M49 us army/usmc sniper spotting scope

[mjac]

I have come across one of these in good shape. The 20x scope comes complete with front and rear lens covers, standard issue tripod, offset, one height extension, and original water-tight case.
Anyone have an idea of what a reasonable price would be?

TIA

 

[rcmodel]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Army-USM...-SCOPE-FUNCTIONAL-ORIGINAL-CASE-/350618094459

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U-S-M49-Spo...201?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c2bd1e8d1

http://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-Militar...631?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item589626f55f

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U-S-M49-Spo...862?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c2ba4f796

Just so you know, many more of them were used by recon, scout, FO's, and match shooters then by snipers.

rc

 

[mjac]

Thanks for the links.

Mike
Chief Scout, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines RVN '67-'68

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Are you certain that it's 20X? I coulda sworn ours were 8 or 10. Very limited and using the scopes on the spotters M-21 was more useful as were most any cheesed out throw away binos we might be carrying.

I do remember them fondly for being made like tanks though.

 

[rcmodel]

All of them I ever saw were 20x Bausch and Lomb.

We had them in heavy weapons platoon, recon platoon, and I used a bunch of them as spotting scopes with 5th Army Army AMU shooting teams.

rc

 

[mjac]

Yep, 20x.