Model 70 USMX Sniper rifles

[Gil Martin]

Critch,
I scanned a few chapters of "One Shot-One Kill" by Charles W. Sasser and Craig Roberts about snipers in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. In the section about Sgt. Hathcock, he mentions his Winchester Model 70 with scope and 84 rounds of "match-grade 30.06 full-metal-jacketed rounds of ammo." He does not say there was anything special about his Model 70.

The History Channel ran a few shows about snipers in Vietnam. They mentioned that the military collected Remington and Winchester rifles and Redfield scopes from PXs and BXs to meet the needs of snipers in the early days of the conflict. All the best...
Gil