M1 Carbine With A M84 Scope?
Some guy brought in a M1 carbine with a M84 scope and the rings and wants my gunsmith friend to put it together,he claims they used this combo, in Korea and Vietnam,off the books maybe.We think he's full of you know what,but my friend asked me to check it out.The only thing I found is that early night vision scope that looks bigger than the whole gun,and is connected to some box of equipment on the ground.Those people are built small and did want and did prefer M1 carbines,and they did do alot of stuff off the books in the early 1960's,but I don't think this was one of them.I know the guy that built that stuff for the Marine Corps,Harold Johnson,3rd marine division,head armouer,but not what the army did.Anybody know anything about this? I do have the book"The long range war,sniping in Vietnam" which is about the army sniper program history,which has some stuff about the pre-1965 days,and the off the books stuff they used,but most of that book is about the M14 rifle.
