
 * Hyperion Invader "BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM" - 5 round burst

Trivia
Some sniper rifles may have rapid-fire abilities while scoped, and others have no attached scope at all, such as Whitting's Elephant Gun, and the Rider.