I found one very similar up for auction but mine looks better...:
**HOLD** SMOF5183 - 17609 - U.S. RIFLE CALIBER .30 M1D (SNIPER’S) NICE! - Serial number 2904262 with SA 2-52 dated barrel. Drawing number is located on the top of the barrel and ends in 555, correct for the M1D, and NOT a regular barrel that has been altered with a bogus copy of a scope base cobbled on to it by Bubba’s Butchery shoppe. This is complete with correct original M84 sniper scope and mount. Scope seems to have a few droplets of oil on the internal lenses, but is usable as is. Correct MRT 2-52 dated leather cheek pad, laced in place although it does not have the screws installed. Arsenal dark greenish parkerized finish has about 98% remaining with bits of dried cosmoline in the corners. Bore gages 3 at the breech and 1 at the muzzle, and is excellent, bright and sharp, seemingly unused since rebuilt into the M1D configuration. Sharp circle P on the grip over traces of an earlier P. There is probably a rework cartouche under the cheek pad, but we prefer not to remove it to check. Stock has dark appearance from storage in cosmoline, with assorted minor storage and handling dings. Reportedly this is one of the SAMCO imports from the 1990s (from Norway or Israel, depending on which story you hear) but we did not detect any import marks, so I think it may be one of the early CMP “lottery” M1D rifles.
The M1D sniper rifles were ALL made by arsenal overhaul of standard rifles made by any of the four makers, and there is no “correct serial number range” for these. Although the M1D design was approved late in WW2, apparently none were actually made then, and the initial assembly was during the Korean war. Barrels made then (usually dated 10-51 through 3-53) continued to be used on M1D rifles assembled well into the 1960s. The M1D was used during Korea and well into the Vietnam war. These are probably the most affordable U.S. military sniper rifle available to collectors today, and likely to rapidly increase in price to match the escalating M1903A4 values in recent years. $2850.00 (View Picture)
**HOLD** SMOF5183 - 17609 - U.S. RIFLE CALIBER .30 M1D (SNIPER’S) NICE! - Serial number 2904262 with SA 2-52 dated barrel. Drawing number is located on the top of the barrel and ends in 555, correct for the M1D, and NOT a regular barrel that has been altered with a bogus copy of a scope base cobbled on to it by Bubba’s Butchery shoppe. This is complete with correct original M84 sniper scope and mount. Scope seems to have a few droplets of oil on the internal lenses, but is usable as is. Correct MRT 2-52 dated leather cheek pad, laced in place although it does not have the screws installed. Arsenal dark greenish parkerized finish has about 98% remaining with bits of dried cosmoline in the corners. Bore gages 3 at the breech and 1 at the muzzle, and is excellent, bright and sharp, seemingly unused since rebuilt into the M1D configuration. Sharp circle P on the grip over traces of an earlier P. There is probably a rework cartouche under the cheek pad, but we prefer not to remove it to check. Stock has dark appearance from storage in cosmoline, with assorted minor storage and handling dings. Reportedly this is one of the SAMCO imports from the 1990s (from Norway or Israel, depending on which story you hear) but we did not detect any import marks, so I think it may be one of the early CMP “lottery” M1D rifles.
The M1D sniper rifles were ALL made by arsenal overhaul of standard rifles made by any of the four makers, and there is no “correct serial number range” for these. Although the M1D design was approved late in WW2, apparently none were actually made then, and the initial assembly was during the Korean war. Barrels made then (usually dated 10-51 through 3-53) continued to be used on M1D rifles assembled well into the 1960s. The M1D was used during Korea and well into the Vietnam war. These are probably the most affordable U.S. military sniper rifle available to collectors today, and likely to rapidly increase in price to match the escalating M1903A4 values in recent years. $2850.00 (View Picture)
I call first dibbs on yours if and when you decide to sell...
