Mil surp picture thread
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That reminds me of a moment during my rather brief military career. While on a training exercise we were supposed to stack arms and do the exercise without them. The command for stacking are was, IIRC, a two part command, "Stack Arms...Stack." The officer in charge could not remember the proper command and called out "Put your weapons in itty bitty piles...Put."
They may want to use it for the intro in the next Bond movie.
1953 Russian SKS, gift from a friend of mine. He picked it up for $100 back in the early 90s when we were in college, and now I'm hanging on to it. Shoots great and has that really unique vintage rifle smell.... old grease and wood. I can understand the appeal of these old warhorses.
At least he did not cut barrel down to 16" and put an AR stockNot exactly milsurp anymore but a Czech made DOU stamp k98k. Previous owner drilled and tapped for scope mounts right on one of the roll marks.
This was the first time to the range with a Springfield M-1 I had just received from CMP about 5 years ago. I cleaned and lubed it, loaded the first clip and fired for a function check. No surprise, it ran fine, had not begun to try to dial in the sights at this point. Although I was aiming at a rock that was about 12" and was all over it.
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Combat Diver
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Venezuelan in 7x57 and Luxembourg in .30-06
I used to have a Vennie in a Fajen stock SN:1964 You have some sweet SAFNs.
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It has CMP replacement walnut stock set (not Hackberry, luckily), an old Turkish dope card taped in the trigger group (it says roughly - Up: 12 Right: 4), a Springfield bolt and a milled Winchester trigger guard. Overall, I think CMP did pretty good on this one.
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Nice! I see you are a fellow Lee-Enfield enthusiast!One of these or an LEC or both?
Some of my Brit stuff...
1947 #5 carbine
7.62mm #4
.303 Martini-Enfield converted by the Citadel arsenal in Egypt in the early 1900s
Consecutively numbered Webley mkIV .38/200 sold to New Scotland Yard in 1956. How they ended up in the local gunshop 35 years later is a mystery to me!
1947 #5 carbine
7.62mm #4
.303 Martini-Enfield converted by the Citadel arsenal in Egypt in the early 1900s
Consecutively numbered Webley mkIV .38/200 sold to New Scotland Yard in 1956. How they ended up in the local gunshop 35 years later is a mystery to me!
jmccracken1214
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Eddystone P14 .303
Lithgow #2mk4 .22lr trainer
BSA 'Cadet' .310 - I shoot .32SW Long rounds in it with great accuracy.
Ishapore 2A1 7.62mm; the draws in the forearm finally collapsed from being oil soaked after this was taken and I had to replace the forearm with a less appealing piece of wood.
German/Turk 88/05/35 with the barrel in standard .323 bore. I still wouldn't shoot any modern military surplus in it as there is almost zero gas handling in the event of a ruptured case. Remington is pretty safe for factory ammo, being loaded with a .321 bullet and low pressure. I loaded 150 gr .323 SP at about 2400 FPS and cases only used 2x. Seemed to work ok for me.
S&W M1937
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Not mine but discovered on municipal property of a city I worked for by one of my crews. It is a very rare WW1 German 105mm howitzer. I got it recovered and stabilized so it didn't deteriorate any further and put it in storage pending final disposition. It had an interesting history as to how it came to be dumped in weeds behind a park maintenance building!
Not mine but discovered on municipal property of a city I worked for by one of my crews. It is a very rare WW1 German 105mm howitzer. I got it recovered and stabilized so it didn't deteriorate any further and put it in storage pending final disposition. It had an interesting history as to how it came to be dumped in weeds behind a park maintenance building!
Do tell!