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What I meant is Mother Russian army doctrine's change between a scoped Mosin in the hands of a fairly highly trained individual, member of "sniper divisions", picking up his own targets during WW2 or with the help of a spotter immediate post war vs a squaddie, with above average shooting skills, merely engaging targets on command within a regular Infantry fire group, role for which the SVD was specifically designed as far as I know ?

I think we are saying kinda the same thing but it drags us away from the current debate of this post, ie :
scoping a rare Mosin is for sure evil and fully deserves Siberian vacation but, at the same time, the result is 100% pleasant cheap thrill

Anyone on here have a M1903A4 real or repro, or even a M1903A1 Unertl.....??

They don't seem to be popular/common in UK?

I've got a straight pull M14 in M21 style, leupold 4-14x42 scope & Harris bipod. With the scope removed it's back to a National Match rifle.

GeeRam wrote:Anyone on here have a M1903A4 real or repro, or even a M1903A1 Unertl.....??

They don't seem to be popular/common in UK?

I know two guys that have/had 1903s. Both were competition winners.

I would not add a scope to a historical rifle, but I do like the concept of a company manufacturing a reproduction sniper rifle.

I really wanted one of the reproduction Vietnam-era USMC M40s that were on offer a few years ago: https://rifletalk.org/2015/04/15/review ... roduction/ Sadly, I could not afford it.