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brit #4 sniper with green painted scope
Just seen this sniper for sale.never seen a green painted #32 scope before,scope was added to a less scope T.
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02-17-2012 05:24 PM
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I have a savage L42 rifle painted olive green. Snipers in use were often painted as required. I am sure Peter will have some caustic comments for the fellows who did it in the field. A number of the L42s imported by Navy Arms had their paint stripped off by a solvent bath. The wood has a unique feel afterwards.
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I have seen others and have two: one green and one camo (brown and OD)
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I owned a Brit #4 many years ago which had traces of paint on it here and there on the stock--dark yellow and green as memory serves me.
Ed
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On the sniper courses, they're taught/told not to paint their kit as it does absolutely nothing to aid true camouflage because whatever colour you paint it can only be any use as the general scheme of the background you remembered at the time. (just reading from sniper notes here so sorry if it all sounds a bit stilted.......) Additionally, paint does nothing to break up SHAPE or SILHOUETTE - especially with a telescope sticking up or around the side of a hide. The BEST means of camouflage is by wrapping hessian around the rifle and telescope, binos, boots, body etc etc. That's why they make hessian suits to wear
I don't want to be unkind or dampen the enthusiasm, but it was the younger snipers, fresh from their course who weren't allowed to daub paint everywhere who were the first to use paint when they got back. But soon realised that the course instructors who had generally done it all, were probably right anyway. Painted telescopes and rifles................
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Saw an early REL MkI that had been painted brown/OD, even the ocular sun-shade was painted.
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Peter - If you don't like painted 'scopes, how about this rifle?
Taken in somewhere Italy
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Regards
TonyE
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Originally Posted by
TonyE
Peter - If you don't like painted 'scopes, how about this rifle?
Taken in somewhere
Italy.
Regards
TonyE
The tip of the front pad is just visible.
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Edward Bernays, 1928
Much changes, much remains the same.
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Not sure if picture posting will work but I have a nice 41 Maltby, complete with green paint splodges. It would complement either of the painted scopes nicely! Here goes....
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