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Allerberger's book has been out for a while and Voices of Russian Snipers is relatively new. Hence the lack of reviews. As it is fresh new material, I liked it better than Voices of Snipers...

LOL @ myself. I thought you underlined and didn't realize it was a link. We read the same one then. There's actually information in her diary if you know how to interpret it. I mentioned it in my...

Page 72 of Allerberger only mentions that an optics factory was supplied during the era of Weimar-Soviet cooperation. Generally the Germans went to the Soviet Union to instruct the Soviets and not...

@Surpmil - check out Voices of Russian Snipers by Drabkin. Andrey Ulanov writes a very good essay, Stalkers of the Enemy that constitutes Chapter 1. It covers early attempts to learn sniping in the...

In the post-WW I era, Australia made some heavy barrel target rifles with nicer sights for civilian competition. These were pressed into service as sniper rifles (unscoped) and Winchester produced...

I'll have to find the action.

"In 1921, the Small Arms Commitee ordered that all SMLE rifles be sent to Weedon for parts cannibalisation and scrapping. It is recorded that 9,788 of these rifles were stripped, their telescopes and...

He does make that statement, but unfortunately does not cite his sources.



Until the PE was produced, there were no issued scope or scopes in the Red Army. Only the NKVD had scopes and all of...

I seriously doubt if any consideration was given to the Ross rifle. While its straight pull bolt was easy to operate, that it jammed made it less reliable. As for the P14 rifle, why bother even...

I doubt if the Soviets would consider any rifle for sniping other than the M91/30. They would have to tool up to produce a foreign rifle and why bother when they were happy with the M91/30? They...

Upon further reflection, those Ross sniper rifles may have been either captured or abandoned when the Canadians withdrew from the Polar Bear Expedition in Siberia. I don't know enough about Canadian...

Other than the cinematic evidence I have not seen any documentation on the White Russians being supplied with scoped rifles; but I find it hard to believe that the Soviets would resort to providing a...

Sniper was produced by Timoshenko in 1931. Gotta love that opening scene where the bagpipeless Scottish Band is marching to the tune of It's Long Way to Tipperary. Yes, it is a propaganda flick...

Without any citable sources, I am skeptical that the Soviets were trained in sniping by the Reichswehr. Remember the Soviets were poor and that they didn't acquire scopes until the NKVD decided it...

So without citation of sources, it's conjecture then? I know the Soviets got hold of Hesketh Prichard's Sniping In France and studied that assudiously and had ghillie suits (complete with netting...

@Surpmil - I know the Soviets and the Germans had a secret military pact, but can you please cite your source that sniping instruction was included? You are correct in that Zeiss set up an optics...

The entire 1933 Soviet Sniper Manual is now available. Of course, there's other material a lot of which will be of interest to collectors, conservators and curators who have WW II sniping ...