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Addendum, despite being from a different period, Austrian Army exhibition of Arms somewhen early post 1955. It was either 460 or 480 of M1903A4 sniper rifles they were given by the US government as aid post WWII.
I had a set of grenade sights and carrying case for my Garand years ago. I don't remember ever seeing the sight mounted on the rifle before
I've seen it lots but wouldn't do it as they have no purpose to us. I had the sight complete and still in the paper wrap when I sold it 30 years later...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapper740
See, the difference is they actually had grenades to use that thing for, whereas most of us on these forums neither have the grenades nor the ranges to shoot them ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
I used the grenade launcher on an M1 at one point when I lived in the prairies to see how far an old launching cartridge would send it. Just a training grenade, went about two hundred yards launched high angle...but would never drill holes to ruin a stock in a collector piece.Quote:
Originally Posted by Promo
Of course the army didn't care...
I've still got a couple of post-war dummy M31 HEAT grenades kicking around.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
That's a lot of scope and a lot of recoil forces for Wiener schnappmontage.
Looks like Suhler Claw mount to me?Quote:
Originally Posted by Surpmil
Perhaps so. I was looking at this photo of the four rifles on display, but it is of course a different rifle and mount from that shown on the modified Springfield.
What I took at a glance to be the "button" on the lever of the schnappmontage may in fact be a clamping or windadge adjustment cross screw. The ring does look rather massive so that in itself would not suggest the schnappmontage, but some post war design. I can't think of any WWII designs with such a massive front ring.
Looking at it now much enlarged, it looks like the vertical portion extends over what appears to be the base, suggesting a male dovetail base with a tightening cross screw?
That rifle on the very right is a prototype to the SSG 98k, the first Austrian post WWII sniper rifle. That features a pre-variant of the SSG 98k mount, which is basically a wingnut that clamps the split bottom ring on a dovetail (with a deciated step in the dovetail as end position and to hold against recoil, basically the same idea that was re-used for the Steyr SSG69). Later scopes have had a split top.
Found another picture from the same place with other guns displayed, dated and location given. Therefore, this exhibition was at Truppenübungsplatz Döllersheim (nowadays "TÜPl Allentsteig) in 1957. That other picture shows MP M1 (Thompson), MP M3 (Grease Gun), MP40 (Schmeisser) and MP41 (PPSh41).Quote:
Originally Posted by Promo