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    WWII 30-06 ammunition question

    FWIW, m2 ball has a much shorter and lighter bullet than M2 AP (1.125” vs 1.40”length). My guess is the longer AP had a better ballistic coefficient relative to the shorter M2 bullet. I also think velocity was marginally higher, despite the AP bullet weighing about 20 grains more, hence the...
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    WWII 30-06 ammunition question

    Wow. I’m quite gaga over that box. That small quantify of accuracy-tested standard M1 ammo was not issued in WW2 - but they were obviously used at the pre-WW2 National Matches, which were stopped in WW2 and restarted in 1953. Very neat box, thanks for sharing.
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    WWII 30-06 ammunition question

    M72 match 30-06 was not standardized until 1958. The US Army didn’t issue any match ammo for its snipers until the late 1960s in Vietnam (ie, 7.62 NATO/ M118 used with accurized M14s). Translation: No match ammo was used in WW2 or Korea. It came much later… I’m still looking for a box of M1...
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    Armscorp "M21" Marked M14 NM Semi-Automatic Rifle with ART II Scope

    ….Nice, congrats on getting that rifle. It looks nice. One nit pick in defense of the M21 service history, the Vietnam era scopes were called “AR-TELs” and were made in 1969. They lacked a separate adjustment for magnification and range, it was combined. The ART II scope fixed that issue with...
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    Kollmorgen Scopes

    The old 4x Kollmorgen Bear Cub scopes are pretty decent for being 60 plus years old. I have one on this M14A1 replica. The U.S. Army almost adopted them in the early 1950s to replace the obsolete 2.2x M84 scopes, but ultimately didn’t adopt them. The USMC of course adopted them as the MC-1 -...
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    safe load for M1903A1 / Unertl Rifle

    A real one with USMC documentation is easily $15k-20k here in the U.S., but most for sale are fake. Whereas a reproduction might be $2500 plus, if built with a new Criterion barrel, plus a new stock, carefully installed Steve Earle scope blocks, plus all the other gunsmithing required to...
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    Parker Hale M82 Clone

    Is this the PH accessory rail you need for that project? It’s made of steel, but I don’t think its correct for the M85 stock that I have. PM me if this is what you need for an M82/C3. (I think it’s the same rail seen in post #127).
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    Navy NSWC Crane M83

    The M83 is sort of a unicorn rifle and this thread has the only clone I have seen of this rifle. 0812 guns, thanks for the pics. Do we know what barrel Crane used 40 years ago re the M83? I might guess Hart Barrels, but that is pure speculation.
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    CMP auction, M40 circa 1968-69 (probably AF or Navy M40)

    You need to publish that book with a ton of your color pics(!), I suspect it would sell well. I’d be first in line to buy it. As for the CMP M40, my eyes might be deceiving me, but is that barrel marked “U W S?”? If “S” is the date code it’s 1969, but if “W” is the date code, then it’s...
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    CMP auction, M40 circa 1968-69 (probably AF or Navy M40)

    CMP has a complete Remington M700 rifle up for auction. My guess is an M40 ordered in either 1968 or 1969 (6.2M serial block), possibly ordered by the Air Force or Navy. Appears to have a 1972 dated barrel which I suspect was a replacement barrel. Has the post-1968 “7.62 NATO” marking on the...
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    CMP sold Unertl and USO MST-100 scopes

    Yes, DFA covers the delivery’s for the first batch circa 1980 until August 1988 (ending w/ serial number 1673). However, in 1992 the USMC ordered 100 new M700 receivers from Remington (C-prefix) and my guess is they possibly ordered more Unertl scopes as well (these would have serial number...
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    M40 barrel contours as I know it for now.....

    One book states that M40A1 barrels were sourced from the following: Atkinson & Marquart Rifle Company, Douglas Barrels, Hart Barrels, and Schneider Barrels. If that info is true, that might account for small variances seen circa 1977 to 2001. FWIW, the crowns were also machined by a human, so...
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    safe load for M1903A1 / Unertl Rifle

    What recipe did you use? Powder charge, brass and primer? I have some of those bullets, hence the question. I run moderate power loads at 300 and 600 yards with my old M1903. Often a 175 SMK with 46.5 to 46.7 grains of Varget will usually work. With 170 Lapuas, 46.5 to 47.0 grains of Varget...
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    PH M85

    Back in the mid-1980s Leupold learned that the US Army was looking for a replacement sniper rifle (to replace the old M21 and it's antiquated ART II scope). This lead them to develop three new tactical scopes with the then brand-new 30mm tube diameter. The M1 Ultra, M2 Ultra, and M3 Ultra. They...
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    Gifted something kinda cool….

    Sealed boxes are best for collection and display purposes. I’m still hunting for some 1969 dated M118 ammo boxes. However 1970 is still nice to display with an XM21 or M40 replica. These are 1963 boxes, so a little too early.
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    PH M85

    I should note that the 6x S&B L13A1 scope seen on that M85 in your post likely has the below reticle (thin horizontal line with thick post on the bottom). Again, this is what the British used, but M85s purchased by Brazil, Malaysia or Germany might have used different scopes & reticles.
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    PH M85

    The M85s were apparently often sold without optics, with the end customer supplying them. Some of the ZF84 and ZF95 Kalhes scopes I have seen used the 104 reticle shown below. …one day I hope to use my spare ZF95 on either an SSG-69, or preferably an Parker-Hale-ish M85. It has a Mil-Dot...
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    M70 with Unertl 8x/12x, mounting options?

    It's definitely work only a good gunsmith should attempt. The bases need to be installed at the proper height and placement on the barrel. I assume your rifle has what is called a "medium-heavy match" barrel, and the front scope base should be at proper height for that profile. Here's my pre-64...
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    Winchester Model 70: Need proof that the is was official used by army/police before '66.

    The last part of this sentence is key. The FBI did not field the M70 as a "standard weapon", anymore than the USMC fielded Remington M700s as a "standard service rifle" back in the 1960s. (The M40s were bought as dedicated sniper rifles with a 3-9x scope - not as iron sighted service rifle)...
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    Winchester Model 70: Need proof that the is was official used by army/police before '66.

    Outside a hyper specific Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to a specific FBI Field Office (there are 56 of them), I doubt even Skunk can provide any purchase or procurement “documentation” from 5 or 6 decades ago about some M70 rifles purchased by an FBI field office (or FBI HQ). It...
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