I pick it up in the morning and go to the range with the armor. It has the correct pre 64 bottom metal and the lugged scope mount. Bet a simrad will work on this! But which one is correct? 203, 253??? Who knows??
I kept forgetting to pull the scope back into battery. Didn't seem to affect my group thought. So when you state "this rifle"; are you giving me history on MY rifle or the one in the photo you shared?
Very cool. While attached to 2MarDiv MTU & Pistol Team, we went out to the rifle range a good bit as you can imagine. To give basic Marksmanship classes to remedial shooters and and to shoot an awful lot of pistol. Anyway the scout sniper school was located there and every once in awhile there...