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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Just seen this sniper for sale.never seen a green painted #32 scope before,scope was added to a less scope T.
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.
I have seen others and have two: one green and one camo (brown and OD)
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
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................
Saw an early REL MkI that had been painted brown/OD, even the ocular sun-shade was painted.
Peter - If you don't like painted 'scopes, how about this rifle?
Taken in somewhere Italy.
Regards
TonyE
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Originally Posted by TonyE
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....
Roger: your rifle looks like a LB No.4.....
Hmmm, I wonder if only Canadians had the balls to paint up their kit and not have to worry about some idiot British officer going berserk. It appears most of the painted kit is Canadian. I have another No.32 scope (REL) in straight green paint, and I know it was done during wartime by its provenance.
A #4T with matching scope showed up here in Alabama a few weeks back... it went through England at some point... stamped "England" on socket... a bit rough on the exterior... but all metal including the scope was at one time painted olive green... much has worn off or been scraped away in field use... about 80% paint surface remains... and a good amount of surface rust patina to show its age.. as well... looked right out of the jungle. I can get details if anyone wants them... I looked it over and all numbers and markings were matched and present.
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Originally Posted by WallyG.
Sure! But be prepared to do photos. Otherwise, it's just taunting.
BTW, isn't there a photo or two in The British Sniper, or The Lee-Enfield Story showing painted rifles? Haven't got them with me, so working from memory right now...
No taunting intended... but green paint seems to show up with some frequency - just noting another example.
A few years ago I had a chance to go through The Defense Technology Museum (Die Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung) in Koblenz. It is a collection of various German and other countries military technology from before 1900 until present (2011). It took a solid 5 hours to go though (and we were going pretty fast).
While there I took pictures of their No4(T) and in reviewing them, I noticed the scope and mount are painted. It doesn't match the rifle. What I also found interesting about this setup was that the buttstock had been significantly modified with the semi pistol grip sanded straight, but the metalwork was in VG condition.
Regards,
Michael
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