Today we are taking the Remington M1903A4 out to the range for some shooting. This was the standard US sniper rifle during World War Two, and I’m curious to see how one actually handles…
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The Remington 03A3 I have is a tackdriver.
My Original Springfield 1903A1/ USMC M1941 sniper rifle that I bought in 1967
has never been beaten in our local CBA Vin Mil cast bullet matches
Is that a French casque I see?
I suspect the most practical way to shoot the M1903a4 sniper rifle is by using obsolete old-school rifle doctrine: by making use of the magazine cutoff.
So the rifle is used as a single-shot weapon, preserving the loaded magazine for emergency firepower. That unusual magazine-cutoff feature could make the M1903 rifle one of the more practical scoped sniper-conversions of Mauser-type standard military rifles.
Looks like it. same one he was wearing in his promo on WWII American Weapons.
Seen a couple of “Casques” pop up in WWII you tube Videos, really obvious when other actors wearing proper US ones.
this is new (to me) awaiting moderation?
I read that the US had over 2 million M1917s in storage before WWII. I read that those rifles kept the Enfield rifling. I have had an M1917 that had that rifling, I believe so anyway, and it was superbly accurate. It begs the question why did not the Army use them as a basis for a sniper rifle? It is easy to make a scope mount for the weapon, (S-K Instamount).
What a sad joke that scope was. Townsend Whelan’s book “Telescopic Rifle Sights” of 1943 tries to puff it up, but it’s more suited to a kid’s BB gun.