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I was sort of bored today so I thought while not a sniper rifle, I would share one of my favorite Vintage rifles. This M1 Garand was picked up in March 1945 on the island of Iwo Jima by Major "Todd" Moore. Major Moore was a P51 Mustang Ace and was the 45th Fighter Squadron CO who was stationed...

I am still pulling documents on this rifle, so this will be a shorter post. Once I feel I have found as much as I can, I will post it in detail. But in 1927 the receiver of this rifle was a Marine International Match rifle. The Marines also called these rifles, Free High Pressure rifles...

This rifle stands a very good chance of being at the beginning of the Marine Corps Sniper program. Not only is it likely this receiver was in the first shipment of M1903 rifles to the Marines, but it is also very likely this is one of the very first Marine Corps Sniper rifles. Except for a few...

I actually encountered something that I had never seen before, so I thought if I hadn't seen one others might find this interesting as well. This is the backstory: In early 1943, the Lyman Alaskan scope was actually the front runner to be used on the M1903A4. Ordnance wanted to name the...

I was hoping someone might have the email for LtCol Chandler. His old emails from Iron Brigade are no longer active. Anyone have a current email address for him?

I'm getting closer to getting my collection complete. There are still a few variations of the 1903 sniper I wouldn't mind adding, but it's getting closer. It's taken me about 10 yrs to put this together. All rifles are real and not clones. A lot I actually pulled the actual documents from...

I'm starting a new research project so if you have one of these rifles please contact me. There has to be more of these out there. The Marines built 40 of these for Sniper Training around May 1941. Which 20 (each) went to the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions. Then the Marines built 80, forty each...

Every once in a while I come across something that I just think is really special. This is one of those items. I was contacted by someone who said they had a really salty USMC Unertl they wanted to sell. I was interested as usually almost all Unertl scopes found look NOS. Ones that look...

Every book notates the 373 sent to the Marines on May 29th 1942. These rifles were ordered on 4/13/42 by WRA docs. The books all state these are the rifles that later became team rifles and then became snipers in Vietnam. But several years back we found this document dated Nov 1944 directing...

* It's going to make me post multiple messages to get all the pics of the documents in, so please bear with me. Several years back I started a case study on the WWI Marine and Army A5 Sniper rifles. Everything I read in the books didn't seem to match up with what little info I could find on...

I'm not sure if this is a well known pic or not. But I was looking for something else and saw it. I know I have seen this one before but can't remember where. But that is for sure a standard barrel model 70. It is not the medium heavy that you see in most of the other sniper pics. I...

Andrew Stolinski found these pics in the National Archives in a 1923 Telescopic Musket sight report for the US Army. It was basically detailing all the potention sniper/target variants that were out there. It's intersting to note that these rifles are total bubba jobs. A 1917 bolt handle...

I sort of hijacked PmClaines thread the other day, but heck maybe some of you might be interested in this. Several years back I got interested in the Winchester A5 snipers from WWI. And reading the books that have been written on them, usually you will find a one or two sentence paragraph...

I've never really shown this over here. But I was sort of bored today, and thought it might spark some discussion. And maybe kick up some original rifles that I'm not aware of yet. I keep a log of all known rifles, so if you have one, contact me. :) This rifle was original a National Match...

A small group of us have been conducting a case study of real Marine Unertl sniper rifles for several years now and are always on the hunt for more to add to the list. If you have a real one and want to see how it compares with the rest please feel free to contact me. We have also pulled out...

I was looking for a nice 3x9 scope for my target .22 at a gunshow today and I saw a Redfiend with target knobs. I've never seen one like this on a vintage redfield so I picked it up and looked at it and it had RT-6 which looks electropenciled on the bottom of the scope. About everytime I've...