Here's a few more SPF examples, if anyone's keeping score:
SPF 2501 AD69
SPF 2259 AD70
SPF 7554 AD68
SPF 7666 AD69
All in 7.62mm.
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Here's a few more SPF examples, if anyone's keeping score:
SPF 2501 AD69
SPF 2259 AD70
SPF 7554 AD68
SPF 7666 AD69
All in 7.62mm.
I have the picture in question, just no way to upload it. I also have at least one photo of an undated Faz receiver that was completed as an Enfield rifle.
Also, I've seen a fair number of Faz...
What are the odds of an example surviving in perfect condition from the early years of a weapon that had a long and VERY busy service life. (Of course there are exceptions, but still....)
And I...
Inch pattern receivers have been made intermittently (and of varying quality) by several American manufacturers.
DSA is probably the best known; their early Australian-pattern examples (made by...
On occasion I have seen L1A1 parts (magazines and a couple of barrels come to mind) with a daub of yellow paint on one edge, like it was purposely applied with a brush.
Did that yellow paint...
Would they have been repurposing leftover .30-06 clips? I ask because I have some clips of the Mark 2 pattern that I use with .30-06 in M1903s.
What was wrapped around the sights, muzzle etc.? Paper masking tape?
I think I've seen only one reweld in all the years I was going to shows. Makes me wonder what happened to them.
Thanks for bumping up this thread...I was looking for that post on custom barreling for years!
And that reminds me, I have a Hensoldt scope I have yet to try out....
I've posted this story here before...I had a well-seasoned 1917 BSA SMLE that didn't so much group as pattern, like a shotgun.
I spent an entire winter off-season cleaning it, using foaming bore...
I've never heard of similar problems with the Metford/Enfield rifles of the same time period.
A few differences at work:
*The .303 British round, being a rimmed case (which offers a natural...
Reminds me of the handguard that came on a well-used 1918-vintage SA I picked up years ago. I swapped out the patched HG for a similarly-seasoned high-hump, but I still have the patched one...
The powder wasn't really the issue...World War I meant lots of contracts issued on short notice, and some of them went to companies that had no experience making ammunition. National Brass & Copper...
Mine (also an early 1942) has a straight stock with no finger grooves, a plain small Ordnance bomb stamp on the tip, and no notches for the A3 handguard ring.
A detail that I notice about it...
Most of them were put into long-term storage in the 1920s...a convenient way to dodge the issue in peacetime. Any that came in from the field after a certain cutoff date were to be scrapped, and...
They also made sure to sabotage their "issued" weapons in the brief time that they had them.
Never heard of this before. Thanks for posting it!
I could see that...what parts would require special storage, apart from the barreled action bodies?
Per the large overall view of the left side, the trigger's an Enfield 87.
Not all of them...there's a published photo taken in occupied Manila of a mother and child evading a Japanese sentry with what is obviously an M1903 with fixed bayonet. And, some were "reissued" to...
A vendor named "sparrowhawkm14" used to sell them, but I have no idea if he still does.
I wanted a fake selector lock to put in there instead of a "happy switch"...in the end I decided it wasn't...
Yes. Clark Campbell described the metallurgical implications well in his book...going from memory, the steel was "burned" and the carbon driven out, so that while it looked normal, it had the...
I've never even heard of such a late rifle appearing in the US, either complete or as parts.
My guess is that the MoD needed small quantities of new rifles (maybe to replace scrapped ones), they...
As in, it's a T48 mag?
I wonder, are there any verified examples of M1903s that were recovered from the Philippines after the war? From reading accounts of Bataan survivors, it sounds like many were ordered to burn their...
I take back my prior statement about "no gas relief holes"...in the full side view, the original (inadequate) gas vent hole is visible on the right side of the receiver ring. Not visible in the...