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.
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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