M1903 / A1 Sniper Rifle Scope Mounts

[cplstevennorton]

What dimensions are you trying to figure out? Like the dimenstions of the blocks or how they were installed on the rifle?

The handguards are all identical on real USMC 1903A1 Snipers. I took my real one over to the retired Professor of the Machine shop at Purdue University, and he is quite certain that the handguards were made on a horizontal Mill with a 3'' cutter.

He actually tried to make a few duplicates to see if he could duplicate the cut and they were identical in everyway.

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[usabaker]

What dimensions are you trying to figure out? Like the dimensions of the blocks or how they were installed on the rifle?

That's incredibly beautiful! I was curious as to how big the mounts were LxWxH and how the front and rear compared to each other, also the center to center distance between the mounting screw holes. Having never seen one in real life its the only way I can get a good picture in my mind. Your picture is the first great picture I've seen of just the mount and the handguard all the others have been angled side views at best.

That looks so good! LOL I watched an AGI video on YouTube and the guy flubbed up the rear mount and then tried to play it off "You can just grind or file off the end of the ring base so it will fit" type stuff. He made a video drilling and taping 1903 having never done it before, "following the instructions" I'd of been ticked-off if it was my rifle.

His handguard mount looked nothing like this or even clean.

Thanks for the picture the visual really helps.