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    A glimpse of history

    Dec 12, 2019 4 minutes

    Marketing folk tell us that in order to sell something, you must first of all give it a name. And Leichtmetall M is a crackerjack of a name. In full, it is the Schmidt & Bender Leichtmetall M 4x25 Zielfernrohr.

    I can’t remember where I first heard of Schmidt & Bender. Possibly they showed up in Guns Review magazine from way back, or maybe some fellow shooter spoke of them in passing. Either way, with a name like Schmidt & Bender, and a product called the Leichtmetall M, they were fated to go far.

    THE TWO HELMUTS

    It was back in 1957 that two German citizens got together with the idea of making

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