{"id":17625,"date":"2021-02-04T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/whats-up-with-norway-and-military-scout-scopes\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:00:02","slug":"whats-up-with-norway-and-military-scout-scopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/whats-up-with-norway-and-military-scout-scopes\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up With Norway and Military Scout Scopes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bHMAeP4EsA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the German widespread issue of the ZF-41 type scope, I have only come across three other military uses of long eye relief optics &#8211; and they are all Norwegian! One is simply Norwegian reuse of surrendered German K98k-ZF41 scopes, including updating them to .30-06 in the 1950s (these were eventually replaced by the M59 pattern sniper). Second is a very interesting M1A1 carbine fitted with a ZF-41 scope by the Norwegian Resistance during World War Two, which is on display at the Imperial War Museum in London (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/collections\/item\/object\/30035937)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/collections\/item\/object\/30035937)<\/a>. Third is an experimental Norwegian G3 sniper made with a Leupold M8 scout scope in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Both books referenced today are by Aslikd Antonsen, are written in Norwegian, and were donated to me by viewers. I don&#8217;t have any good source where I can direct you to buy copies, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Aside from the German widespread issue of the ZF-41 type scope, I have only come across three other military uses of long eye relief optics &#8211; and they are all Norwegian! One is simply Norwegian reuse of surrendered German K98k-ZF41 scopes, including updating them to .30-06 in the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/whats-up-with-norway-and-military-scout-scopes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s Up With Norway and Military Scout Scopes?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}