POTD: M40A6 Sniper Rifles in US Marines Sniper Course Qualification

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    U. S. Marines with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, sight in on targets using a M40A6 sniper rifle during their marksmen observer sniper qualification at Range 117A on Camp Pendleton, California, Nov. 26, 2019. Marines with SRT are required to qualify annually on the Marksmanship Observer Sniper Course.

    Today we take a look at U. S. Marines with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton as they sight in on targets using their M40A6 sniper rifles.

    The photos were taken during their marksmen observer sniper qualification at Range 117A on Camp Pendleton, California, during November 2019.

    Marines with SRT are required to qualify annually on the Marksmanship Observer Sniper Course.

    For more information on the M40A6 sniper rifle you can check here. The riifle is chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO.

    U. S. Marines with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, sight in on targets using a M40A6 sniper rifle during their marksmen observer sniper qualification at Range 117A on Camp Pendleton, California, Nov. 26, 2019. Marines with SRT are required to qualify annually on the Marksmanship Observer Sniper Course. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andrew Cortez)

    U. S. Marine Lance Cpl. Allen Waller, a marksman observer with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, ejects a shell casing from a M40A6 sniper rifle.

    U. S. Marine Lance Cpl. Allen Waller, a marksman observer with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, ejects a shell casing from a M40A6 sniper rifle at Range 117A on Camp Pendleton, California.

    Below: Note the support on the back of the rifle stock, which looks like a sock stuffed with material.

    A M40A6 sniper rifle sits in position during a annual sniper qualification with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, at Range 117A on Camp Pendleton, California, Nov. 26, 2019. Marines with SRTecial are required to qualify annually on the Marksmanship Observer Sniper Course. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl Andrew Cortez)

     

    All photos were taken by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Andrew Cortez.

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