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Recycled Ajack Scope and Tan Can

bruce98k

bruce98k

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Thanks to some pay it forward by a fellow member, I was able to purchase the rig.
Another recycled turret scope for the database.
 

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Very nice! By the looks of it, I would say the can looks like it is of the narrower variety, compared to a lsr can.
 
Do you think the scope was recycled, or shouldn't it had been the rings to have been recycled?
 
Generally I am assuming the entire assembly has been reissued as opposed to just the rings. Obviously recycling just the rings would require an enormous amount of time and labor. The bigger issue is what happened to the rifle the scope was issued to.
 
Looking closely at one of the pictures that Bruce posted, you can see the small zinger in the tube from when the number was ground off of the ring indicating this one was recycled as an assembly.

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Attached two scope of the Ajack 49xxx block, close SN together. Both LT mounts, clearly recycled.

About the showed scope above, I am not sure, first digit is unchanged, maybe just correction of a numbering error.

I do not show more pics since all these pics were made for a book project to come
 

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Here is another recycled bmj coded scope assembly. In this case the original rifle serial is stamped under the rear base.
Likely an earlier HT assembly.
 

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... could it be that those were recycles at factory? Like they assembled a sniper rifle and then during targeting it turned out to have malfunctions so they pulled the scope assembly and put it on another rifle? Or would they had done this in the field?
 
Absolut said:
... could it be that those were recycles at factory? Like they assembled a sniper rifle and then during targeting it turned out to have malfunctions so they pulled the scope assembly and put it on another rifle? Or would they had done this in the field?
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This is my thought also. The amount of early scopes we see that are just like this seems to suggest they had a tough time initially assembling snipers.
 
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