So I've had this rifle for about 2 months now and also finished sighting in my M41B and I wanted to do a competition between the two and this rifle clearly won. The rifle is a M1903a1 Marine Corps sniper clone built on a recovered drill rifle. The receiver is a Springfield 1927 in the 1.27m range. Barrel is a 12-44 High Standard that measures a 1 at the muzzle. Stock is a CMP C stock and the scope is the Malcom 8x. The circular steel target is at 300 yards and the silhouette is 500 yards. I amazed myself when I did a 2.48 inch group at 300 equaling .79 MOA using PPU. 500 wasn't sub MOA but I will take it. I went out again a few days later and while I didn't have the same amazing results, I still was impressed. I think my dope was a little off for 500 at 47 clicks so will try a little less next time as it was shooting high on the steel. The 2nd range session with this rifle have the black dot painted on the steel so I had a point to reference with the cross hairs. Very happy. Now the only issue is finding a vintage sniper match to compete in. At least Talladega is less than 6 hours away...
I think I found my competition rifle...
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Thats awesome! Looks like a gorgeous rifle too - did you put it together or did you have it built?
I was literally about to build one myself and this one popped up in the CMP forums for about 700 bucks cheaper than what it would have cost me to build it so I jumped. I already had my rifle picked out and everything.
