If the 03A4 was never used, why the 1970 publication of a new Field Manual for it? It is an Army pub, so maybe the Marines no longer had any - or didn't care about the publication - and just "used what they had" as Marines have always had to do.
If the Weaver K4 60-B was a Vietnam era addition, it might have came too late to be included in any Springfield M1903 Manual - the last 03 manual was published in 1970 - for the M1903A4 - and the M84 was the expected "standard" scope by "the System". That does not mean a quantity of Weavers was not purchased and used to cover a shortage "in country", quickly - or by specific request. Uncle Sam bought a LOT of stuff from everybody during Vietnam - needed or not - that was placed "in inventory". My question would be, if that is so, was there ever a National Stock Number issued to this scope? When? Or a contract number in the same time period to Weaver?
And a local unit still could have done it - off the regular Ordnance books. If we could establish how many US Sniper rifles exist as DOCUMENTED bring backs with this scope (owner's testimony would be helpful, if not definitive) - even two or three - from Vietnam - it would seem to prove they were done that way, during a shooting war - and are Real. The FBI reportedly had some Weaver K4 equipped M1903A4s - maybe they have some transfer documentation from the military. CC
Last edited by Col. Colt; 06-19-2016 at 08:28.
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