MK.III Sniper Clone

[steveu]

All,
Here is a link to the picture gallery of a Sniper Clone that I helped my good friend AGB-1 with.
https://www.milsurps.com/vbpicgaller...do=view&g=1306

It is a clone of the one that is on Forgotten Weapons with the Winchester A5 scope. It is sporting a Malcolm 3X scope with Steve Earle bases that HRH Combat Arms in Fort Worth mounted properly. It is about 98% finished. I need to clean up the hole for the front base in the handguard, repair a crack in the handguard with some epoxy and clean the barreled action and wax it. I free floated the barrel channel also. The action screws are torqued to 35ip. I did a ladder test with N140 and was getting a good group with 39 grains. I did not pursue that powder because I got to thinking about the length of the barrel and thought that N160 would be a better choice. After another ladder test, 44 grains of N160 came out on top. I only shot 4 rounds to conserve the .313" 185 FMJBT's that I have. The bullets and cases were weighed to 1 grain group. Cases are Remington's that are neck sized and expanded with a .310" ball. Primers were WW 8 1/2-120 LR.
The barrel has some light pitting that can be seen with a bore scope, but is bright to the eye. The throat looks very good for a 100+ year old rifle.

It should be a fine shooter in the next Vintage Sniper Match next month!

Cheers,
Steve

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