Nice 91/30! I need to go out and shoot mine again sometime soon. Been so damn busy lately, haven't shot anything besides my Ruger MK2 in months! Love the look of that scope. Is that a PU sniper scope? How much do they run now?
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1/3 MOA accuracy from the bench is still somthing that is just phenomenal. You hardly ever here of a rifle that accurate.
Vicious_Fish;2132683; said:
It is a 1943 PU sniper.. This one is unique for the scope. These particular alloy scopes where the earliest of the PU type and where only made in very small numbers. They proved inadequate for the field and where all replaced with the steel tube scopes. These alloy scopes where scrapped or otherwise discarded. Only surviving ones where either on guns that where never recalled or turned in during service and ran the whole war with it. Captured by the Finnish or Germans in 1942 or where pocketed by the sniper or armorer when the scopes where switched. Occasionally one also gets dredged out of a river or field. It is very very rare to find one of these scopes on a service rifle that is marked and assigned to the gun. On my rifle it is clear that the original scope issued on it was replaced with this one as the original scopes numbers have been rubbed out on the barrel. The mount however is the original issued mount. What faint traces of the scope # exist on the Barrel match faint traces of the scope # on the mount. The scope was replaced at some time and the mount was renumbered with the serial # of the rifle and scope. Late in the war and Post war it was common to instead of serial the scope to the gun to instead serial the mount to the scope and Gun. Other than this the gun has never been totally arsenal refurbished and retains original finish on the stock and on all metal except for the barrel shank where the Scope # was scrubbed. Why this scope was placed back on a service rifle is a total mystery...
Price of these guns is variable and depends on if it is a Unmodified sniper, a refurb sniper, a reproduction sniper or just an outright fake.
Unmodifed / non refurb snipers can range from $900 to $1500 on average. (This is what mine is) Arsenal refurbished range from $600 to $800, Reproduction $300 to $500 and outright fakes $300 to $700 to the unsuspecting. (To those that know how to ID them the seller should pay 300 to 700 to them, on ID, to totally bubba it Destroy it and eliminate it from the market...)
JD7.62;2132694; said:
I don't know why but this just does not shock me all that much... I know of some that shoot this pretty regularly. One of the Guys I shoot with owns a Finnish target rifle based on a Mosin that shoots this with handloads very frequently or close to it. Every match he beats everyone on the line...
I do think I finally have something to give him a run for his money with though.
new baby: L86 how sexy??? eo for close stuff i have susat as well, tho im waiting on a flip to side mount and 3x magnifier and i have a long rail for top so gona see how that works out for versatility first, if not the eo n magnifier can og on my seals inspired sopmod m4a1, pics when thats finished....
for now youll have to make do with he wee l86:
Velcro butt strap is to run it on single point sling to allow quick drop and access to side arm when moving hrouh builings, its used as a dmr not a support gun, and lots of what wee do is focused in cqb, fibua and 'fish'....
for now youll have to make do with he wee l86:
Velcro butt strap is to run it on single point sling to allow quick drop and access to side arm when moving hrouh builings, its used as a dmr not a support gun, and lots of what wee do is focused in cqb, fibua and 'fish'....
yeah Enfield sa80 was designated L85a1. Then came h&k revamp hence L85a2. This is The LSW or light support weapon, designated the l86a2. originally intended as squad light support and although does see action in this role even today on occasions it is primary used a DMR or designated marksman rifle a role which coupled with its standard issue susat x4 optical sight and great accuracy at 600m+ and the option of semi or auto fire it indeed is a wonderfully good dmr, add to that a barrel of approximately the length of the mighty h&k psg1 in a package just shorter than a m16 thanks to the bull pump design. its a masterpiece these days... see h&k revamp....
here is my collections so far......
ar 15 parts gun i made for under $700
S&W 5906 .9mm
700 win mag (coyote gun that i have had for a wile)
i also have (not pictured) a marlin model 60 .22lr, henry lever .22lr, mosburge bolt action .22lr (that was made before the manufactures had to start stamping serial numbers in their products) mossberg bolt .410, remington 870, .35 remington lever action (deer rifle)
im contemplating selling my .9mm when i turn 21 to get an xdm .45
ar 15 parts gun i made for under $700
S&W 5906 .9mm
700 win mag (coyote gun that i have had for a wile)
i also have (not pictured) a marlin model 60 .22lr, henry lever .22lr, mosburge bolt action .22lr (that was made before the manufactures had to start stamping serial numbers in their products) mossberg bolt .410, remington 870, .35 remington lever action (deer rifle)
im contemplating selling my .9mm when i turn 21 to get an xdm .45
