User blog comment:El Alamein/El Alamein Presents: A Glint in the Misty Morn - Season 3 Finale!/@comment-422690-20140812030025

So...

Rifles
5th place: The Sniper

The Sniper gets last place in terms of the rifles. Despite his larger magazine, his weakness comes in terms of his laser sight. Since there will be mist around here, the laser's going to be broken up and refracted. This makes it quite nicely visible to anyone looking around that area. In order for the sight to aid him at all, it will need to be on as he searches for his quarries. This is going to give a nice big line directly to the Sniper himself, severely hampering his ability to use the large magazine and long-range sights used with it.

4th place:

Vasily Zaytsev

This is manly due to how his scope is designed. In an interview with Simo Häyhä, he stated that the way Soviet scopes were designed and mounted forced the sniper to expose himself too much to use it. He cited this as one reason he used only iron sights in his rifle - a Finnish copy of Zaytsev's. This puts Zaystev in a similar boat to The Sniper - their weapons are all well and good for what they do, but the attachments they use put them in more danger than the advantages they afford.

TBC