When the Army and Marines first became involved in Vietnam in the early 1960s, the standard sniper rifle was an accurized version of the M1 Garand leftover from the Korean War– which was only available in small numbers.

The rifles proved so popular that they soon became the top choice of elite military snipers. Paired with a precise rifled hammer-forged barrel that was hand-bedded, soon after it was introduced, the rifle earned a deserved reputation for accuracy to match its strength and reliability and became the basis of other rifles such as the 40X series. While in production, the Remington 700 earned a reputation as “the most accurate out-of-the-box production rifle on the market.” They proved exceptionally accurate and M1903A4 versions, complete with Weaver optics, were issued to snipers, remaining in service until as late as the early 1960s. Speaking of WWII, Remington went back to work making bolt-action infantry rifles for the war effort, cranking out at least 1,055,714 Model 1903A3 rifles for the Army, many of which remain in service today in isolated roles. Continuing production of that famed bolt gun– used by Sergeant Alvin York in his famous action on the Western Front– Remington marketed the incredibly strong M1917 action on the sporting market as the Model 30 until the Second World War. Just 20 years after the Civil War– a conflict in which the common soldier used a percussion-fired muzzleloader that even the most highly trained marksman could only fire three times *per minute*– Remington leap ahead in firearms technology by bringing a bolt-action repeating rifle that fed from a box-magazine to the market– James Paris Lee’s Model 1885.Īfter that, Remington was heavily involved in making P14 and M1917 Enfield-pattern bolt-action rifles in World War I, first for the British and then for Uncle Sam.

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