While it was the primary rifle issued, the number of troops that actually entered battle with it was around 450,000. Compared to total production, not that great. As to post WWI storage, the refurb...
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While it was the primary rifle issued, the number of troops that actually entered battle with it was around 450,000. Compared to total production, not that great. As to post WWI storage, the refurb...
The M1917 had a relatively brief primary service life and most never saw front line action. Nor were they used much for training with live ammo. It isn't rare to find one that the barrel appears...
Being 100 years old with original barrel has little to do with it. If you replicated one today using the best materials and manufacturing techniques you'd most likely do no better. It is a ruggedly...
With all the focus on barrel condition, I've got to ask have you looked at the inletting and points of contact between wood/metal? The rifle is a century old and wood shrinks and warps a bit in that...
While Kabul arsenal guns are of high quality, they didn't follow the exact production standards of the Brits, so it could have Henry, Metford or Enfield rifling (I have .303 examples in each). It...
As far as shooting goes, whomever did that most likely did all subsequent owners a favor. Wood changes dimensions...and sometimes even direction....with changes in humidity/temp/age. While some...
For sporter wood, go to Martini Cadet and Henry Stocks - Treebone Carving
Since you said it had a safety, and since no .303 military rifle had a safety, I was assuming it wasn't military. One or...
From the limited pics all I can assure you of is that it isn't an original Brown Bess. The stamping is inconsistent with the aged pitting.....which looks more like the instant aging done with acid...
Accuracy is a relative concept depending on one's needs. The SKS does well enough in the shoot and scoot scenario, but obviously lacks range or precision for barely exposed targets. As a 100 yard...
To answer this we need a whole lot more data. It isn't like Martinis only came in one size and used common wood. There are so many variations on action size, barrel lengths, and means of attachment...
Actually a large and thriving Tung oil industry was well established along the US gulf coast at the time, the USDA having encouraged planting large plantations of Vernicia fordii, usually known as...
Recognizing that it used an odd ball cartridge when I bought my VZ-52 from the importer, I bought a few cases of the then plentiful ammo. The ammo that originally came in with the rifles has been...
While I'd never say never, it is highly unlikely that a Remington 03 made it there. The first ones were accepted (vice manufactured) in Dec 1941, according to The Remington Society of America . ...
Yours is a straight up legit MK IV rifle transferred from a Brit arsenal in India to Nepal in 1908. It started life as a second pattern of the never issued Enfield-Martini (EM) in .40 cal. Save for...
If you are stuck with having to buy without physically getting your hands on it, IMA is really your only good choice. If you buy one of the cleaned ones....whether MK II or MK IV, you'll get a solid...
When using any artifact for education on a given time period you are of course stuck with the dilemma of returning it to the configuration that is correct for that time. The vast majority of...
When India surplussed their Pattern 14 rifles, I bought 2 direct from the importer still encased in their version of cosmoline. Both had obviously been through the repair, but one had the swivel and...
Thank you and future respondents for comments. I spent 3 very full days this past week expanding and correcting descriptions in their draft catalog.....but the corrections haven't made it on to the...
My father-in-law's Alzheimer and associated physical decline has progressed to the point where we had to move him to a home for 24/7 care, which financially necessitates liquidating part of his...
Yours is a perfect description of a bunch of factory made knock offs coming out of Pakistan into North America over the past decade or so. I'm surprised that they might have also invaded OZ, but who...
Since it is a foreign exchange (Antigua and Barbuda) it is unlikely a phone number....and why would anyone want to poke the 5oo pound gorilla?????
The original serial number has obviously been scrubbed....and by the patina over the scrubbed area I'd say some time ago at that. For what reason is unknown, but stolen property sort of comes to the...
Many possibilities, staring with your model 70 has a polished bolt riding on polished rails. These rifles, particularly the post WWI reworks have a (by comparison) rough finish on the bolt/rails...
In regards to the military style receivers (vs. the Model 30), I think it is safe to say no receivers were made after 11 Nov 18. Rifles were assembled after that, but from receivers already made. ...
In theory the last Remington produced under the gov't contract was serial# 545,541. However when one ceases a contract suddenly on a given date (11 Nov 1918) you just know there were a ton of parts...