DD403 – AP The Sniper

The sniper's Springfield connects a specialist task with a rifle family older than the Garand. King & Country identifies his weapon as the scoped M1903A4, the wartime sniper version associated with a Weaver-pattern sight. It represents a different approach from the ordinary squad's volume of fire.

The M1903A4 was made by Remington, although the rifle family retained the Springfield name. That is a useful little distinction in American small-arms history. In a squad equipped largely with self-loading Garands, the sniper’s bolt-action rifle and telescopic sight point to a different priority: observation and deliberate, carefully placed fire.