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    Forgive me in advance for being potentially offensive in my ignorance...

    Number one, thanks for your service. Also, thanks for your first hand experience at the match and in combat. How did the Aussies do after their lost weapons? They were doing OK last check I had on the boards. I am not so sure we are in that major of a disagreement. There are major...
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    XM-3 Rifle

    CMP auctions can bring silly money. I bet this will be no exception. When an M40 can bring $36K watch out.
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    XM-3 Rifle

    Anybody ever considered why it is that a Remington needs to be trued, barrel to reciever? Anybody ever consider that a Savage, which can produce way under MOA out of the box and for a much beter price, need no such custom and expensive work? It has been this way for as long as I can remember...
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    XM-3 Rifle

    I have seen and talked with the Iron Brigade guys and Chandler quite a few times over the years. About 25 years ago they would have Carlos with them at local gun shows, at least I was told it was him, apparently as a business draw. Decent guys, I must say. I am not sure why CMP would sale...
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    James Yeager on Mosin Nagant PU (Language Warning!)

    I watched some of his other videos. The Alan Colmes interview was interesting. Sounds like he stuck his foot in his mouth and was ready to shoot at and overthrow the government. He got involved in the Bundy thing and got a bit radical. He back petaled quite a bit since then, including an...
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    James Yeager on Mosin Nagant PU (Language Warning!)

    That is one ignorant individual. No excuse for that degree of stupidity and he is on my "disregard his opinion list". If a Mosin can not shoot MOA or better how come I have a lots of targets showing just that, and as small as 0.39 inches at 100 yds, 5 shots? How come I have seen dozens of...
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    Springfield 1903/A1 Accuracy potential

    Thanks for checking Dan. Mine is in the back of the safe and hasn't seen light in a 3 or 4 years.
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    100 Years ago today

    Some good points Sirhr. To add, the army was yet to learn the value of "volume of fire" at the outbreak of WW2. They did figure it out in WW2 and unaimed, get their heads down, cover fire was widely used and not frowned upon in most cases. The numbers of round fired per hit went way up...
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    Springfield 1903/A1 Accuracy potential

    The L42A1 has a pretty darn heavy barrel, heavier than an M39 which has the heaviest barrel for a service rifle of its time. The L42 barrel is straight, no taper, 308/7.62 Nato. Magazine is 10 rd box much like any Enfield. It is essentially a jazzed up WW2 Enfield sniper with a new heavy...
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    Springfield 1903/A1 Accuracy potential

    Kraig, I do not think they allow the L42A1 in Vintage sniper matches. They were developed after the M40. I think they are too late/modern for VSM. Hang in there RA. It took me 35 plus years to collect my pile. Keep charging forward.
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    Forgive me in advance for being potentially offensive in my ignorance...

    Well, I am not sure of the 300 WM load designation that was recently developed for the military but I am told it has narrowed the advantage held by 338 LM quite a bit. I was not given the specifics but the source was about as good as one could hope to get it from. When the rifles were...
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    Springfield 1903/A1 Accuracy potential

    I am not Kraig but the L42A1 is a thing of beauty. I have one and have fired it a couple or three range trips. They are built on WW2 vintage No. 4 MkI sniper/TR(telescopic rifle) receivers and utilized the same No. 32 WW 2 era 4X scopes. Some consider these to be the best scopes of WW2...
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    Forgive me in advance for being potentially offensive in my ignorance...

    I made note in my post that a WW2 Army sniper, who used an A4 in WW2, was handed a modern US sniper and he shot the Replica A4 as well as the modern rifle. There is a video which is easy to find on the net/Youtube showing the whole process. You have a real world actual person who did just what...
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    Forgive me in advance for being potentially offensive in my ignorance...

    I agree. If the shooter can not shoot the PU he is not a good shooter unless he has modern equiptment, he is using poor ammo, the actions screws are too loose, the bore is excessively worn etc.. There is a reason since a good PU is a serious sniper rifle. Forum members here and elsewhere are...
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    Mauser 98k sniper replika

    Nice looking rifle. Good shooting. The replicas are the way to go for shooting.
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    Pedersen Device?

    Very nice box of ammo and more rare than the device. I have seen several of the Peterson Devices. There has been one on display at about every NGD day show, four times a year, for about 15 years. They hard to find, expensive, but not impossible. Price seems to range from $40-75K. There have...
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    My K98 PEM "Field Armorer" Build Update 7-31-14

    Your best bet, IMO, is to find one honestly represented on Gunbroker that has already been nicely converted to a replica sniper. The best conversions will be build on a Russian Capture with a very nice bore. That way an original K98 has not been messed up. You should find one in the...
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    Forgive me in advance for being potentially offensive in my ignorance...

    IMO sniper rifles of today are amazingly just a bit better than those of WW2, especially when weight and cost are considered. A good WW2 sniper rifle can do head shots at 300 yds pretty consistently and do a torso at 600 or more pretty consistently. They did this with 2.5-4X scopes, weight of...
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    Where the heck did all the No32 enfield scopes go?

    One just went in my safe from the weekend show. It is complete with mount and can. It was not cheap but not crazy expensive either. Get out there and look. Ebay is not the only source. Finding something requires work and my work paid off.
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    My K98 PEM "Field Armorer" Build Update 7-31-14

    Good work Brian. You are gonna enjoy that one. As we know, our expert K98 sniper guy has a RC that was a PEM not to mention a dug rifle like this. The PEM scope, of Zeiss design and built on Zeiss equiptment, may be the best sniper scope of WW2. It completely blows away the US scopes and...
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