Recent content by harlikwin

AFAIK, the Mausers were mainly exported and used by police forces, and the IDF and not the Bundeswehr. As for the interviewing ex-Nazis, it was quite popular with the US military in the 60's and 70's to get insights into fighting the Soviets, however it came with a ton of ubermensch/untermensch...

I'd be in for one.

Woo necro-posting! So the history of German sniping back then is a bit complicated. They basically came out of WW2 defeated, and with very strongly enforced anti-Nazi bent. This in large part manifested as anti-elitism, because of course the Nazis were at the core elitists. So while the...

Yeah, most of the guys I've talked to weren't SF or anything fancy. One or two Spets guys tho. But the general impression I get is that the pipeline for most of the decent units was you were selected during basic training or pretty quickly thereafter being sent to your unit. Initial assessment...

Yeah, its pretty fucked. I was on the original pre-MAC list when they were to be in the like 3-5 range, which is frankly the upper end of what they are worth IMO. But well, we all know how that shitshow went. Missed out on the B&T ones too apparently, but there it was like 7k.

You can find 7N1 on gunjoker. Otherwise Prvi partizan makes some match grade 182gr stuff that might work well.

Yeah, Romania seems to be the odd guy out when it comes to combloc sniping, but then again, Ceausescu pretty much split from the Warpac back in 68 when he supported the Czechs in their revolt. Hence the development of the PSL in the first place AFAIK. Seems a bit weird they would hamstring...

I've seen the 87 manual which as I understand was an attempt to standardize training amongst different Army groups/divisions etc. And mostly based on the "good" training schools like the GSFG one. As I said there seems to have been a fair bit of variability in the training. But GFSG in the...

Well, similarly I've talked to a fair number of soviet era snipers and the part you have there is generally correct. I think the biggest thing is that there was a fair amount of variability in the soviet system and soviet army. If you were in GFSG, or VDV or some other decent unit, then you were...

Well, might as well necropost this to add a few things about these if anyone is interested. As pretty much everyone in this thread has realized, they can be decently accurate rifles with the vast majority shooting 1-2MOA, usually 1-1.5 MOA with 7N1 or decent ammuntion. During the cold war...

I've been looking for someone to do this for years and still haven't found a smith thats willing. Or to do a 7.62 conversion for a L42 clone.

So thoriated glass is no big deal when used on the front optics of anything cameras, binocs whatever. Alpha particles are stopped by like a few inches of air, a piece of paper etc. The problem comes when they are used on the eyepiece optics and its a half inch from your eye. High energy Xrays...

Nice score. I've got some 57E's, one tip, if your eyes start getting itchy after use, there is a very good chance they used thoriated glass on em. So I'd limit your use of em, lest you want eye cancer. If you have an alpha particle detector you can check it, but itchy/red eyes are the "poor...

Lol no. PAS-4 is not PVS-4... PAS-4 is gen0, Active IR unit from the 50s/60s.

Odd, my Scar20 seems significantly lighter than my Mk11mod0