All good info Ed, I'd never given any of that thought as I just thought scopes were gassed or some such for ages... Makes sense though that even some of the user scopes lying around gunshows never...
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All good info Ed, I'd never given any of that thought as I just thought scopes were gassed or some such for ages... Makes sense though that even some of the user scopes lying around gunshows never...
That would be a bad thing, keep you from doing business. I'd never heard about it.
That would help. I wonder if cplstevennorton has any testimony, he's studied USMC use of 1903s extensively.
Letting a scope air out in the humid conditions of the pacific campaign would be...
That's the thing, someone here should know. I just can't see forcing the rings wide open to drop a scope in. I don't know if the scopes then were gas purged but if not how did they keep them from...
Did they REALLY do it that way when they were assembling them? I just wonder if they slid the rings on as they assembled the ocular lens and gassed them after the rings were slid on the scope tube?
It will, don't worry. That marking is clear enough.
Be interesting to see the comprehensive once it lands.