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    What is the Most Historically Significant Sniper Rifle?

    The Marine M1941 was an Infantry rifle that was hand fitted by Marine Armorers and not a match rifle. All of the WW11 scopes were prone to fogging. The Russian Sniper rifles were mainly used at closer range, mostly in city fighting. The M1941 was used in WW11, Korea and early in Vietnam, which...
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    F T/R Competition Alaska Rifle Club 2013 Mid-Range Matches

    The Alaska Mid-Range Regional will be this weekend, 6/22-23. It is both Prone (sling shooters) and F-Class and every one is welcome. It is at Pedneau Range, on Ft Rich.
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    What is the Most Historically Significant Sniper Rifle?

    I remember the shooting, and the first and second day, before they arrested Oswald, all of the media was saying that he had been shot with a 7.65 Argentine Mauser. Then, it was never mentioned again. I had been in the Airborne Infantry and that rifle made a lot of sense, but that 6.5 Carcano...
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    What is the Most Historically Significant Sniper Rifle?

    That is not so. The Marine Model 1941 Sniper Rifle was put together and fitted with the Unertl 8X rifle scope by Marine armorer's, to the Marine Corp design. They had already been making the 03 NM rifles for competition and based them on their experience with them. It was probably the best...
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    Advanced Marksmanship Hoping rifle when shooting with a bipod...

    One of my daughters is left eye dominate and she was having a lot of trouble learning to shoot a scoped rifle. When she told me, I didn't know about that, I re-set up her rifle using the scope rings with the see through on the bottom, look's like a double set of rings, and now she puts her cheek...
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    Lapua brass POI shift

    I shoot both Winchester and Lapua brass, in .308, and use the same load, bullet, primer, powder and bullet seating depth, and my Lapua loads are about 60 FPS faster than the Winchester, and my 200 yard zero is the same for both. I would think that if they were different at all, the Lapua loads...
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    My M40!!!

    Nice looking rifle. If there is a LR match on 6/22-23, you should shoot it. I don't know about the Marines, but at least in Alaska the 3 main Army bases are looking at cutting weekend range control, because of the Sequester budget problems. Also that's a good way to see if there are any bugs to...
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    F T/R Competition Alaska Rifle Club 2013 Mid-Range Matches

    The Alaska Mid-Range Regional has been moved to June 22/23, as Ft Rich does not know if the ranges will be available on the weekends, after July 8, because of the budget problems. We did not shoot the Vintage Sniper match, because we needed a minimum of 6 teams, to man the range and we only had...
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    1903-A4 Build Questions

    The surplus military stocks that are in unissued condition do not have the cartouches on them. I have bought 4 scant stocks, for fitting to the rifles I have worked on, and none of them had any. The books and articles that I have seen all stated that. They all came in the old original cardboard...
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    Critique my set up

    My M1A sits way high than that, and before I put the Karsten's cheek rest on it, it sucked with a scope, no matter how much padding was used. Now it works like a charm. You will probably have to order a cheek rest, and then you have to drill 2 holes in the stock, but they give you good...
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    Critique my set up

    Not really, if you have an adjustable cheek rest so when you shoulder the rifle, the scope is in line with your cheek weld. My target rifles have built in adjustable cheek rests, but I have 3 of the Karsten's on rifles. If you want to use a 50MM scope, it has to sit up high. My old hunting rifle...
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    Critique my set up

    Not really, if you have an adjustable cheek rest so when you shoulder the rifle, the scope is in line with your cheek weld. My target rifles have built in adjustable cheek rests, but I have 3 of the Karsten's on rifles. If you want to use a 50MM scope, it has to sit up high. My old hunting rifle...
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    .308 20" 1/10 or 26" 1/12 for 1000 yards?? ....did I make the right choice??

    When I first started Long Range (800, 900, 1000 yards) I used Federal Gold Match 175's out of a 27", 1/11 twist barrel and made Master the first time out. Using any .308 at 1000, you have to be able to read wind, or it will not work. After I worked up a load, I get 2780 out of my rifle, and it...
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    Critique my set up

    because of the 50MM, the scope sits pretty high. When you mount the stock, can you see right out of the scope, with a good cheek weld? If you put an adjustable cheek piece on your stock, like a Karsten's, it will help with a higher mounted scope, plus you could get higher rings, which would let...
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    .30-06 in Heavy Barrel Form?

    I bought a Model 70 target rifle, from 83, in .308 and had it rechambered to 06. It leaves a little line on the cases, but doesn't affect it at all and it shoots good. It is a long action that was chambered in .308, like most were before 84-85. I just got a new magazine, follower and spring from...
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    How do you range when hunting?

    I didn't think to mention it before, but if I am setting up with a lot of open views, I do a range card, in the notebook that I carry and range to things on the card, with my RF, like they taught in the Army, except the ranges are more accurate. Most of my friends are ex military, and you just...
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    How do you range when hunting?

    I have and old set of Bushnell Compact 800 and I could range trees at 600 yards, and most anything inside that. I got a surplus set of Military Elite 1500, that don't have all of the bells and whistles, they just range in yards or meters. I have ranged trees at over 1000 yards and High Power...
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    Who all's got a "Vintage Sniper Rifle"

    OK, I got my 2 03A4's done. Now how do I do the picture thing, to add them to this thread?
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    7mm wsm saum 284 winchester HELP!

    Turbo: There are 3 guys using them, one for 3 or 4 years, and none have changed their barrels yet. One guy has a new Bat action coming and him and his gunsmith are stripping his trued up M700 and using the barrel and anything else that will work. He has been shooting his in F-Class for about 2...
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    7mm wsm saum 284 winchester HELP!

    The other thing that happened with the .284 40X was that when I won the Alaska Mid-Range Regional with it I broke the Grand Senior (Old Peoples) Prone National Record, for the 300, 500 and 600 yards aggregate. The wind was blowing (like it usually does) and for the 2 days beat the F-Class High...
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