ORIGINAL: biscuit jake
In my USMC days, snipers used Remington 700's, stiff barrel and a 3x9 Redfield scope. (I would go to a different scope brand now.) No reason that won't kill Bambi.
3rd Bn, 9th Marines.... back then.
Those were the old M40's. The wooden hunting stock, 3x9's, like you say, and a straight tapered varmint barrel. The M40A3's of today have the Mcmillan A4 stock that weights more than the whole M40 did back when. The A3's also have the heavy straight blank bull barrel, not tapered. I believe it's right at .9 from breach to muzzle. The Unertl scope that's used today is also a beast. It weighs probably5 pounds in itself. All steel. They need to be toung because if they aren't, Marines like us will break them! LOL!
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