[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Before 1950 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/19/2005 8:26:14 PM EDT
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Let's see your pictures of your guns made before 1950! here are mine!   My Grandfather took this off a guy back in 1935. The man pointed it at him and tried to rob my Grandfather. My Grandfather gave it to me about 15 years ago. Patty |
Very nice carbines. I'll have to dig out a picture of mine. Patty |
Boss German Broomhandles and Lugars. Very nice Patty |
No particularly significant stories. Like so many others, my C&R FFL has gradually been emptying my pockets over the past five years. I always wanted a broomhandle, and I got those a while ago (got pretty good deals on the, so couldn't resist). I got the P-38s a couple of years ago (both WW-2 issue), and got the two Lugers pretty recently (both WW-1 issue). The Luger is just such a beautiful gun, that I couldn't stop myself. C&R licenses are evil!! 
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Well buying what you want is always contagious! Patty I couldn't remember the Walters! |
Here ya go (had to run down in the basement and find some):  The 6.5 x 55mm is in the middle. For comparison, on the left is a .223 cartridge (5.56mm) for the AR, and on the right is a .30-06 cartridge (7.62mm) for the Garand. The 6.5 is pretty fast and has a nice flat trajectory. |
I don't have a picture of mine, but it looks like this: Model 1859, only thing that prevents me from shooting it is no ammo and the hammer spring is broken. Anyone know if fixing the spring will devalue the rifle (unless there is a source for springs made in 1859)? CW |
Looks just like mine  Love that rifle. I see you're missing the spring clip, and keeper loop for the sling though. Have a frog for that bayo ? I found a SWEET officer's dress one a few years back.... Seem pretty rare. Never seen another one like it, at least. It's one of my absolute favorite rifles.  |
Yep. It definitely was in the war according to a couple of experts that looked at it. Idiot that had it before me engraved his drivers license number in the barrel, probably destroying it's worth, hence the thought about fixing it and shooting it. CW |
Geese Louise! It's just too bad we can't bitch slap people isn't it? Patty |
Lol! I can picture them however, it would be nicer if you emailed them to me and I could host them for you. Patty |
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Here's my latest: M1917 Eddystone:  1943 Savage made No.4 Enfield:  September 1918 M1903 Springfield:  2nd series 1940 Type 99 Arisaka captured by Melvin L. Harris of the 7th infantry division at Okinawa or Korea:  Here's my oldest rifle-1913 M-95 Carbine:  I could go on and on.... |
Patty, Patty, Patty - those aren't carbines - both rifles. |
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1938 "237" Berlin-Lubencker-Maschinefabrik 84,692 Produced 1939 "42" Mauser Oberndorf 279,078 Produced 1942 bnz Steyr-Daimler-Punch 117,836 Produced 1943 bcd Gustloff Worke, Weimar 315,107 Produced 1944 byf Mauser Oberndorf 1,434,219 Produced (the most of any WWII Nazi 98k Rifle)  My favorite a 1939 "42" (Mauser Oberndorf)  Yugo 98K Capture with Waffenamps unfortuatly I can't determine what factory produced the reciever.  M48A  M38  |
Roundabout, My grandfather gave it to my dad's brother, and late last year my uncle was trimming his stuff down since he like to travel he passed it on to me. |
Well educate me. I'm really not that well educated on rifles/carbines etc. It's just the lower looked like my carbine. Talk in plain english that a dumb blond might understand! Patty 
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Definitions vary actually, but essentially a carbine is a short barrelled rifle. Now the $64,000 question - what constitutes "short barrelled"? For most of us, that means around 16". (less than 16" would be a SBR - short barreled rifle - which gets registered with the Feds). |
man shure looks a hell of alot better than my 03a3 from the CMP 
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All right! I'll save that to my harddrive then! Patty |
That's so cute I want to pinch it. Patty |
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This is my Colt single action Army revolver, cal. .32/20. It was originally shipped from Colt to a gun dealer in Ohio in 1908. My Great-Grandmother (pictured on horseback, with the gun in her belt) took possesion of the gun sometime between shipment from Colt and 1910. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/richholland/colt_display.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/richholland/close_up_horseback.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/richholland/letter.jpg |