Looks and elegance don’t mean jack, really. You look at it, and you’re like “Really? A freakin’ Tasco scope literally bolted onto the action, with electrical tape and hose clamps for rings…?”Īnd, then the sumbitch groups five rounds out of five in a quarter-sized circle at 100 yards, and you’re going “How the…” while looking at your own group that’s the size of a damn paper plate. Everything he’s ever showed up on the range with just looks… Wrong.īut… Everything I’ve ever seen him shoot is immaculately accurate.
He’s done so much “wrong” as a home gunsmith as to make you want to take up donations so he can go off to school. Aside from a certain Hispanic insouciance towards cosmetic appearances, that is.
Y’know… Without some range time, this really doesn’t tell us much at all. I am sure the Spaniards, like soldiers everywhere, sighed, shrugged their shoulders, hummed a few bars of “Que Sera, Sera” and got on with it with the attitude “Any sniper rifle is better than no sniper rifle” On top of which, there’s always people transferring in and out and you’re never at MTOE strength. BUT you are organized and equipped under a Modified Table of Organization and Equipment, which reflects reality and which zeroes out both men and equipment and authorizes substitute (usually older) stuff in place of the ideal. The US Army has the Table of Organization and Equipment for your unit, the platonic ideal. In my quarter century of service, I never once served with a unit at full personnel strength or having its full allotment of weapons and equipment. And yet, they were formally adopted and used in Spanish military service for many years.” To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, “You go to war with the army you have”. “Honestly the worst actual military sniper rifle I have ever seen. And yet, they were formally adopted and used in Spanish military service for many years.
Honestly the worst actual military sniper rifle I have ever seen. The mounts are a conglomeration of spacer blocks crudely welded to the receiver, bits of aluminum Weaver rail, and cheap thumb-screw scope rings. It uses a cheap Japanese-made 10x “Marine” scope (this being in the days when Japanese optics were very poor, unlike today). The late pattern of M43 sniper is truly awful. The scope mounting system is a bit odd, but again functional. It uses a Zeiss 4 power scope with La Coruña markings (either scrubbed and remarked or bought from Zeiss without and German markings). The early type is a bit basic, but reasonably well constructed. As is fairly common, a sniper rifle variant was made form the standard rifles, with an early version made in the mid 1950s and a later model about a decade later. The standard Spanish infantry rifle from 1943 until the adoption of the CETME was the M43, an 8mm Mauser short rifle made at the La Coruña arsenal.
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