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M40 scope base project by LRI

Great news everyone! I drove to South Dakota yesterday and met up with Chad, and now I have a great update to share with you guys about this reproduction M40A1 Unertl scope mount project!
Have any idea what the cost of these mounts will be.
Great news everyone! I drove to South Dakota yesterday and met up with Chad, and now I have a great update to share with you guys about this reproduction M40A1 Unertl scope mount project!
 
Maybe he’ll have time after that to wrap up his initial work on my project and get my parts I lent him back to me.

I’m getting the itch to get out and shoot that particular rifle.
 
I almost forgot to mention something else, Chad and I decided what the next project after these is going to be! Here's a few clues, maybe you guys can guess what the next reproduction part will be coming out in a few months:

● Made from steel
● USMC only, no other military branches used it
● As far as we can tell, no reproductions have ever been made
● Modern, not vintage
● Cloners should be EXTREMELY excited about this part
● The original parts have seen use in GWOT
● It looks like a fairly easy part to make, it's not complicated
● Things can attach to it
● It's fucking awesome!
● It's not a dikfer or henway or anything else like that
● Similar to a "blue waffle," <--- Google search the quoted phrase, go to the Google images tab and scroll through the images until you find what appears to be a USMC rifle part
● Don't do the above Google search, it's terrible, but this is a good way to mess with friends, lol
● We're going to be making exact replicas of the insanely rare, highly desirable USMC M14 DMR GG&G scope mount
● What reproduction parts do you want us to make after this one?
will the GG&G scope mounts get their own thread? i just picked up an older IBA M21/25 build, so now im wanting one.
 
I think getting JWIII to do a run of 100 is far more possible than USO doing a run of 500. Paging Skunk…
I posted a thread here somewhere a while ago to gauge interest. There didn’t seem to be much at the time.

If I remember correctly, and I can shoot him a text to confirm, John needed “no-shit commitment” for at least fifty scopes in order to entertain the project.

I think it’s definitely a possibility, but it’s gonna take some effort and list of maybe names/scopes wanted to get this rolling.
 
I posted a thread here somewhere a while ago to gauge interest. There didn’t seem to be much at the time.

If I remember correctly, and I can shoot him a text to confirm, John needed “no-shit commitment” for at least fifty scopes in order to entertain the project.

I think it’s definitely a possibility, but it’s gonna take some effort and list of maybe names/scopes wanted to get this rolling.
What was the price estimate? I’m 97% in.
 
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I posted a thread here somewhere a while ago to gauge interest. There didn’t seem to be much at the time.

If I remember correctly, and I can shoot him a text to confirm, John needed “no-shit commitment” for at least fifty scopes in order to entertain the project.

I think it’s definitely a possibility, but it’s gonna take some effort and list of maybe names/scopes wanted to get this rolling.
I'd be interested in the details, I must have missed this the first time around.
DW
 
I'd be interested in the details, I must have missed this the first time around.
DW
I’m not sure it was here in the vintage section.


What was the price estimate? I’m 97% in.
John and I never got that far into the conversation.

I think now that there are stocks and good mounts available, and guys can build truly nice M40A1’s, this may be more possible to facilitate.
 
I posted a thread here somewhere a while ago to gauge interest. There didn’t seem to be much at the time.

If I remember correctly, and I can shoot him a text to confirm, John needed “no-shit commitment” for at least fifty scopes in order to entertain the project.

I think it’s definitely a possibility, but it’s gonna take some effort and list of maybe names/scopes wanted to get this rolling.
I’d be in for two.
 
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I check this thread everytime I refresh the watched threads (generally multiple times a day) and one of you fools adds something to this thread. So far 3 or 4 times today. The best part? I have no intention of buying one! Just like to read about cool stuff and any time @LRI post a thread it's cool stuff.
 
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I've tried contacting Chad every now and then over the past month or 2, but no response. I hope he's alright and is just busy with work. Sorry that there's no update, Chad is always extremely busy at LRI and is even helping build the rifles himself. Either him or I will post updates when we have them, so no need to ask for updates. I just hope that there's progress on the mounts and I apologize for the long wait. We know that these mounts are highly anticipated, and I promise that they will be worth the wait!
 
I've tried contacting Chad every now and then over the past month or 2, but no response. I hope he's alright and is just busy with work. Sorry that there's no update, Chad is always extremely busy at LRI and is even helping build the rifles himself. Either him or I will post updates when we have them, so no need to ask for updates. I just hope that there's progress on the mounts and I apologize for the long wait. We know that these mounts are highly anticipated, and I promise that they will be worth the wait!
I’m trying to be patient. My old man will tell ya i’ve never had any patience 🤣


I Must learn patience especially for a lefty version…but I'm also so excited about this I’m like a squirrel on coffee.

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I've tried contacting Chad every now and then over the past month or 2, but no response. I hope he's alright and is just busy with work. Sorry that there's no update, Chad is always extremely busy at LRI and is even helping build the rifles himself. Either him or I will post updates when we have them, so no need to ask for updates. I just hope that there's progress on the mounts and I apologize for the long wait. We know that these mounts are highly anticipated, and I promise that they will be worth the wait!

I tried contacting him via text a little over a month ago to check on how he was coming along on a project he thought would only take a few weeks to get measurements from some parts I lent him to prototype off of.

The whole shop appeared really busy when I was there in person in February, so I’m trying not to pester them. At some point here within the next month I need my parts back though, so I’ll have to call and make the trip up to Sturgis. He mentioned a pretty big project coming up this spring for his business so I’m guessing he’s very busy right now.
 
any updates on these? kinda sucks that this is the only part thats holding me back from building my baby.
Base on reading the whole thread, these guys are getting updates to us as fast as they can. So we remain firmly seated in the hurry up and wait line. I know it’s a pain, but I appreciate them not pumping out halfass products to meet demand, I’ve got faith that when they do finally hit the market, we will all be satisfied.
 
i mean if chad figured out a way to make available a superior product on mainstream level, he would make a butt load of money just from the guys from this thread..and not to mention the whole country. your talking hundreds of thousands of $ at least