WWII Pacific USMC Snipers

[cplstevennorton]

like across a leg and all? I'll try to get a similar lap picture with my A4 this week. A bit of photo flip and rotate gives an idea with the stock photo. I'm pretty sold the original photo is a scant stock.

No you don't have to worry about posing it across someone's lap. If you can just get them in the same position I'm mostly curious on the shape of the pistol grip.

What Goerg says is correct though, not only on Sniper rifles but Marine M1903's in general. I have only ever seen one Scant stock in any Marine photo and several of us looked for years trying to find one. There is never a mention of ordering any of the Semi Pistol Grip stocks (Scant) in the Marine docs either. Other than the one pic, I have never found any other evidence of a Scant in the Marines. The pic we found was actually in a mid 1950's boot camp photo. It was just a stripped barreled action in a scant stock used as a bayonet trainer.

I did see this one pic online that is somewhat close. This one to me seems like the pistol grip area has more of a curve to it that the WWII pic. But it's not the best pic and not in the exact position to say 100%.

But yeah if you could post one in the same position that would be great. I appreciate everyone's help.