Newly bought 1943 T sniper.

[Peter Laidler]

Z28...... ANY bloody scope will be correct for your rifle for heavens sake. Wer're talking about a battle rifle that's been through 100 Armourers shops in its life and ANY one of them could, might or would have changed a telescope to meet the needs of the moment, need of the sniper, the unit or theatre of operations at any time between 1943 and when it was sold off as surplus in the 50's(?)

[RobD]

If you got it for $1,143.18 you've done very well.
If it were mine, I'd take the varnish off with a chemical stripper and a soft bristle brush. The stock has already been sanded a lot, so no more scraping...

[Z28addiction]

I'm in the process of rubbing coats of linseed oil on it now. I used citristrip to take off the varnish. I would highly recommend it as it has little to no fumes and did an incredible job. All wiped off with paper towels and a mr clean erase pad. Few more pics of the barrel markings. Markings under hand guards. Pics during and after stock was stripped and the last pic of the stock is on coat 2 of linseed oil. The buttstock also has the matching stamp ill try and get a picture of it. The last pictures are just of my weaver k3 a d repro mount. Enjoy.

[Z28addiction]

So she's finally finished! Extremely pleased with how she turned out! Also a picture of the end of the stamped buttstock and the dfc markings electropenciled in the gun. Possible armorers marks after it left the war. Love the scope also. Will deff get me by till I find a real one. Enjoy!

[brnom2]

In regards the eye relief from the scope the way you've set it up, IMHO it looks like you will possibly be wearing scope shaped indents in your eyebrow or having to position your head almost at the end of the butt stock - would it not be better to position the weaver with the turrets ahead of the front ring on the mount - only my opinion of course, but that what I've done with same scope/mount arrangement.

[Z28addiction]

Yea I'm going to try that tonight. So hard to tell where I'm comfortable when I'm not actually shooting. I did pick up a super nice 1918 dated us 1907 sling for it.

[Z28addiction]

Moved the scope back. It just barely squeezed in there lol. Also has anyone seen a stock like this one. It matches the gun but the buttstock and upper hand guards look walnut but the bottom stock and cheek piece look to be beach wood. I read that the cheek pieces are beach.

[Peter Laidler]

We used to get all variations of colour as spare parts into the Armourers shops. We had a stain formula to match it all up if you couldn't get a reasonable match by selection. Your rifle wouldn't get passed like that, believe me.

[snipershot1944]

I have found Minwax English Chestnut stain gives a pretty close match to the original look on the rifle stocks.

[Z28addiction]

Would I be able to rub that winwax over the linseed oil?