I can understand a margin so you can position your gadgets where it's comfortable for you, but the A3 and A4 epitomize excessive rails.
I can understand a margin so you can position your gadgets where it's comfortable for you, but the A3 and A4 epitomize excessive rails.
infantry use the rails. The main point is to have the space, like you said Warsaw, to position where it's best for you and it's easy to adjust on the fly. Most people I know who served usually had a PEQ device on the side and the vertical grip on the bottom. They honestly are completely practical for military purposes. They allow for super easy and quick modifications to your mounted devices and the space+all 4 sides allow for flexibility on the go. As for tor the top rail, again most of my friends I talked to had either an ACOG or some sort of optic on the top of the receiver. Rails make sense in a military environment. Outside of that it's just tacticool and fun looks.
Guys on Gunboards' sniper forum have been on a 91/30 PU rush since the recent glut of imports just trashed the market. One of them outshot a SWAT sniper the other day who was using some done-up tactical Remington or such, getting 3 sub-MOA groups from 6 even in shit weather conditions. He took a legit Kar98k HT sniper out the same day and struggled to get under 3 even with a perfect bore and cleaning the accessible lenses thoroughly, granted it was with ordinary ammo vs. match out of the 91/30, but holy lol.
$650, brutally simple Soviet rifle upstages $6K+, masterfully engineered German rifle. I'm half tempted to go post about it on Tripwire's forums since there are a few there who I know would explode upon seeing that.
http://ru-submarine.livejournal.com/17486.html - photos of the Project 941 Shark (NATO: Typhoon), as well as interior shots. I will never cease to be amazed by how fucking huge they are.
Wat. I'd never thought about doing that to a 9mm AR...
For those of you with Mausers, Classic Firearms has some really nice-looking Yugo 8mm in stock.
JG sales just got some Type 53 carbines in that are listed as 'used, good condition'.
http://www.jgsales.com/-p-2341.html
'Good condition' must be Chinese for 'previously used as tomato stakes'.
Finally nagged my parents into sending me some photos of the new donor bolt I got, since I am stuck up here trying to unfuck my shitty, mundane life rather than down appreciating my rifles. It's nicely done, but that's the problem... it's too nicely done, the handle itself looks meticulously worked over into a smooth bend. It could just be me, since I'm eyeballing it out of the rifle and without an original sniper bolt to compare it to side-by-side, but it just triggers that 'it looks off' instinct that's formed over the last year or so of being really yeah about 91/30 snipers. There is some noticeable variation between legit sniper bolts, but the overwhelming majority have that 'put over the edge of an anvil and wailed on with a mallet' look to them, since that's actually how they were made.
Who knows, once it's in the rifle it may look as though it was made for it. If not, I suppose I can always trade up eventually.
Last edited by rossmum; July 27th, 2012 at 06:28 AM.
Was at the store the other day and they had an original sniper with original matching bent boltThe scope didn't match but it also definitely was not a repro. $700
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