restoring an 03A4

[Chuckindenver]

yup, A4 bolt

[Calfed]

Thanks, Chuck. I appreciate your willingness to share your expertise.

My sons and I got to the range to shoot it yesterday. After we determined that the A4 liked 180 grain Federal Powershoks better than the 150 grains, and a bit of tinkering with the Weaver 4X Marksman scope, my son put three into a 5 and 1/2 inch reactive target @ 100 yards. That is NOT going to make it any easier to take this nicely done sporter apart. I love an accurate rifle.



There was a fairly stiff left to right cross wind, so I figured this was pretty close to being dead on.

[Chuckindenver]

belive it or not, it will shoot better if done right, should have 5 inside a dime.
with 168GRN match ammo.
all my A4,s with good scopes will shoot inside a dime at 100 yards.

[Jim Tarleton]

My A4 has one drawback, that scope. Mercy, couldn't the Army follow the footsteps of the Marines and get a quality scope?

Jim

[Calfed]

Jim, what kind of scope did the Marines use? Maybe I'll restore it as a Marine sniper rifle.

[Chuckindenver]

the Marines used a 1903A1 sniper rifle, with a 8 powers Unertle Scope..
some A4,s were used by the Marines, but they used the same lame scope the Army did.

[Calfed]

Nuts!

I've got an 03 collector's book "The Collectable '03" by J.C. Harrison. It is thick spiral bound white book that has a lot of collectors information.

At any rate, on page 233 there is a drawing of a "MC-1" Kollmorgen 4X scope and indications that it might have been used on the A4's. I have a civilian 4X Kollmorgen scope that looks very similar to the MC-1 and was hoping that it was an alternate issue scope for the 03A4.

[Chuckindenver]

no Kollmorgans were used A4,s by the military..24MM rings are tough to find..
the only scope used on an A4 when issued is a Weaver 330C M73B1...
Harrisons book like all the books he wrote...is full of errors and some just plane BS.
i asked him about it once. he just smiled.
i gathered that if he wasnt sure, he would just make something up..

as for replacement scopes...
heres a list.
Weaver M8
Lyman AK.
Lyman M82 marked AK.
M84 made by Libby Glass.
Weaver K4-60-B. mostly used my law inforcement, and prison use..only ones o have seen, are in the RIA Museum, and they were donated by a PD or SO.
any other scope would been added by someone other then the military.