Originally Posted by krnasaur
They had a pistol like this in WW2(or was it WW1? not 100% sure). At close range the bullet would bounce off of a person, but at long range it was deadly. It gun's design ended up failing because of how useless it was a close range combined it was only a single shot per reload.
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Gyrojet. Not only were they relatively ineffective up close, their maximum velocity at range topped out at about half the muzzle velocity of conventional rifles. The power of the handgun version was about 50% more than a .45. That sounds impressive but it isn't. A .45 is about 400 ft-lbs so the Gyrojet, at full speed, is 600 ft-lbs. A .50 is 1500. 2.5 times the Gyrojet without the need to produce complicated projectiles. This is only exacerbated by rifles where the top speed for the Gyrojet remains the same, around 1250 ft/s, whereas the muzzle velocity of anti-materiel rifles (judging by the size of the bolt driver cartridge) is 2800 ft/s. Gyrojets are interesting but the reality about their limitations means that they lose out to conventional weapons when calibers increase.
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Sway/breathing and charging do prevent "Quickscoping" but they dont really prevent people camping a hallway with a sniper rifle waiting for someone to turn the corner.
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I'm not sure that snipers in a long hall are a bad thing. You get one shot. A MA at the end of the hallway would still get the first shot and the full length of the hallway against anyone charging without having to give up any accuracy for movement.