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  1. Sooter76

    MG34/MG42/MG3 vs PKM

    Making them CROWS compatible is not going to make them more accurate unless things have been seriously updated... The concept is solid but 100% speed: way too fucking fast, 50% speed: still to fucking fast, 10% speed, still too fast. 2% speed: too slow. Every time I had to do a gunnery with that...
  2. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Some 77,000 M96 Mausers were bought by Finland from Sweden in in 1940. They were mostly used by second line units, but some did see action.
  3. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Most sniper's, if they could, used heavier grain machine gun ammo as they found it more accurate... This of course only really applies to the German and American snipers as the Brit's and Finn's used heavy grain bullets in their infantry issued ammo. And yes, the D46 and especially the D166 is...
  4. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    I've actually never really understood the argument against recoil. Sure it's harsher than the 6.5 Swede or 8mm Mauser, but the only time I've ever had an issue with recoil was the one time I shot 1,000 rounds of 8mm Mauser, .30-06, .303 British, and 7.62x54r in a single day.
  5. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Yes and no... The Gew88 commission required the 8mm round, but with the development and adoption of the Gew98, Mauser also developed the 7x57. There was some debate about adopting the 7x57, but like MacArthur and the .276 Pedersen, the German Command decided they had too large a stockpile of 8mm...
  6. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Kinda depends on the rifle and standards... The minimum acceptable standards for the Lee Enfield was approximately 2 MOA. (They used different judging criteria, but that's what it works out to.) This was before being shipped to H&H for further accurizing and being scoped. Most real (T) rifles...
  7. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Do you mean the heavy barrel No1 MkIII that the Australians used or the No4 (T) thatbrest of the British and dominions used? I don’t have it in my possession now, but I have a repro being built currently. Bruce Dow did the conversion work and Brian Dick is currently doing the stock fitting.
  8. Sooter76

    Garand Grades

    I have a service grade that’s pretty nice and I would recommend that one. That said, I’ve heard of people ordering field grade rifles and getting one as good as a service grade. To a degree it seems a matter of luck of the draw.
  9. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    I think much of that is attributable to the Germans actually having a mature sniper program... Most of the rest of the world had to start from scratch after letting their programs lapse after the end of WWI.
  10. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    I have, and that isn't a comment on his skill or ability. Simo won a bunch of shooting competitions with his service rifle so he was obviously a great marksman. But one of the two reasons he stated for not using a scope was that he didn't want to have to raise his head up to what a scope would...
  11. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Thank you for that...
  12. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    I also think it says a lot about the range he was shooting from. This isn’t a knock on him, but I’m not sure you can call him a sniper in the sense of what we generally think of.
  13. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    It’s not that they’re bad it’s just there were better, or at least more sophisticated and better built, sniper rifles in use.
  14. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    That’s an interesting comparison. I’m a big fan of the M39 and when you consider that the minimum requirements for the (T) was 2 MOA i think they would be on par but to say the M39 is better I think would be a matter of comparing individual rifles.
  15. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    You’re misconstruing what is actually being said. It’s not that the dispersion tightens and gets smaller between 100 yards and 500 yards, it’s that the dispersion doesn’t enlarge to the same degree. The accuracy of the round doesn’t degrade as much over the same distance. A LE that prints 2” at...
  16. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    Lol... That it gets more accurate farther out isn’t the same thing as saying there aren’t better options.
  17. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    I don’t pretend to understand how it works... However, after the war the US Army tested the accuracy of all the major powers sniper rifles and found that the LE and the .303 groups tightened up farther out. If a rifle shot 2 MOA at 100 yards it might shoot 1.5 MOA at 400.
  18. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    The first generation of the no32 scope was originally meant for the Bren machine gun. Regardless it offered real in the field adjustment for the shooter. The point I was trying to make was that the strength of the 1903A1 was its scope, not the rifle itself. Rifle for rifle if all the WWII...
  19. Sooter76

    Finest Sniper Rifle of WWII?

    I have to respectfully disagree... The 1903A1 rifle the Marine Corps used was a perfectly ‘capable’ rifle topped with a scope that more than doubled the magnification of almost any other optic used by any other country. I think more than anything else the scope blinds many to how average the...
  20. Sooter76

    Swedish Mauser Stock Wood Question...

    So I’m looking at a couple different Swedish Mauser’s that all have different wood types for the stocks. The nicest looking one is Elm but having never handled an Elm stocked rifle I’m lost on the quality... Is Elm a good wood for gun stocks? Is there any reason to avoid it in comparison to...
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