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It is possible you rifle is unfired and this is the original stock.

However, the checkering is not original, and that makes it unlikely the gun is new -- who would go to all the trouble of...

Also useful on the M1919 .30 cal, if we had kept that weapon in service.

Amen. I was a mech company commander my second tour. Each M113 APC with ACAV modification had 2 M60s (usually mounted in antenna mounts) and the M2. We would commandeer one of the asbestos gloves...

Thanks a lot. I have three Springfields, two M1903A3s and one M1922 MK II.

The Marine Corps had a sight protector for the M1903 that was larger than standard and was designed for shooting with the sight protector on. Someone mentioned that there are reproductions of this...

Thanks, I'll try.

You would think someone would make up reproductions of those USMC sight covers.

I use an old Lyman Spar-T turret press. I typically size, prime and bell about 1,000 at a time. I definitely use a loading block -- and go over it carefully with a flashlight, looking into each...

I'll second the bit about leaving the sight cover off -- my M2 has ugly scars there. It's a shame Springfield didn't come up with a bigger front sight cover, one that was designed for shooting while...

Thanks, guys.

I'd love to have a legal buttstock for my Colt Woodsman -- what a squirrel gun that would make. But I can't imagine why I'd want one for my M1911.

That is the key question. Opponents of the death penalty say it isn't a deterrant (ignoring that it deterrs the person executed from committing more crimes.) The reason it isn't a better deterrant...

Is anyone getting email notification when someone posts in a thread to which you are subscribed?

I'm not getting notification -- I visit the board and see that someone has replied, but I'm sure I...

If there is injustice in the application of the death penalty, it is that we don't do it enough to make a difference.

When talking about Eddie Slovic, we need to understand the points made above. The 28th Infantry Division (PA NG) had taken horrible casualties. And being a National Guard division, many of the...

The .32-20 was seen as an all-purpose cartridge. It was indeed used by deer hunters, but those were the days with plentiful game and no seasons or limits.

Another use was for small game, from...

Frankly, I never got in trouble by keeping my mouth shut.

Living in the woods, I have deer and turkey in the yard all the time, and the occasional black bear. We have coons that come up on the wrap-around porch and sit looking through the dining room...

Amen. It is Cronkite and those who followed him who are responsible for many of the names on the Black Wall.

Amen, again.

Cronkite was the man who said, "If I say it's news, its news." He...

I was in France the week before the 200th anniversary of Bastille day. That was the day they started to plan for it.

The French have contracted with the Chinese to learn how to hold fire drills.

I've used that and Old English oil. In general, it depends on the stock -- oil-finished stocks benefit from it. Polyurethane or varnished stocks do not.

It's true that the Confederate ARMY had whatever it could get its hands on, but it was perfectly possible to pool weapons and issue like weapons to batteries. The Union Army did that, the...

Amen. If you don't leave a bit of the semi-wadcutter shoulder above the case mouth, the case mouth will tend to scrape on the ramp and foul things up.

Personally, I like the Lee 230 grain tumble...

The most common smooth bore gun was the Napoleon -- named for Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III), the emperor of France at the time. Confederate batteries tended to have both smooth bores and rifled...

Germans are entitled to have medals, just as any other nation.

We should remember, WWII ended in 1945. A man who was only 18 years old then would be 82 years old today. A man who was old enough...