Danish garand with ir device mount

[andreabert]

Thanks guys.
I already saw welded danish contract mount. The danish seller that sold me my m1 have one stripped.

But i never saw one like mine....

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Do you think it is possible to find that mount on sale somewhere?

[Bob Womack]

Here is an illustration from Edwin Tunis' book, Weapons, 1954:



Bob

[RCS]

I have seen and handled the M1 Rifle with I. R. scope, it is heavy, awkward and tends to lean to the left side. I also had the chance
many years ago to view the I.R. on a issue M1 carbine (not M2) during a dark night. range was very limited

[Bob Seijas]

A guy I worked with was a Marine sniper in Nam and was using the IR device on an M14. He was up in a tree scanning the woodline across a rice paddy when a round hit the IR unit dead center and knocked him out of the tree. The Charlie evidently had a Dragunov scope with IR detector so the unit was like shining a searchlight. If he had aimed a little below the light source he would have hit the Marine in the head. He never used it again.

[FlightRN]

Good Day All,
These pictures were provided by another collector (Andy Skizzo Bertelli). The chin weld (or higher) requirement appears to make a "precision" shot questionable. The m/65 scope data plate bears the crown and HTK markings indicating the Hærens Tekniske Korps, or Danish Army Technical Corps.

Regards,
Mike

[Ex Crab]

IR device used by the Danish army, but made in Germany. So I wonder if the Bundeswehr ever used it as well.