The sporting blaster rifle was a less lethal version of the blaster rifle that was popular with the galactic elite as well as among fringers living in isolated colonies.
Description[]
The sporting blaster rifle was the rifle version of the sporting blaster pistol. It was very similar to the hunting blaster.[3] They were primarily intended for game-hunting on frontier worlds with high wildlife populations.[3] They were light, easy to carry, and very accurate. Sporting blaster rifles had a shorter range and packed less power than a standard blaster rifle, though they had the advantage of being more affordable and required less bureaucratic hassle to obtain. As a result of this, the weapon became common with assassins and bounty hunters who were able to circumvent the legal restrictions against heavier rifles. Sporting blaster rifles often had a targeting scope mounted on them.[1]
Luke Skywalker kept a sporting blaster rifle in his landspeeder on Tatooine.[1] He had also used it to "bullseye womp rats in his T-16."[2]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: Battlefront II
"The Core of Corruption" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
"The Farrimmer Cafe" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 11 (as sporting rifle)
