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USMC HBT and USMC Shooting Jacket


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I got these a while ago I think the HBT is a true WWII issue but I was told that the shooting jacket is a WWII issue also .

I have a short sleeve Vietnam jacket

 

I think I over paid for the HBT $83.00

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I Paid $8.00 for the Vietnam era and $13.00 for the WWII ERA

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Matt

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There were instances where stripes were stenciled on during ww2. It is certainly a ww2 made coat however, and most coats I see with stencils have the typical Korean era name stamped above the chest pocket and usually have brass buttons with green sewing threads. So this coat has a chance of having been stenciled in ww2, but more likely in the 50's.

The early hbt shooting jacket is actually from the 1950's as well. These jackets have long been thought to be ww2, but they are not.

 

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There were instances where stripes were stenciled on during ww2. It is certainly a ww2 made coat however, and most coats I see with stencils have the typical Korean era name stamped above the chest pocket and usually have brass buttons with green sewing threads. So this coat has a chance of having been stenciled in ww2, but more likely in the 50's.

The early hbt shooting jacket is actually from the 1950's as well. These jackets have long been thought to be ww2, but they are not.

 

CB

 

Ok, how do you explain this?

 

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Ray

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Ok, how do you explain this?

 

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Ray

 

Hello Ray ,

Is it possible to get a shot of that from the back ?

Thanks,

Matt-

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craig_pickrall

That is a great shooting jacket. I have seen these debated for years and that is the first I have ever seen with a label or date. Thanks for posting.

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I decided to see if I could find some pics of that early shooting coat in use. I got lucky with my first reference book.

 

This explains how to make a shooting coat but the series of pics shows a coat of the same design as the 1941 in use by these senior NCO marksmen. Note this is a 1940 dated manual.

 

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the nail in the coffin on that debate,great jacket!

You got me on that one! This is actually the first coat I have ever seen made that early.

They seem to have been mostly discontinued during the war and started to be made in quantity again somewhere around the Korean war era. They were virtually the same, but with some variation in the type of padding and color of buttons. The coats were used into at least into the 60's.

The coat in the group at the beginnng of the thread is still most likely a 50's produced example as most surviving examples are. The blue/green color of the hbt and green sewing thread is typical of that time as opposed to the grayish cast and khaki thread of the early coat.

 

CB

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