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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 642394" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>As far as I know, no contract was ever let by the US Palma Team for any USA rifle maker; company's just offered them. Winchester outright offered their Model 70 .308 Win. match rifle in a special version with a unique trigger and the word "PALMA" stamped on their barrel for all the international folks to use at the 1976 match at Camp Perry. Users could (and all did) buy their rifle afterwords. I had one for a few years but it's trigger wasn't as good as a standard one so I sold it. A special, very accurate lot of M118 7.62 NATO match ammo was used. </p><p></p><p>All this was back when everyone at the World Championships had to use the same rifle. That stemmed from the British Empire having the most members on the International Committee and they believed the best way to see who was the best rifle shooter was to have everyone use the same rifle and lot of ammunition. Soon afterwords, ones own rifle could be used. But everyone still uses the same ammo. Samples are typically sent to each country the year before the big match so chambers and barrels could be made to shoot them the best. But after Australia sent everyone samples in 1987 for the 1988 match, they issued everyone a different lot at the 1988 match. None of the USA nor some other country's rifles shot that stuff very well. The Aussies won.</p><p></p><p>And in 1990 or 1991, Remington contacted the NRA offering to build rifles for the Palma team; they were not asked by anyone to do so.</p><p></p><p>Those 20 rifles made by Ruger are still stored in a vault at the NRA Whittington Center where they were used once, as far as I know. I've heard that they were sold at auction but cannot confirm that. Great for collectors but horrible to shoot seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 642394, member: 5302"] As far as I know, no contract was ever let by the US Palma Team for any USA rifle maker; company's just offered them. Winchester outright offered their Model 70 .308 Win. match rifle in a special version with a unique trigger and the word "PALMA" stamped on their barrel for all the international folks to use at the 1976 match at Camp Perry. Users could (and all did) buy their rifle afterwords. I had one for a few years but it's trigger wasn't as good as a standard one so I sold it. A special, very accurate lot of M118 7.62 NATO match ammo was used. All this was back when everyone at the World Championships had to use the same rifle. That stemmed from the British Empire having the most members on the International Committee and they believed the best way to see who was the best rifle shooter was to have everyone use the same rifle and lot of ammunition. Soon afterwords, ones own rifle could be used. But everyone still uses the same ammo. Samples are typically sent to each country the year before the big match so chambers and barrels could be made to shoot them the best. But after Australia sent everyone samples in 1987 for the 1988 match, they issued everyone a different lot at the 1988 match. None of the USA nor some other country's rifles shot that stuff very well. The Aussies won. And in 1990 or 1991, Remington contacted the NRA offering to build rifles for the Palma team; they were not asked by anyone to do so. Those 20 rifles made by Ruger are still stored in a vault at the NRA Whittington Center where they were used once, as far as I know. I've heard that they were sold at auction but cannot confirm that. Great for collectors but horrible to shoot seriously. [/QUOTE]
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