Highest Damage Marksman Rifle?

[Butter629]

Does anyone happen to know for sure which marksman rifle does the most base damage?  I am not factoring in rate of fire or reload time.  After searching a bit I thought it might be the Custom M44 but then I saw a Hunting M44 with much more damage.  Also whatever the rifle may be that does the most damage is there a named version of it?

 

[Zenifystone]

I'd say custom m44 , but it depends on how good your roll is. 

 

[MichFan]

I believe the Custom M44 is the better of the two between the Hunting and Custom because the Hunting version has one less mod slot to deal with if I am not mistaken. Personally I prefer the First Wave M1A to either as it packs just about as much punch as any bolt action in the game but is a magazine fed DMR. 

 

[Zenifystone]

I prefer the first wave m1a , currently have the purple one , haven't been lucky getting a gold drop and I missed out on that over powered version they had up for sale 

 

[Butter629]

After looking through the shops some more I think that the Classic or Hunting M44 do more base damage than the Custom M44 because I found a superior Custom M44 in the advanced weapon vendor with about 46k damage and 148% headshot damage and a superior Classic M44 with about 51k damage and 156% headshot damage.   Also how much base damage difference do you think that one less mod slot could make on the Hunting or Classic M44?  Thanks for the replies by the way.