so turns out when you change an explosive projectile to a ballistic you lose a fuck load of damage even if there is no damage in the explosion.
on top of that apparently when you change the projectile it only takes the damage stats from the donor, so in order to buff the sniper rifle damage and keep the look of the railguns projectile I had to buff the railgun. so, if you like that thing I guess it's going to be cracked now.
railgun(same projectile as sniper rifle)
- standard damage 600-->1880
AMR (sniper rifle)