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    Weaver Scopes, US Navy Non-Sniper Usage

    Found some information on US Navy use of the Weaver 330 and 298 (29S ?) in a 1949 manual on boresighting equipment. Over the year various non-sniping uses for the Weavers have been postulated but the documentation was always thin. Here, at least, is one but probably not the onlt example

    I have also read that the Navy was in overall charge of optical instrument procurement during WW2. It appears that Weaver was involved in a lot of war work besides equipping the 03-A4's

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    i used to have some info on a mount for a M3 anti tank gun, that had a 330C as the sighting scope.
    iv seen other field mounts with Lymans and Weavers,
    have a interesting picture and some info on a M2 machine gun with a Unertle, and another with a Redfield 12 power scope attached for sniper use....wow....
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