I suggest you get your front and rear scope blocks from Steve Earle, good guy, good parts, and good prices. I think the pre-195x barrels used the dovetail in the barrel, and post 195x barrels used the two screws.but I don't recall with which year, but 1951 or 1952 or 1953 seems to jog my memory. "Ok, so the two screw is for the heavier Douglas profile and the dovetail is for the Winchester eat, I need a different front sight block : ) Id go two screw and challenge someone to prove it incorrect. I think they are kind of rare or you could buy a Winchester 75 or period rifle and scavenge one. If you went with a dovetail than your fantasy is that the USMC had an ooolllllddd stock barrel on hand and twisted it on.įinding a dovetail base wont be hard - Justin has one - I traded it to him. I think you would be correct using a two screw base with the impression being it was rebarreled with a later target barrel replacement.
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I think the history shows these prewar M70s spent a lot more time as rifle team guns (or in storage) than they did as sniper rifles.ĬplNorton has concerns with the thought the whole USMC M70 story is limited to one pre-war purchase of some 300 plus or minus rifles. When rifles were rebarreled and replacement barrels were ordered two screw bases came on line. There were three types of FSB Dovetail and two screw being the last of the three. Note that pic I sent indicates a really early one (picture cut off) with perhaps only 40 examples ever seen so very rare. Im thinking the early target barrels had the dovetail bases. No it would depend on what your time frame/imagined life of the rifle would be.