General Inquiry -Optics

[Gerard J Babin]

I haven't been on here in awhile (medical reasons). I am building a replica Prop for a client. I know what should mount on an 80's era M40, however they insist on the Scope on LJ Gibb's M40 season 10 Season of the snake. Does anyone in this group have any Idea what Optic is mounted on Gibb's Rifle in this episode. I cannot match the design to the video optic (Through the scope view). With anything I can find in my books. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[fdkay]

Most of the time, those reticles are put in post production and frequently have nothing to do with actual reticles.
The best example of this is the first Sniper movie with Tom Berenger. Later movies, they actually did a good job of matching reticles to the scopes they were using.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

This scope?

 

[Herald]

Potential alternate view with what looks like a turret logo visible.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

Found it...

Sniper ZT 5-27x50 FFP Scope Side Parallax Adjustment Glass Etched Reticle Red Green Illuminated with Scope Mount

Features: Glass-etched/First focal plane(FFP) reticle Ultra wide-angle and long eye relief Build on a very durable 30mm aircraft-grade one-piece tube construction Hunting rifle scope providing crystal clear targeting at 5-27x magnification, with a 50mm objective diameter and an eye relief of...

www.texasprecisionoptics.com

 

[OddBall]

The budget must have dropped severly at that point. The scope in Trigger Monkey's post looks very chinesium with some copying USO turret positioning. That's even a detachable mag 700 which would wouldn't have been correct either. Looks like he was supposed to have shot McGee with that rifle. That's what his customer wanted to commemorate?

 

[Gerard J Babin]

Thanks!

Looks about right; everything lines up. Still working on another M40 "Gibbs" build. I might actually be able to retire making these copies ever since Harmon retired from NCIS.

Found it...

Sniper ZT 5-27x50 FFP Scope Side Parallax Adjustment Glass Etched Reticle Red Green Illuminated with Scope Mount

Features: Glass-etched/First focal plane(FFP) reticle Ultra wide-angle and long eye relief Build on a very durable 30mm aircraft-grade one-piece tube construction Hunting rifle scope providing crystal clear targeting at 5-27x magnification, with a 50mm objective diameter and an eye relief of...

www.texasprecisionoptics.com

 

[Trigger Monkey]

 

[packratt]

Couple more pics

NCIS - Season 18 - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

www.imfdb.org

 

[redneckbmxer24]

That’s not even an M40, it’s a 700P DBM model with some rattle can on the stock and some shit chinesium scope.