You got it.A friend of mine was there assembling rifles back when. I went down to Jacksonville to IBA to visit and checkout the operation.
I feel that those rifles had a barrel fitted, tuned factory trigger, steel BDL bottom metal, 8-40 scope base screws and maybe a clip slotted receiver. I believe that the finish was Ion Bond.
Definitely had a bit of a cult following and the USMC pull was strong.
There were a bunch of XM3 rifles there the last time that I was there. Time flies..
They would make a fine collector piece and probably still a great performing shooter too.I had to laugh...1996, the M40A1. They are on the Mk22 Mod 0 after having maxed out the Mk13 Mod 7 and the M40A6.
They have come a long way over the years. Still, a beautiful and proficient rifle and I would not say 'no' to owning one.
They would make a fine collector piece and probably still a great performing shooter too.
Lt. Col Chandler was the XO of Weapons Training Batallion at Quantico
He was also the CO of the Rifle Range Detatchment at Stone Bay, MCB Camp Lejune
He had some juice in the USMC and he had a lot of connections. He was kinda stuck on re-inventing the vietnam era sniper bolt gun. In the early 90's, others in the USMC Scout Sniper School were using modern engineering and technology that Norm did not and would not embrace. Elements of those modern technologies were accepted as the "standard" and are still in use today.I don't remember him in my time at the ranges; but then, we would not have rubbed shoulders lol. There were a whole lotta people between him and me.