M40 Family - Who owns one?

[Tarrantula]

Anybody had an action done with the old style 40X clip slot? Is there anyone that can do that up here in Canada?

 

[deadman]

I haven't done it but was thinking about it when I did my m40. I have dimensioned drawings for the clip slotting and atrs said they could do it. I ended up cheating with my receiver and didn't do it. I didn't want to spend the money for something that was irrelevant to my needs, especially since my rifle wasn't really correct anyway.

 

[sigpigs]

I'm really new to this, so excuse my dumb questions. I have a remington 700 P, and I've reached out to McMillan to get the A4 stock. Do I need to get a different recoil lug? Some 1913 bases have integrated recoil lug, would they fit?

 

[dan belisle]

I'm really new to this, so excuse my dumb questions. I have a remington 700 P, and I've reached out to McMillan to get the A4 stock. Do I need to get a different recoil lug? Some 1913 bases have integrated recoil lug, would they fit?

The standard one will work fine. - dan

 

[Slimbo]

My psuedo m40 is a little different than most but it’s mine and I love it

FN PBR, 308 win mike rock tube, McMillan HTG.

 

[dan belisle]

My psuedo m40 is a little different than most but it’s mine and I love it

FN PBR, 308 win mike rock tube, McMillan HTG.



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Nice. I have a few Win 70 receivers here I have similar plans for. - dan

 

[deadman]

New project in the works. Not a great time to buy a stock out of the US, but they got me with the tiger stripe.

 

[Tarrantula]

I saw those come up this weekend, bloody gorgeous! If they made an M1A stock like that, man oh man...

 

[deadman]

Agreed, an M1A would be great. I had actually put in an order Fri night for a different a4, then saw this striped one the next morning. Got things sorted with McMillan today and this one is on the way now. Makes up for passing on the smear A4 they had last fall.

 

[Someone76239]

I want one !!!!

 

[Lastgun]

Took a few liberties with this M40...Arctic camo, high gloss and .243...Absolute tack driver with 70 gr. Ballistic Tips...I've been killing sh!t with this thing for over 30 years...Fella that built it for me is long gone but not forgotten every time I haul this beauty out.

 

[deadman]

Nice. I dropped a coyote this morning at first light with my "a5" in .223, the yote didn't care that the rifle wasn't clone correct.

 

[Wayne W]

Just a heads up for anyone looking for a MST-100 scope. US optics just dropped a limit run of 100 MST on their site. Get them while you can!
https://www.usoptics.com/product/mst-100/

 

[ArmedGinger]

Just a heads up for anyone looking for a MST-100 scope. US optics just dropped a limit run of 100 MST on their site. Get them while you can!
https://www.usoptics.com/product/mst-100/

Yup for $5000 a pop plus shipping and taxes when it comes into the country

 

[Wayne W]

Yup for $5000 a pop plus shipping and taxes when it comes into the country

not too bad considering they are hard to find domestically.

 

[deadman]

That's a hard pill to swallow at that price. I know it's THE scope to put on an a1 but after using one, no way I'd pay 5k for an MST.

I wouldn't have bought the one I did had I tried one out before purchasing.

I appreciate correctness as much as anyone else but sheesh. My M40 with repro 3-9× gets used more than my MST-equipped a1.

 

[ArmedGinger]

That's a hard pill to swallow at that price. I know it's THE scope to put on an a1 but after using one, no way I'd pay 5k for an MST.

I wouldn't have bought the one I did had I tried one out before purchasing.

I appreciate correctness as much as anyone else but sheesh. My M40 with repro 3-9× gets used more than my MST-equipped a1.

I totally agree. Unless you're building an A1 clone, there are much better optics for the price. That being said I wish I had never sold my A1.

 

[Wayne W]

Not a m40 but it's still an amazing piece of USMC sniper history. I was thrilled to send couple rounds down range with this genuine XM-3 at buddy's facility down in Texas. Beautiful rifle.

 

[Wayne W]

Poped in GA Precision yesterday and Jeff who is formal 2112/ shop manager now was able to show me around the shop. It's really cool to see how my rifle was being built and other processes and inventories. They are still doing tons of m40 clone builds, which really shows the huge interest people have in M40 series rifles.