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    M40 scope base project by LRI

    Speaking of "leash on the tolerances" of the scope mount. A local retired USMC MOS 2112 who built the M40A1 sniper rifles in the 1990s told me the Unertl mounts were typically a little long in the area shown by the arrow. He told they almost always had to file a little bit off the back of the...
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    2024 CMP Games 1954-1976 Vintage Sniper Rules

    Yes, technically speaking, all XM21s were bedded in wood stocks, per the US Amy M14 NM build guide (first released in 1968, and revised in 1970, and 71). The USGI fiberglass stock is way too flimsy and simply can't be bedded properly. Here's the XM21 on display at West Point. All XM21/M21...
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    2024 CMP Games 1954-1976 Vintage Sniper Rules

    Yes, as the historical record reflects that in 1965-66 (before the arrival of the M40s), the USMC snipers were using pre-64 Winchesters in Vietnam. (They never used any post-64s as sniper rifles, per the reference books). I think CMP is trying to reflect the historical record, and I have emailed...
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    2024 CMP Games 1954-1976 Vintage Sniper Rules

    Yep, I'll be trying that match in 2024 w/ my M40 replica...
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    I built original m40

    I’ll let Smiley comment, but the procurement history provides some info that you might find interesting. Below is what the Remington archives reflected re M40 sales to the US govt circa 1966-1969. As for different variations, I understand the 1966 M40 drawing was updated in 1968 and 1969, so the...
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    Lets see your USMC M40-M40A6!!!

    Nice display! Glad you displayed the two “late” M40s at the bottom of that picture - which are the 1968-1969 era M40s used by other branches (Navy, Air Force, misc US Arsenals). Very nice.
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    Restoration of a vintage 1962 Springfield Armory National Match M14 - the first year of NM M14s

    Three or four years ago with BATF approval, Bula and JRA were briefly welding-on USGI heels to blank commercial receivers. However, the quality of the welding job varied greatly, some customers were unhappy, and the relationship ended on reportedly poor terms. I think about 60 or 70 were...
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    Restoration of a vintage 1962 Springfield Armory National Match M14 - the first year of NM M14s

    Not a vintage sniper rifle project per se, but perhaps others will find this vintage M1A/M14 restoration project interesting...and I'll get to the sniper rifle aspect in a minute. First, here's pics of my favorite retro project of 2023. I visited a local FFL this summer that I used to frequent...
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    Christmas gift thread! Please read instructions to participate!

    M40
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    History of the SR25

    Digressing, and the link is long-gone, but back in 2011 or 2012 I copied a rather interesting technical history of the 7.62 NATO match cartridge. Long story short, there were issues in the early 200Xs that required changes to the powder charge and all this lead to the development of the Mk 316...
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    History of the SR25

    A bit more history. Gene Stoner reportedly designed the SR-25 during the summer of 1991 (while staying at his house up in Michigan, although his new employer, KAC was down in Florida). He took his original AR-10 design plus his original AR-15 design from the mid-1950s, combined various design...
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    Military Rimfires

    Yea, I can’t justify eBay prices for a 5-rd magazine.
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    Military Rimfires

    Pardon the digression, as this rifle is not a former military 22LR trainer rifle, but at least its a vintage 22 target rifle of the type that might have been used by top US military small-bore rifle teams back in the day. The Model 37s were likely too expensive to justify as trainers. The...
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    More not snipery, but vintage

    Ok, I'll add my pic of both vintage blades but with some snipery stuff too: SA M1s from 1940 (top) to 1945 (bottom). Pic shows the evolution of bayonets used on the M1s....
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    Lets argue about the M24

    Yea, back in 2015 or 16 I got lucky and bought the last RPA sight set that the late Mr Weber had. (He thought they were long gone when I called him, but he found one last set, and contacted me). He told me that it has a steel base and was leftover from the Army's M24 program. The current ones...
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    Lets argue about the M24

    A former US Army sniper who graduated from Ft Benning's sniper school in 2009 had to turn in his M24 in 2010 for it to be converted into an M2010. In 2015 he provided me with his old tool kit for my M24R. It came with two of basically everything. (The plastic bag behind the small Pelican case...
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    Lets argue about the M24

    Well, the procurement lifecycle for Big Army is pretty long, measured in years, two at a minimum. (The M24 procurement process lasted from 1986-1988, with the rifles finally procured in volume in 1989). In contrast, the USMC had been recycling their old 1966 era M40 receivers with the A1/A3/A5s...
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    Lets argue about the M24

    That is true. My theory? Glass-bedding. The M40A1/A3/A5 McMillan stocks were carefully glass bedded to the Remington actions by USMC MOS 2112s (Precision Weapon Armorers) beginning in the late 1970s. The sniper was not allowed to remove it from the stock - only an RTE/PWS trained USMC 2112 was...
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    Lets argue about the M24

    That may be right, but if I may digress a little bit to a 1981 article in the defunct Gung-Ho magazine on the then new USMC M40A1, it also specifies 65 in/lbs for the action screws. …and here’s the voodoo part… …just a random digression re this arcane topic. For clarification, the dead horse...
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    Lets argue about the M24

    FWIW: “The final lot of M72 was manufactured by Lake City AAP in 1968. LC also packaged the remaining ammunition from 1967 in 1968 cartons and boxes so you'll find some over-lap. …,The decision to stop the manufacture of M72 was mostly the result of declining demand due to the use of the...
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