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brent65: It is called forward cant and the min. of angle built in to the mount has to go somewhere. You loose it in scope adjustment. Add in height above bore and you can...

Interesting, looks to be sitting awfully high and on a degreed/ canted base. Hard to zero would think. The source indicate why there is a current contract for MST-100 / Unertl 10x C3 scopes?

It is a French MAS grenade launcher.

RBurce,
The carbine has been refinished. The biggest key is the brazing showing thru the parkerizing on the sandwiched trigger guard. Other parts show to be rounded over and punch marks show finish...

Have two, both '71 conversions, both with out loops.

bearhunter, it has always been accepted that all 1917 manufacturers used their own parts, it has been written about in many reference books and to date no research has proved otherwise. The same with...

The barrels on WWII 98 mausers are also marked near top dead center on the shoulder at the chamber as 7.9, 7.91 or 7.92. All 3 observed on the same manufacture of rifle within the same year date...

For dismounting the tube:
1. Remove battery

2. Remove oscillator or ABC plug (red plug adaptor with ABC or oscillator and cap) under front screw on cap

3. Remove the knurled ring at the rear...

Peter,
You are quite welcome. Glad it all worked out.
Burrell

Peter,
Glad it has worked out so far... I am reaching back a few years now so all might not be just spot on. Having removed the retaining ring just behind the elevation ring and the elevation ring...

KAR 98a with the upper hanguard ring ground off. As manufactured caliber 7.92x57, 8mm Mauser, 8x57 all names for the same cartridge.

Peter,
Not a problem, if you get as far into it as the reticule they are very neat. Much like the reticule on an M84 scope. A flat glass plate with the posts made of metal foil either bonded on or...

The ocular lens assembly will unscrew from the rear of the scope body. The rear lense retaining ring on most are swaged in as I remember. Quite a few makers and not all of them are exactly the same....

Some more pics

https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/09/P9260159-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/09/P9260164-1.jpg
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Thanks for the post and links. Must say I have rifle envy. That must surely be one of the early CE experimentals for the LSR sniper that didnt make the grade or got held back and made into a rifle...

Very similar to the Frankford Arsenal experimental's for the 1903 around the same time with the forward external adjustments. Frankford went as far as to combine the off set mounting with a prism...

Sporterized but not cut up. All matching upper bottom metal does not match. Too far gone to save? Just a parts gun when your done? What's it worth? Is it real? The questions keep coming... First and...

Simon,
Fantastic! Thank you very much! Would love to see any you are willing to share. Quite elegant looking compared to standard No4(t) bracket. Makes you wonder if any were ever purchased on the...

Another varient on the Rifle No3 (P14) base. The picture posted in this thread and in the books "Without Warning" and "Out of Nowhere" has a base mounted on the side of the receiver that is clearly...

The P14 bracket/base appears to be a more solid wider "foot" affair without the fancy radius cut in the "foot." The '03 is setting more on sculpted, radiused "feet" and the p14 appears to be on...

Currently reading a book on the 1st Marine Para on Gavutu. One of the enlisted men wrote an acount of having to surrender a sword and Luger he had just taken off a Jap officer he captured. He...

Some pics for jmoore. I have a source for tubes and other small bits. If we could come up with an IWS body sans tube and or missing other bits we could do an interchangeability test. Peter, tube...