OK, Which One of You Bought This Vintage Sniper?

[Mountain]

I really don't get the insane prices this stuff goes for, but here it is...

Civilian Marksmanship Program - Promoting firearms safety training!

Probably one of the guys on SnipersHide that wants to one-up the M40 crowd.

 

[terraformer]

It's a collectors item. A bonafided armorer manufactured sniper rifle. Given the revision number, it's an earlier one out of special operations command. They may have slapped a later USMC scope on it, but the gun itself is not USMC as the marines didn't use this until later. If it had the right scope $18k wouldn't have been enough with days to go...

 

[mac1911]

Clearly a boomer had to spend down his grossly over sized 401k ?
IDK man thats nuts

 

[Maninblue1861]

Another on cmp forums for like 20k

 

[Mountain]

I get that they are collectible, but $20K collectible?

 

[Maninblue1861]

I get that they are collectible, but $20K collectible?

If I'm paying 20k for a sniper, then will be for documented m1942 USMC sniper rifles with their full original setups

 

[yogi]

I get that they are collectible, but $20K collectible?

Yes, it shoots straighter too….everybody knows that……cool gun but out of my league financially and ability wise

 

[Mountain]

If I'm paying 20k for a sniper, then will be for documented m1942 USMC sniper rifles with their full original setups

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Awesome stuff. Still beyond what I'd pay but if I had a choice I'd go for the USMC's. I'm pretty happy with the clone I put together and have been shooting it in vintage sniper matches. My teammate and I both shoot them and won silver in our last team match.