Scopes on M1A1 ???

[Dingo1]

Hi. I have resently seen a few original M1A1 stocks with cut outs fore some kind of optikk mounts. I wonder if the are all made after ww2 or can some of them had some kind of optiks during ww2?. I have seen a picture once of a British soe agent with an M1A1, with something that looks like an ZF41 Scope. Have anyone seen ore heard of something like this? my guess is that somene altered theyr owne guns ?

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[browningautorifle]

Can't imagine putting anything on a high grade target rifle like that. Not sure it would be the most stable platform...minute of barndoor...

[Dingo1]

yes it is a shame, but i have seen it on a few of them now, .

[Bruce McAskill]

It was not done by the US military. They did have the M3 sniper scopes on regular stocked carbines but not M1A1's Can you post some photos of those stocks that have been modified?

[browningautorifle]

yes it is a shame

I think you miss my smart a*s reply... As stated the military didn't do that because those are for parachutists not target shooting. No one in their right mind would scope one. For anything.

[Dingo1]

I think you miss my smart a*s reply... As stated the military didn't do that because those are for parachutists not target shooting. No one in their right mind would scope one. For anything.

Yes my thought also

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It was not done by the US military. They did have the M3 sniper scopes on regular stocked carbines but not M1A1's Can you post some photos of those stocks that have been modified?

I will take some pics

[GeeRam]

I have seen a picture once of a British soe agent with an M1A1, with something that looks like an ZF41 Scope. Have anyone seen ore heard of something like this?

Not an SOE agent, it was a M1A1 supplied to Norwegian Resistance during the war and modified by them by the fitting of a ZF-41 scope from a K98k somehow to or through a hole in the top handguard.
This carbine was presented to Major General Sir Colin Gubbins after the war by members of the Norwegian Resistance and is now on display at the Imperial War Museum in London.

[USGI]

Here's a picture of the M1A1 at the Imperial War Museum. - Bob

[browningautorifle]

That one a one off? We never did get pics of the other one.

[USGI]

Here's a link to the article where I found the picture. - Bob

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...l-scout-scope/