Just got a GIBBS 1903A4 from AIM.Was on the waiting list since the SHOT SHOW,finally got the call and went up and picked it up.It looks like a museum
piece.The only thing missing is a leather lens cover.The scope knobs feel like
the real thing,unlike some other reproduction scopes I have or have seen.It comes in a hardshell case,copy of the orginial manual,1907 leather sling,and
a dust cover WW11 carring case.Its clearly marked by GIBBS so know one
should take it for a orginial,but of course that goes for collectors,everybody
else things its the real thing that I showed it too.Now if it would stop raining
here ,I will get it to the rifle range..I have some NM LAKE CITY brass,and M118 bullets,all loaded and ready to go.
The scope is a copy of a Weaver M73,earlly WW11 model.Its pretty bad to
think this is what the US issued to our snipers in WW11,and Hollywood showing a german sniper in a bell tower,betting shot right thru his rifle scope,
as in Saving Private Ryan.I missed getting the real thing about 20 years ago,and picked up a 1932 NM,1903 rifle instead.This completes my WW11
sniper collection,but of course I really never will be done.I don"t care if it is
a copy of the real thing,since the price of that is way too high.
Also picked up a C93 Century copy of the HK93,in .223 caliper.this rifle looks
like a real Hk93,I got lucky twice on that trip to AIM.Maybe with the ecomony
so bad they really upped the QC of their products.I read online that Century
did not make these,they just put there name on it.Eric at AIM,said the gun
trade is starting to finally slow down,and ammo and guns should star flowing
down the pipline pretty soon.Anybody know any place that can make the leather lens covers for a Weaver M73 scope?
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