My favorite firearm thread!

[BlackHawk]

I openned this thread so everyone puts pictures and some
details about one of his/her favorite firearms.

I'll start with mine..........

M40A1 Sniper Rifle
```````````````
After beginning of the Vietnam war, US Marine corps decided to purchase some bolt action sniper rifles.


Caliber: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Win)
Length: 1117mm (M40A1)
Weight: 4.08 kg empty w/o scope; 6.57 kg complete weapon
Barrel Length: 660mm (M40); 610mm (M40A1)
Magazine Capacity: 5 rounds in detachable box magazine
Sight: Redfield 3-9X (M40); Unertl 10x with Mil-Dots and BDC (M40A1)
Stock: Remington one piece wooden (M40); McMillan fiberglass (M40A1)
Max Effective Range: 800 meters

M40's were used in Vietnam and in later companies with great success, proved itself reliable and deadly accurate weapons.

[MORTARDUDE]

Blackhawk :

Welcome aboard !! Were you a sniper ?

Larry

[Doc.2/47]

Wow!Nifty!

Always thought those Redfield scopes would have done better if they had parallex adjustment,your's do ok without it?

Will it shoot into 1 MOA? 1/2 MOA?

[Keith_Hixson]

A 1903 Springfield. 30-06

Bishop Stock Glass Bedded
drilled and tapped for scope
3 - 9 power scope
Bent Bolt
Adjustable Trigger sits at 1.5 lbs of pull.

Put it together when I was twenty years old. Back in 1966.

Have a couple of other rifles but I know this one from way back and we are friends.

Keith Hixson

[ArtySgt]

I shoot Military Rifles, mostly from World War 2. I have one .308 in enfield style made in India during the late 60's. Also have several Mausers which are fun to shoot. Only have one scoped rifle which is a SSG 97 in 7.62X 54 caliber, suppose to be good out to 700 yards but who knows........

[Keith_Hixson]

What is your trigger pull setting.

I find that having a target rifle / sniper rifle trigger pull really makes for greater accuracy. The less squeeze the less jerk the more accurate. I like 1.5 lbs to 2 lbs. I believe that the standard off the rack trigger pull is around 6 lbs. (I think someone told me that somewhere or sometime).

Keith

[colmurph]

I liked the M-14 with a Unertl scope.

[usmcsgt65]

1966, 5th Marine Scout/Snipers. I was one of the original members when the Marines decided to bring back snipers. Were you of the 7th Marine snipers?

[Beldan]

I agree with ColMurph and Blackhawk M40A1 and M-14 were and are excellent rifles.

I think only the Army scoped the M-14 . Good idea !

The rains on the DMZ were hard on the Redfield 3 x9 Variables mounted on the Remington .