Being a collector of anything it isn't often that you try to aquire the worst of what you are collecting, but this might be the exception to the rule.
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to aquire what one firearms expert calls "The Worst Sniper Rifle ever made". Now being as I collect sniper rifles, and this is a legit military issued sniper rifle, and the fact that there are only a couple of these floating around the U.S. I decided I had to have it.
Well I am now the proud owner of said rifle (along with a nice pair of Spanish Army binoculars) and I must say it's crudeness is part of its charm.
So with out further ado I present the 2nd pattern Spanish M43 Sniper Rifle.
When the "Worst " is still collectable
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Miller Tyme
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When the "Worst " is still collectable
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“The only real power comes out of a long rifle" - Joseph Stalin
Re: When the "Worst " is still collectable
That's different.
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Re: When the "Worst " is still collectable
Was that scope as issued? I have quite a few binoculars but I haven't acquired a Spanish pair yet.
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Miller Tyme
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Re: When the "Worst " is still collectable
Yes that was the issued scope for the rifle. Looks like something off a Marlin 22
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Re: When the "Worst " is still collectable
It's a Mauser with a scope, 90% of the hunting rifles in the country meet that description and hunters buy more every day so what's the beef with this one? Looks fine to me, I never had a problem with any Mauser, it's even 7.92 chambered, shot lots of that with good results. Is it the welded on scope mounts? I wouldn't have done it that way, but to each their own, should work unless they fucked up the heat treatment. Nice find anyway.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt