Quick few questions.

swiftblade

1. Im putting together a Nam' loadout. Will be a sniper loadout so the question is, could i get away with using my Bar-10 stock furniture? I know they used remingtons, had they the poli furniture back then? If not any way i could buy some wood effect furniture?

2. Any place you can reccommend to buy some M56 webbing? Tried ebay with not much luck and SOF is a bit pricey. Don't need much as I said, it's a sniper loadout so i will be traveling light.

Thanks

Firekitten

1.... bar 10 is fine, just paint it. There was no polymer furnature in that era.
spray it up, or use hessian wrap to disguise the fact its plastic nasty.

2; ebay, its hard, but it will come up eventually. Cheapest place you will find it. Authentic nam is not for the penny pincher.
and for a 'light' sniper setup, SOF isnt that bad...


id recomend a canteen, two ammo pouches, pistol holster, belt, no yoke, keep it simple, possibly a double pistol mag pouch. No real 'hard and fast' sniper look. it was all pretty much down to the individual.

swiftblade

Firekitten wrote: »

1.... bar 10 is fine, just paint it. There was no polymer furnature in that era.
spray it up, or use hessian wrap to disguise the fact its plastic nasty.

2; ebay, its hard, but it will come up eventually. Cheapest place you will find it. Authentic nam is not for the penny pincher.
and for a 'light' sniper setup, SOF isnt that bad...


id recomend a canteen, two ammo pouches, pistol holster, belt, no yoke, keep it simple, possibly a double pistol mag pouch. No real 'hard and fast' sniper look. it was all pretty much down to the individual.

Would a spray of OD be out? Can't think of any way to spray a wood effect

Is SOF ok to deal with?

Firekitten

SOF are fine to deal with.

As for the rifle, i didnt mean spray wood, although I do have a technique that works rather well to do that... if you want to know.

Camo spray would work, green with some browns, blacks, greys... make it uneven and natural looking, and it would apear vaguely in keeping. its better than black atleast...

swiftblade

So far...

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/product_details.asp?ProductNo=11213

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/product_details.asp?ProductNo=10887

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/product_details.asp?ProductNo=11877

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/product_details.asp?ProductNo=12828


Anything else? I thought i may as well pick up a yoke too

Firekitten

I'd go for two 56 ammo pouches, a canteen, or two, pistol mag pouch, The yoke is... less important, infact I wouldn't really bother. Snipers didn't tend to have them.

$kilkenny

i no this has nothing to do with the gear and all but wasnt the m14/m21 a popular weapon of choice from nam aswell?
just an idea is all.

swiftblade

$kilkenny wrote: »

i no this has nothing to do with the gear and all but wasnt the m14/m21 a popular weapon of choice from nam aswell?
just an idea is all.

Want to stay with a bolt action.

$kilkenny

ahh no problem..
m60 with a huge scope is what id use as a sniper!
more fun!

Firekitten

$kilkenny wrote: »

ahh no problem..
m60 with a huge scope is what id use as a sniper!
more fun!

so wrong.


Just prey Lemming never sees this post or your ass is grass.

And yeah, the m21 was relatively common, but more as an infantry support weapon in the later years, when snipers proved themselves to the chain of command... you've got to remember vietnam was only the third major conflict they had been used in, and between each, the schools had been disbanded, units shut dhown by the coc. For many years of operation, they existed on a shoestring, in the early 70s however, more units got them, and m21s were more common choices for infantry support roles, rather than precision long range work.

swiftblade

Another question. :rolleyes:

Tiger Stripe or Just OD's ? TBH I don't like tiger stripe all that much, but would it be more effective?

Firekitten

Tigers were Sog, seals, and LRRP, so not paticularly 'snipers'

Lemming

Firekitten wrote: »

Tigers were Sog, seals, and LRRP, so not paticularly 'snipers'

Well, more-so LRRP and SEALs (but they wore what they wanted tbh, blue levis anyone?). LRRP also started to use ERDL more and more towards the end of the war.

SOG tended to wear a mish-mash of stuff or would take OD fatigues and do custom camoflage numbers on it.

In saying the above, there's no right 'one look' for any of the above units since they were all unconventional units and did what worked for their particular needs of the time.

For snipers, again you've got a pick of whatever you want. Plain OD, tiger stripes, ERDL, or most likely plain OD with custom patterns.