M40 Clone at 1,100 yards

[Art]

....or the return of Henry Chan.

A while back I did a post of the results of Chan shooting two designated marksman rifles, a Chinese manufactured Druganov and Chan's personally owned M21 clone. Both rifles accuracy started to fall off after 600 yards which I suppose is to be expected since they were designed to be 600 yard rifles.

This video is of Chan's personally owned M40 clone. This vid shows the difference between an actual sniper rifle and the two previous vids I posted. It's also remarkable shooting on a very windy day at ranges of a full kilometer.

Also, no Chan comedy show on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtL40TzIRcY

[lyman]

he does some interesting videos

[pmclaine]

....or the return of Henry Chan.

A while back I did a post of the results of Chan shooting two designated marksman rifles, a Chinese manufactured Druganov and Chan's personally owned M21 clone. Both rifles accuracy started to fall off after 600 yards which I suppose is to be expected since they were designed to be 600 yard rifles.

This video is of Chan's personally owned M40 clone. This vid shows the difference between an actual sniper rifle and the two previous vids I posted. It's also remarkable shooting on a very windy day at ranges of a full kilometer.

Also, no Chan comedy show on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtL40TzIRcY

That looks closer to M24 configuration with that stock but action would be similar to M40 in that its short.

I took my Vietnam clone M40 to Sig Sauers 1000 yard class....



I dont really trust the turrets on the Leupold to "dial" so its lucky for me the commemorative scope has a mil dot reticle.

On 9X I zeroed with a 2 mil hold "under" wich allows me 7 mils of adjustment through the scope.

To reach 1000 yards I dial the magnification down to double the mil values.

The steel plates were small at 1000 yards on 4.5X but getting hits was doable....

[barretcreek]

Is any one still making the M40 wooden stock?

[pmclaine]

Is any one still making the M40 wooden stock?

This seller on Ebay puts one out every couple weeks...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/beever156/m.html?item=303920020775&hash=item46c30b7d27%3Ag%3AwKcAAOSwaCBgTYJg&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Ive bought one his stocks that is currently being built into an M40ish rifle with a detachable mag.

[barretcreek]

Thank you.

[Art]

he does some interesting videos

Old Henry can shoot, and is familiar with what he shoots, unlike some of the other on line hacks. His spotter, Josh Mazzola, is a USPSA Grand Master and says that he considers Chan the best iron sight shooter he's ever met. His site, is called "9 Hole Reviews" because he says three and five shot groups are cheating.

[pmclaine]

Thank you.

You are welcome....Pictures when you get it built.

Lots of building ideas here....

https://Www.m40rifle.com

[dryheat]

Here's one for you: Minute of Angle all day long. Every heard that one? But I have gotten a one and a quarter inch group once and it was with a Garand. It was 100 yrds. I'd have to look for the picture. Probably not a tough thing to do for any good shooter. But if I ever shoot 1 MOA I'm buying a round for the bar(I don't go to bars anymore). Not Jackie Chan. The guy seems pretty scientific. We used to shoot at quartz rock outcroppings in the hills. ONe guy shoots and the other guy spots. We thought we were pretty good until the laser told us it wasn't 600 yrds. It was still a lot of fun.

[pmclaine]

Here's one for you: Minute of Angle all day long. Every heard that one? But I have gotten a one and a quarter inch group once and it was with a Garand. It was 100 yrds. I'd have to look for the picture. Probably not a tough thing to do for any good shooter. But if I ever shoot 1 MOA I'm buying a round for the bar(I don't go to bars anymore). Not Jackie Chan. The guy seems pretty scientific. We used to shoot at quartz rock outcroppings in the hills. ONe guy shoots and the other guy spots. We thought we were pretty good until the laser told us it wasn't 600 yrds. It was still a lot of fun.

This is my go to rifle....M40 based.

https://youtu.be/UIRZJTqIfGs

This was the range target was 525 or so...(red arrow)



My newest build...





With irons at 100 yards (10 shots)



Tomorrow Ill zero the scope...



I buy 1 MOA groups, they are expensive, the rifles make up for mediocre skills.

[barretcreek]

Is that a pre-war M70?

Thanks for the link.

[pmclaine]

Is that a pre-war M70?

Thanks for the link.

Its post war, probably 1952 or so.

I put a pre war bolt sleeve/safety assembly on to give it the early look.

[BlitzKrieg]

... Chan's personally owned M21 clone. Both rifles accuracy started to fall off after 600 yards which I suppose is to be expected since they were designed to be 600 yard rifles. ]

I'd like to take a dissenting view on M21 being a 600 yd rifle. It has the capability to easily shoot men at 1000 yds. I have a rack grade M1A sitting in a M14e1 stock, scoped and I can hold a 18 inch group at 1000 yds with the Mod 316 Mod"O" sniper round. I have repeatedly been doing so at Quantico the past 7 years. My rifle has a stock trigger that needs a trigger job , and a standard barrel. I have installed a 6x and later a 16x fixed power SWFA SS scope and shot this Minute of Man at 1000 yds.

The rifle was not made for that long a distance and I'd agree 600 yds is probably max combat engagement when they developed the M21. A glass bedded, properly barreled M21, with NM barrel has got to be a far more accurate rifle than my plane jane M1A.

[Art]

BlitzKrieg

I'm not going to ask you to go back to the old videos in my post of Chan shooting the Druganov and the M21. So, here are the videos for Chan's personally owned M21 clone and his shooting it out to 800 yards. The conditions were better when he shot the M21 than the M40 so maybe he was just having a bad day. It happens right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gm0QEMOjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9S8aVrCHk

The shooting was done at Carter's country just north of Houston. I used to shoot there often until they got silly on some of the rules and the price got too high. At that point I joined a gun club. I still shoot some trap and skeet there though.