When does it become Vintage?

[NavyshooterM40]

What defines Vintage? Why is the M40 vintage and not the M-24?

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I don't think there is a 'cutoff' here. But most of what folks look at here is a generation or two removed from state-of-the-art and extends all the way back to... whenever.

Sorry for fuzzifying the muddification, but it's one of those 'know it when you see it' kinds of areas on SH.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[slothlacrosse]

What defines Vintage? Why is the M40 vintage and not the M-24?

The optics and the stocks would be the biggest difference between the two rifles. A Leupold Mark 4 and an HS Precision stock are leaps and bounds beyond a Redfield Accurange 3-9x and a piece of walnut.

 

[fry]

thought vintage was something fifty years old?

 

[NavyshooterM40]

It's nice to know, I am vintage! So for an M-40 to be Vintage it needs to be in a wooden stock?

 

[Timberwolf]

IIRC under the present CMP rules its for sniper rifles through the Korean War.