One thousand M1908 W&S sights were procured in 1909 ... should not be forgotten when considering U.S. sniping rifles of the First World War. The M1903 sniping variants are extremely interesting ...

While sniper rifles existed before World War I, they really came into their own in the trenches of the Great War. Precise rifles with telescopic sights were ... the Great War, one stands above ...

303 Lee-Enfield rifle. A painting of an aerial battle by Horace Davis. Imperial War Museum A Sopwith Camel on the Italian Front. Imperial War Museum The Great Powers entered World War I expecting ...

One of these issues involved the rear sight assembly ... and it was used on all post-war production rifles. While many World War II production M1s retained their earlier sight assemblies after ...

Key Point: World War I is remembered for ... bolt-action systems of era. The rifle also had an effective firing range of five hundred meters with iron sights and a rate of fire around fifteen ...

World War II. In 1932, the Red Army pulled Mosin-Nagants from assembly lines to modify them as sniper rifles. Gunsmiths reconfigured the bolt handle to make room for 3.5–4x telescopic sights ...