I know pics of one has been shared on here before but here is one of the lesser known M40A3 variants. Circa 05-06’ M40A3 with McCann Industries SA MIRS rail and Nightforce 3.5-15 Mil-spec scope.
Lets see your USMC M40-M40A6!!!
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Shot my M40 replica in this month’s CMP Northeastern Games up in VT. It rained a lot during the Vintage Sniper Match, but still good times. (Its a 300 and 600 yard event with 15 second target exposures). Here’s 300 yard berm:
Won a gold in the afternoon Vietnam/Class B event with a team score of 394-17x. My shooting partner and I only dropped 3 points each, so that worked out well. Hope to do that CMP event again next year, if work and logistics allow it.
(FYI: Took it out of the stock to make sure there was no residual moisture from the rain)
Won a gold in the afternoon Vietnam/Class B event with a team score of 394-17x. My shooting partner and I only dropped 3 points each, so that worked out well. Hope to do that CMP event again next year, if work and logistics allow it.
(FYI: Took it out of the stock to make sure there was no residual moisture from the rain)
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I always wonder if I'm looking at my old A6 chassis went to a guy in AZ about 1.5 years ago
On edit: I was still thinking about A3s made in early 200xs, not the A1s that you noted. My oversight.
B67 or E67? I thought the “B” prefix was the early to mid-1980s era? The USMC reportedly bought their first post-Vietnam M700 receivers circa 1992, which were C-prefix. I took this picture at Quantico of what I’d guess to be one of the last of the A1s made, an E prefix with a July 2001 barrel install date…hence my confusion.
So I thought B-prefix was the approx (edit) 1980-87 era? Hence my confusion about Skunks picture…unless it was perhaps from an FBI M700 circa 1983 made in the Ray Sweet era?
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These are serial ranges for A1s built with new Remington actions that weren’t reused from original M40s
- B671xxxx
- B682xxxx
- C671xxxx
- E637xxxx
- E654xxxx
- E657xxxx
- E670xxxx
Thanks for that info. The Remington Society is now defunct, but they used to have access to the Remington archives and could provide serial number info. The old posts on their forum noted the B prefix was used during this specific era:
…Chander’s DFA books don’t mention them, so I might speculate the B-prefix receivers could have been some ad hoc 1980s era replacement M700 receivers that might have been ordered during the M40A1 era to replace a few of the original late 1960s era six-digit M700s receivers that had become tired and out of spec with high mileage and hard use…that’s my personal conjecture. It would be interesting to know how many B-prefixes were ordered in the 1980s.
Anyhow, it seems a few B prefix receivers made during the Reagan years snuck into the USMC inventory as shown in Skunk’s picture, but they are an enigma to me, given what has been published regarding USMC procurements from Remington. (For example, the ninety-nine M700 receivers ordered by the USMC in FY1992 are well known of course as the C-prefix receivers). Note: C prefix M700s were reportedly made from November 1987 into 1995; followed by the E prefix from mid-1995 to 2001, etc…per old posts re M700 production dates.
FWIW, here’s some random guy shooting that M40A1 with E670 prefix seen in post #861, circa May 2018. (The A1 that had a barrel install date of July 2001). The dirty lens in that Unertl scope were in dire need of professional cleaning…
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Yes the B prefix would be 80s time frame. Here’s a pic that may be familiar to you. A5s at quantico with those B prefix receivers, modded bolt knob in one, moa scopes and SASR rings.
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