
An additional log sheet indicates a round of shooting in 2006, 7 groups with 3 different ammo loadings (35 rounds), with matching labelled 25 meter test targets. The internal notes indicate a headspace tolerance of only six-thousandths of an inch and a trigger weight of 3.5 pounds.
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This included log book notes a the serial number, "M40A3" model designation and origin at PWS, with dates of late 2002/early 2003 for construction and testing, with only 86 rounds logged. At PWS, the receiver was finished and fitted out to USMC specifications by a USMC armorer, who started a matching numbered "Tube Data" Weapon Record Book, also known as a "build book", the permanent record for the weapon while not entered into USMC inventory, this receiver had a virtually identical experience to the M40A3s accepted for Marine sniper duty. One of the top centers for excellence in military gunsmithing, the PWS is to this day responsible for construction and maintenance of Marine Corps sniper rifles, MEU(SOC) pistols intended for the USMC's Special Operations Capable units, and weapons of similar prestige and importance. Per the consigner, Ross sold the receiver, trigger guard and floor plate from his inventory to the consigner, who then arranged to have it pass through the Precision Weapons Section at Quantico, Virginia. Actions that are commercially available, and they cannot be replicated. The letter concludes that these 10 actions represent the only legitimate U.S.M.C. The letter goes on to state that the actions were purchased for the purposes of continued development and keeping record of the evolution of the M40A3. Ross optical platforms, which were provided to the Marine Corps under contract. Ross in the white with specific receiver geometry that didn't include scope mounting holes, a specification that was developed to interface with the D.D.
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It goes on to state that these 10 receivers fall within the correct serial number range and were manufactured to Marine Corps specifications. In June of 2001, which would have been around the time the Marine Corps completed its updating process. States that these 10 actions were purchased from Remington Arms Co.

An included letter dated 24 February 2003 from D.D. Part of the process of upgrading to the M40A3 platform involved Remington manufacturing approximately 600 of the special Model 700 actions for the Marine Corps, which were completed in just one week of full production.

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Development of the M40A3 began in 1996 and was intended to update the aging M40A1 platforms that had been in service since the 1970s. Manufactured in the late-1990s to early-2000s, this rifle is built using one of only 10 commercially available Remington 700 actions that were originally produced for manufacture of the United States Marine Corps M40A3 sniper rifles.
