A used gun is a happy gun, and this makeover made this gun happy. Now it will be shot regularly and probably will take a deer or a coyote in the coming year. Drilling and tapping the receiver and barrel don’t remove the history from the gun. Granted, the various parts of the gun all have a history, but each part has a different history, and not one part on the gun besides possibly the receiver could ever be documented to have done anything. It was bought specifically because it wasn’t a collectible gun. It has also been completely re-parkerized, and we paid $295 for it on GunsAmerica a few years ago from one of the regular sellers here. This rifle had been re-arsenalled at least twice by the government, and not one part matches. Some may have a problem with this, because theoretically every gun has a “history,” but that really isn’t true. The only problem is, you really have to cut up your gun. This is how all of these Unertls used to mount, and it does give a wide and stable base for the scope. It shows you that the producers wanted at least the look of a scope that was actually used in these famous battlefields, and that scope was more than not the Unertl.Īs you can see from the pictures and the video from AGI, the forward mount for the Malcolm scope is supposed to mount not in a standard scope mount set up, but instead toward the front of the rifle, drilled and tapped into the barrel. That scope is mounted incorrectly, in standard scope mounts, but the moviegoers didn’t seem to mind at the time.
#Unertl sniper scopes movie#
If you watch the movie Saving Private Ryan, as we mentioned in our previous article on a “no drill” scoping of the 1903 Springfield, the sniper character in the movie, who is left-handed, uses the Unertl scope on his right handed 1903 Springfield at the end of the movie, in the tower scene where he is killed. Apparently the Marines by that time had moved to the M70 platform, and this is why Carlos Hathcock is nearly always but not exclusively seen with a Winchester.
Many of these guns also saw service in Korea, and some even returned for the battlefields of Vietnam. It is a perfect choice for this project, because this style of scope was standard issue for Army snipers throughout much of World War II, mounted on the 1903 platform sniper rifle. We mounted our Malcolm USMC scope on a mismatched mutt of a 1903 Springfield that had been languishing in the safe for years. If you have any interest in mounting this scope, the video will save you or your gunsmith a lot of headaches. Our friends at the American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI) agreed to help us and you by making an instruction video on the difficult mounting process, included here, in the style of their monthly magazine and DVD subscription called GunTech that is available to their Gun Club of America gunsmith student members.
#Unertl sniper scopes full#
Hi-Lux sent us one, with the mounting hardware, and we were able to have it mounted for a full range test. It has an MSRP of $549 and the internet and street price is slightly below that. To buy an original of this USMC scope today would cost you thousands, but Hi-Lux/Leatherwood this past year released an exact replica, called the 8X Malcolm USMC, and the scope really great, but hard to mount. The scopes adjusts with turrets integral to the rear scope mount, and the tube of the scope floats inside adjustment pins. There are no internal adjustments to zero these old style Unertls. This was standard issue on his Winchester Model 70 sniper rifle, and he even used the same scope on the. Marines version of a Unertl precision riflescope. During his entire career as a sniper, Carlos Hathcock used a U.
He had 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam, and until recently held the world record for a sniper shot at over 2500 yards, using a Browning M2. Carlos Hathcock is probably the most famous sniper of all time.
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