Addendum, despite being from a different period, Austrian Army exhibition of Arms somewhen early post 1955. It was either 460 or 480 of M1903A4 sniper rifles they were given by the US government as aid post WWII.
I don't remember ever seeing the sight mounted on the rifle before
I've seen it lots but wouldn't do it as they have no purpose to us. I had the sight complete and still in the paper wrap when I sold it 30 years later...
I've seen it lots but wouldn't do it as they have no purpose to us.
See, the difference is they actually had grenades to use that thing for, whereas most of us on these forums neither have the grenades nor the ranges to shoot them .
whereas most of us on these forums neither have the grenades nor the ranges to shoot them .
I used the grenade launcher on an M1 at one point when I lived in the prairies to see how far an old launching cartridge would send it. Just a training grenade, went about two hundred yards launched high angle...but would never drill holes to ruin a stock in a collector piece.
I used the grenade launcher on an M1 at one point when I lived in the prairies to see how far an old launching cartridge would send it. Just a training grenade, went about two hundred yards launched high angle...but would never drill holes to ruin a stock in a collector piece.
Of course the army didn't care...
I've still got a couple of post-war dummy M31 HEAT grenades kicking around.
That's a lot of scope and a lot of recoil forces for Wiener schnappmontage.
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Perhaps so. I was looking at this photo of the four rifles on display, but it is of course a different rifle and mount from that shown on the modified Springfield.
What I took at a glance to be the "button" on the lever of the schnappmontage may in fact be a clamping or windadge adjustment cross screw. The ring does look rather massive so that in itself would not suggest the schnappmontage, but some post war design. I can't think of any WWII designs with such a massive front ring.
Looking at it now much enlarged, it looks like the vertical portion extends over what appears to be the base, suggesting a male dovetail base with a tightening cross screw?
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