Thanks for ID.
Useful for sightings in this area and where ever I look.
By the By, you did drop a rod down the barrel to ensure....
THAT IT IS NOT LOADED, didn't you?
[of course the...
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Thanks for ID.
Useful for sightings in this area and where ever I look.
By the By, you did drop a rod down the barrel to ensure....
THAT IT IS NOT LOADED, didn't you?
[of course the...
So, the 125 bullet in .300 blackout is similar to the German round?
And the 6.8 is similar to the British 7mm round they wanted to produce
After WWII.
The 7.62 got in for NATO when the U.S....
Check online for "jobs in Texas"
Find one,[ or two, three,...]
Interview.
Move.
Additional benefit.....call your old friends back "home"
and ask what they need a "snowblower" for.
Paul in...
Some info of Norwegian Krags there.
I have been told that Norway's Krags have left thread.
So righty tighty, lefty loosee will be counter productive.
That also explains why the bolt will not...
A common parctice was to cut rifles to carbines.
MANY ARE VERY GOOD.
Some, SOME, were actually arsenel works.
With no documentation.......no provonance.
The nice ones--like mine!--are nice.
...
Check with the Krag forum.
There is at least one reputable duplicator of stocks that has Krag and Norwegian Krag stocks .
CSP has Krag forum as well as here, and the Krag Collectors Association....
High school ROTC in the early 1960's.
Summer camp at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Fired the M2 carbine, the BAR, some got to fire 30 caliber machine guns.
And we fired our school's M1 Garands.
One young...
Recovered three of several stolen in '94.
Houston PD very good at calling WHEN reported to them.
Still....serial numbers are good to have for records.
[seen a Norwegian 1911 about lately?]
I've heard of Garands MODIFIED for a lot of cartridges, including .22LR
and .458 Winchester. And much in between.
But deliberate production as another cartridge....guess this is it.
Maybe.
...
Good luck with ammo.
Some decades ago I had found a couple of Danish Krags and searched for ammo. A source in Maine sent a box.
At the range recoil was great, bolt was hard to close. My "buddy"...
Sir,
had an auction experience years ago.
"Estate of a gunsmith".
Yeah, right.
Looked over a Star PD and then bid as it "came up" for bid some time later in the day.
I didn't realize that there...
might be S&W .38, do not try in .38 Special.
the cartridge is rimmed. Is yours?
Brit revolvers and S&W were chamberbered for this round.
Also my $50 H&R break top.
Paul
Houston, Texas
had a break-in and theft of several pistols and rifles in the early 1990's.
Houston Police Dept. very good when_ reporting_ recovery.
Three so far--of 12. No pistols reported, but two rifles and...
most educational!
Check ammo before shooting.
Check chamber before shooting.
Check bolt, firing pin, extractor, ejector, and that anatomy portion that requires both hands behind back, palms...
From the world's most cluttered garage, I was showing dissassembly to a buddy and, sure enough, the extractor spring goes sailing past the inert Triumph Spitfire and into the unknown.
I impressed...
nothing new here. While at sea Ensign "Jerk" was "surveying" old gear.
I was delivering a report to the wardroom.
He started going through a box of stuff.
"Anyone want an old Argus camera?"
No...