Rifle (RE4)

The Bolt Action Rifle (Springfield M1903A4) is the first of two sniper rifles in Resident Evil 4. It is purchased from the Merchant for 12,000 pesetas. It can be equipped with a custom scope for extremely long-range sniping for 7,000 pesetas. Additionally, a thermal imaging scope is found on the island base, and is especially useful against all varieties of Regenerator.

The Bolt Action Rifle takes up 9 spaces (9x1) of Leon's inventory. The custom and thermal scopes take up 3 spaces (3x1) each.

To start, it has a firepower of 4.0, can fire every 2.73 seconds, takes 4.00 seconds to reload, and has a capacity of 5 rounds. As a bolt-action rifle, the bolt must be manually operated after each shot, taking the player out of aiming mode.

Fully upgraded, it has a firepower of 12.0, can fire every 2.73 seconds, takes 2.33 seconds to reload, and has a capacity of 18 rounds. The Bolt Action Rifle costs 289,000 pesetas to fully upgrade (296,000 including the custom scope).

Its exclusive upgrade increases its firepower to 18.0 in the Japanese and US Gamecube versions, making the Semi-Auto rifle by far the better weapon, while in the PAL Gamecube, PS2 and Wii versions it increases to 30.0. This makes it more powerful than a Broken Butterfly with everything bought but the exclusive (and while using the vastly more common rifle ammo), and twice as powerful as the semi-auto rifle.

Trivia
The M1903A4 originally fires the bigger, more powerful .30-06 round, but the game designers changed it to the smaller .223 Remington.