Finally got around to taking some pics of the FN with all the accessories.
Here is a brief history of the Model 30
This FN-30-11 is the one of the standard Belgian sniping rifles. The FN-30-11 Sniper Rifle can be easily assembled, disassembled, concealed, and (most importantly) recalibrated and re-zeroed. It uses the same action as the Mauser 8mm rifle (it is, in fact, a heavily reworked big game rifle). The FN 30-11 has a stock that is adjustable in two directions; this is done with spacers in the butt and a rear portion of the stock that can be removed and replaced to suit different snipers. It is normally issued within a wide variety of sights and tools. The FN 30-11’s bipod is the same as the bipod of the MAG machine gun. The barrel, while heavy, is quite short for a sniper’s weapon, and this inhibits range potential; for this reason, the FN 30-11s primary users are police forces and anti terrorist units.As the storm clouds of war brewed, Belgian special operations units replaced most of their FN 30-11 sniper rifles with more capable rifles; by the time hostilities started, most Belgian military snipers were using other weapons. Later, FN 30-11s found their way into civilian militia and partisan units in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and even Denmark and Germany. Police forces retained theirs.
There were less than 75 of these rifles imported into the USA and only a few made it in to Canada. The scope is a Hensoldt 4 X marked FN 18/05 on the top. These scarce Snipers were built from 1976 to 1986 with only 1848 reportedly built. Rifle comes with all of its original accessories. These Snipers came from FN with bipod,sling, stock spacers, rubber scope caps. Also included were Anschuts front and rear target sights.
Here is a brief history of the Model 30
This FN-30-11 is the one of the standard Belgian sniping rifles. The FN-30-11 Sniper Rifle can be easily assembled, disassembled, concealed, and (most importantly) recalibrated and re-zeroed. It uses the same action as the Mauser 8mm rifle (it is, in fact, a heavily reworked big game rifle). The FN 30-11 has a stock that is adjustable in two directions; this is done with spacers in the butt and a rear portion of the stock that can be removed and replaced to suit different snipers. It is normally issued within a wide variety of sights and tools. The FN 30-11’s bipod is the same as the bipod of the MAG machine gun. The barrel, while heavy, is quite short for a sniper’s weapon, and this inhibits range potential; for this reason, the FN 30-11s primary users are police forces and anti terrorist units.As the storm clouds of war brewed, Belgian special operations units replaced most of their FN 30-11 sniper rifles with more capable rifles; by the time hostilities started, most Belgian military snipers were using other weapons. Later, FN 30-11s found their way into civilian militia and partisan units in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and even Denmark and Germany. Police forces retained theirs.
There were less than 75 of these rifles imported into the USA and only a few made it in to Canada. The scope is a Hensoldt 4 X marked FN 18/05 on the top. These scarce Snipers were built from 1976 to 1986 with only 1848 reportedly built. Rifle comes with all of its original accessories. These Snipers came from FN with bipod,sling, stock spacers, rubber scope caps. Also included were Anschuts front and rear target sights.
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