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    M40 Build Guide

    Back to the M40 Sling discussion... Compare and Comment Slings - Various: SH Members/Museums/Etc. Photo source M40 Build Guide This topic and questions regarding details about the M40 sling has been started and touched on, throughout this forum, from the cotton and nylon web materials, to...
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    Converting a commercial crosshair Redfield to an M40 accurange Redfield

    "tokiwartooth," Your microfilming replication of the "Accu Range" scale is another milestone in your art and certainly worth waiting to see what your efforts and testing bring. I'd love to have you do your "forced oxidation" on my Gen.1 and add the scale and stadia wires, when everything pulls...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Web Slings... Is it just me, or are the cotton web slings looking on the short side? Unless I'm grossly mistaken, earlier and historical photographs showed the compression buckle/clamp and 'figure eight' length adjustment buckle, virtually touching each other, above the trigger guard...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Very nice... and I even like the large sized :cool: photos!
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    M40 Build Guide

    If there is actually someone out there, today, that is achieving the 'green' tint and will accept individual orders... send me a PM. Me and bunch of other people, given the frequency of this topic, of late. The last person I corresponded with, was a small licensed commercial re-finisher that...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Culpeper, I noted your previous enthusiasm with the 'dead-nuts' tolerances of the Badger mount and rings and your logic, that there is no substantive value in substituting the Badger rings, given their level of precision and fit, can't really be questioned. Looks to me, like the SWFA Badger...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Sir, My thanks for that clarification. I'm glad that Badger was that meticulous in it's replication of the original Redfield 40X. I had anticipated a change, of some type; substituting a proprietary design change, to avoid/side-step a patent infringement. Sorry, that's the way my brain...
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    M40 Build Guide

    I'm pretty sure, by this time, that we all know that the SSA is a 40X and, obviously, has features that "_ production" Remington Model 700's don't have. I don't see any basis for debate, on those points and frankly I'm making no effort to do that. SWFA has, in this email, applied a date and...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Ahhhhhh, because it fits? Is there anything to the contrary that you know of and would care to present? Still curious if an original Redfield 4 screw ring set will fit the Badger M40 mount. Can you speak to and/or offer any information on that question...
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    M40 Build Guide

    The SWFA Badger Mount Response... Badger made the mount, but SWFA is the retailer and I think a retailer should know what they're offering. So... the SWFA email response: Mr. Bolt_Trash- Thank you for your patronage for SWFA. From what I understand. Current production Remington Model...
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    M40 Build Guide

    aur0ra145, Congratulations for your selection to the U.S. Navy Officer Corp and our well wishes attend you. Honestly, I was just kidding about the M40A1, but we all know (deep-down,) that one (1) rifle build is not the end... it's just the beginning and always- always, leads to another...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Culpeper, Thanks for your clarification on the Badger M40 Mount and the SSA receiver and for the photographs. Typical of anything, by Badger, it's looks meticulous in it's detail and fit. A question remains... Q's.) Will the Badger mount accept original Redfield 4-screw rings and will they...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Nicely done aurOra145!! Couple of Q's: 1.) Who did your metal preparation and parkerizing job? 2.) Did you bed your action yet? 3.) When do you plan on starting your M40A1? Looking forward to your range report!!
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    M40 Build Guide

    Amendment: See Post #998. Ref: USMC Precision Weapons System I view (think)... the rings, on that one, are just "filler material" on a display piece. The Medium" height Redfield rings, with Torx screws mounting from the bottom, put them in M40A1 territory. A black spray painted scope is...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Just reviewed the SWFA web site and they show a SSA with a Badger mount/ring set and the Leupold Commemorative scope (expand the photo.) Does this mean that the mounts they have available will fit the SSA? http://swfa.com/images/USMC_Scope_Mounted_M40_1500x.jpg I'm going to send them an...
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    M40 Build Guide

    So, a Badger M40 mount box, as identified below, would be suitable for the SSA Commemorative? How are the "Current Model" boxes identified? Anybody have one of these "Current Model" mounts and/or boxes that we could get a photo of?
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    M40 Build Guide

    Per SWFA: "Stock # - 30669B 1" Rings Fits Current Remington 700 Rifles Badger Ordnance has made a limited run of Replica M40 Redfield Style rings and base. These are exact replicas with the exception of the Redfield markings. These are made to fit current production Remington M700...
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    M40 Build Guide

    +2 MescaBug... and I'll amend my above posting to reflect a 1200 to possibly 1500 unit LTD production. To be be fair, the number 1,000 is most definitely wrong, as the above photo, of SN. SSA1045, clearly demonstrates, BUT it is also THE number used in virtually every general reference and...
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    M40 Build Guide

    Amendment: See Post(s) #981 and #983 - Remington M40 Commemorative SSA LTD edition of 1,200 to possibly 1,500 units and not 1,000. I've not seen, nor found, any reference to a 1200 unit production, but the SSA SN on this Commemorative rifle certainly lends credence to that. Was the Leupold...
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    M40 Build Guide

    The M40 Forearm... a closer look The forearm on the M40 (this is an SSA) is a lot slimmer/trimmer than many think, or would like... Those clone reproduction stocks leave plenty of extra wood to take away, to get to this. An original for comparison:
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