6.5x55 Swiss: CARL GUSTAFS STAFS GENARFAKTORI 1916
Hello All, New to this forum but cast and load for a host of century-old Leverguns and several single-shots. I have been wanting to get a vintage military bolt to compete in some local range...
View Articlerussian 1838 rifle is it to good to be true,, any help would be great,,
http://s1364.photobucket.com/user/jonnibravo1/library/russian%20gun Im sorry couldnt upload the images of this musket , but if anybody has the chance to have a look at it for me and give me a clue to...
View ArticleNorth China Arisaka, Type 30
I've posted this in some other places, so I figured I'd post it here as well. You never know where someone might be that knows a little something about these things. I recently came across what I...
View ArticleSoon mine
Once I have my authorization from the authority, she belongs to me! Is not she a beauty?GrußThomas
View ArticleM78 WaffenFabrik bern
Would like to know the value of M78 WaffenFabrik bern serial 185231 and year it was produced. its in good condition thanks
View ArticleM24/47 Barrel band shooting loose
I was shooting my M24/47, today, and after 2 rounds the front barrel band slides forward and out of its retaining spring. I have to (gently) tap the band back on with a hammer and then nudge the...
View ArticleA Strange Smelly followed me home (pic heavy!)
Un bit of surplus rifles porn: it's a n.1 Mk3* rifle made in Ishapore in 1952 and proofed in Brmingham in 1979. In the middle, God knows what happened, given that it bears the acceptance marks of the...
View ArticleChinese Type 56 Full Stock Forged Receiver AK47.
She is a fully functional, legally registered, machine gun and is fully transferrable. It's a mixed s/n piece. that was "re-activated" by Chuck Hudak @ Inland Arms in Austin Texas. I took it in on...
View ArticleA Maxim-Nordenfelt with a brass water jacket
From La Citadelle Museum Collection, Quebec city, Pictures by "Dauph145"
View ArticleThat´s true ability
I just discovered this clip on youtube. It has really impressed me.
View ArticleHanyang Type 88 Reloading
I have a hangyang type 88, it's essentially a copy of the gewehr 88. Now, it's in pretty right shape, the bore is dark and the stock is cracked. But mechanicly everything works, nothing is broken or...
View Articlep17 enfield part ID
I was out at the range with my P17 and encountered an issue with loading ammo in the magazine. I could get the 1st round in, but that was all. I took the rifle apart and noticed a part, that I do not...
View ArticleBrand brand new Enfield
I am new at this milsurp collecting. I just recently bought my 1st K31 & love it. Now I have found a never issued 1955 Lee Enfield. Still in grease & paper. I want a gun I can take out...
View ArticleMy latest purchase
Last week I got the opportunity to purchase a Springfield 1903 A1. It seems to me that the rifle is refurbished either in an arsenal or by a private person. The parkerisation looks quite new to me....
View ArticleFrench 8mm revolvers video
OK, so they're not "vintage military rifles" but there's no better forum for this piece of silliness:
View ArticleAnd what did you do on your Memorial Day weekend?
On Saturday, I decided to take one of my favorite military rifles to the range to dust off the cobwebs. It's a No. 4 Mk. 2, UF 55 A17XX, which I understand was an Air Force contract that went almost...
View ArticleSwedish Mauser Front Sight
I need some help guys. In the past year I purchased a 1900 Oberndorf Swedish M96 in 6.5x55. All the mechanical numbers match and it's a four digit serial number. The stock is walnut but it does not...
View ArticleOld Mauser stocks
I have several old South American contract Mausers from the pre-WWI era. Several of these have beautiful striping of the grain. This fall and winter I am planning on stripping and...
View ArticleA trainer at last! (Enfield 22LR pattern '14 Mk.2)
In the end everything comes to the starting point.'Enfield n.1 has always been in my dreams since I've read, as a young boy the "Una ballata del mare salato" of Hugo Pratt and I fell in love with...
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