What’s the difference between a bolt action and assault rifle?
December 23rd, 2009 by eranio
I’m playing Call of Duty 3, and there are two achievements that deal with rifles.
One tells me to only use bolt action rifles, and the other says to use assault rifles.
I have saved the game right now, and I have a scoped Lee-Enfield and some German rifle. I used the same sort of weaponary, and I didn’t get the achievement.
So what is the difference between those two rifle types?
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December 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
It’s been a long time since I’ve played COD3, but bolt action rifles are rifles that require manually clearing the chamber after every shot. You should be able to see this in the firing animation. The Lee-Enfield is such a rifle, as well as the German KAR rifle.
As for assault weapons, it would be any weapon where a single trigger pull fires many rounds and is not a machine gun you deploy. I believe the Allied Greasegun and the Axis MP40 are both assault weapons.
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
A bolt action rifle fires one shot at a time and requires the shooter to reload a bullet using the bolt action after each shot. An assault rifle in that game can fire multiple shots without having to reload after each shot.
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
Bolt action=Sniper
Assault rifle=Machine gun, or a gun that isn’t a sniper or pistol.
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
The only thing the other answers don’ cover is this: If a rifle does not have select-fire (3-round burst or full-auto) it’s not an assault rifle, no matter what Bill, Hill, and Obama Bin Laden want you to think.
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
assault rifles are rifles that are built to sustain automatic fire like an SMG but retain the accuracy of a rifle. a bolt action rifle requires to to load a new round in the chamber after each shot by cocking the bolt. an example of the bolt action rifle would be a lee enfield and kar98k such as in COD3. an example of an assault rifle in that game would b an MP44.