Rhaawr! Sniper!

nope, more like a battle rifle

"Interesting, what are it's characteristics?"

semi auto, medium rate of fire, range is about 700 meters due to dissipation of the bolt, ammo is crystallized luminiferous aether(colloquially known as aether is serves the role of mana in my setting) held in the large tube in the stock with the smaller two acting both as flow buffers and can be used as a backup ammo reserve

"What is it's effectiveness?"

roughly the same as a .308 mag cartridge

Boom... head shot.

Hah

Although this looks amazing, if I were to criticize one quality, it would be the lack of iron sights. That's really going to limit how far away you can reliably hit something with it. There's also the lack of a trigger guard, which is a safety hazard. Then again, the lack of those things make it look like it was designed by someone who had gone straight from muzzle loading flintlocks to energy weapons, which was probably the intent.

that is in fact the intent
i've become a decent shot with sightless guns while playing borderlands

and the trigger is based from the crossbow style originally use by the first harquebus guns

ooo
sweet

last comment...you modeling skills are execillent! you've been rocking it...weapon style.