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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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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    Fwiw, pretty sure Ukriane is loading this aluminum tipped Hornady bullet with their long range sniper rifle. The listed G1 BC value kind of blows my mind… Fwiw, this appears to the super high-end Japanese Marxh scope that was used...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    This forum is not appropriate for a discussion re complex geopolitics. I do have opinions based on historical knowledge and family ties in central Europe, but I’ll just leave it at this post: I’m good with that...others not so much. Moving on…
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    Our own top military leadership briefed Congress behind closed doors in early Feb 2022, just before the invasion, and predicted that Ukraine's military would only be able to hold out for 72 hours at most against a full-scale Russian invasion. Gen. Milley gave them 3-days before the country would...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    Unless one thinks the 2017 record by a Canadian sniper was also “straight up propaganda,” it would seem the Ukrainian’s exceeded the old record by ~870 feet. Given the experience, equipment used, and supporting video evidence, it seems plausible to have beaten the previous record. Luck was still...
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    M1 Garands

    As others have noted, you'll want to go through CMP to get your first M1 Garand. The nice thing about getting an M1 Garand in 30-06 is that you can then compete with them in vintage rifle matches. This is a "JCG as-issued M1" match from years ago. It's 200 yards, and 3 positions. It doesn't...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    Frank, the owner of Bartlein Barrels, was contacted by the Ukrainians after the event and before it was publicly reported. They privately shared details with him of that shot, and sent him pics. Here's what Frank shared on the m14 forum. I suspect this is legit, the only unknown thing is whether...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    For those who doubt it, there is a legit video taken at the time. That is how the 9 second bullet flight time has been validated. What has been reported has not been contradicted via any contrary facts. The Russian on the far right is the one who immediately doubled over. The other two on the...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    I recall from the Hollywood movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’ that during the Battle of Stalingrad circa 1942, Russia famously using Vasily Zaitsev for propaganda purposes in those dark early days of the war. Unlike some other details of that movie, I think that aspect was historically accurate. All...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    Well, I’ll let Frank of Bartlein barrels chime-in, but the Ukrainians did contact him and ordered a “large quantity” of those barrels before the story broke…so the fact patten is there. Frank does sometimes post here on the vintage rifle section, hence my post here. Over in the m14 forum he...
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    The Russians definitely aren’t going to validate whatever happened that day. Regardless, I’ve made a mental note to never invade Ukraine, as even the old guys will volunteer to become snipers…
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    Ukrainian sniper who claims new world record. He’s 58 years old. (WSJ article)

    Not a vintage sniper rifle topic, but an interesting article on the 58-year old Ukrainian sniper who likely set a new wartime record. Domestic Ukrainian rifle with a US Bartlein barrel and a Japanese March-FX scope, looks like a 4-40x52 Genesis version. Ammunition was custom made in Ukraine...
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