Need help , I want to buy an old rifle and make it Sniper capable?

[dowmace]

i go to zink ranch and hit penny sized targets at 1000 yards shooting at the hip with my out of the box 91/30

I believe you.

 

[AKguy1985]

ronny, we mostly shoot the 25m version of the AQT with reduced-size silhouettes simulating targets at 100, 200, 300, and 400 yards. Then if we have full distance facilities, we will shoot it on full size "D" targets at actual distance on the second day. The actual qualification course we use only goes out to 400, but we shoot on out to whatever distance we have available; though it is just for practice and fun, not qualification. I understand that back in the day they would often make the soldiers qualify as far out as the range would allow though. Yeah, we shoot it all from field positions, using only a sling for support. Stage 1 is 100 yards standing; Stage 2 is 200 yards transitioning to seated with a forced reload; Stage 3 is 300 yards transitioning to prone with a forced reload; Stage 4 is 400 yards prone. Stage 2 and 3 have significant time pressure. Yeah, shooting Expert is no mean feat... it earns you our "Rifleman" patch and qualifies you to volunteer with us as an Instructor in Training if you pull it off.

Yeah, those M1 and M-14 irons are something else. Far and away the best sights ever put on a combat rifle. Mr. Garand really put some thought into the engineering of those -- right down to the front sight being the width of a man-sized target at your Battle Sight Zero range. Good old American ingenuity.

Dont forget Garand was a canadian by birth lol.

 

[MSteph]

Dont forget Garand was a canadian by birth lol.

North American???

 

[AKguy1985]

In a shotgun news article a couple years ago david fortier shot a repro PE sniper from interordnance at 600 yards and was getting 6in groups. Thats pretty good for an old mosin