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Thanks guys! Unfortunately all of the info I have is what I already posted.

Not sure why, but I did not get an e-mail notification about the replies, just came back now to check - I will scope...

let's try for pics here....

OK I see how to do it, but these files are huge and the forum will not accept them.

Back to the drawing board - probably by sending the pics to badger.... :help:
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A friend of mine has two older rifles, which appear to me to be milsurps. He is in Nova Scotia, I am in Kingston Ontario. He is NOT a gun guy, so let us say that the information is somewhat...

Well, I reckon my guess that it was an early production Cooey would not have washed..........

Any time I read these boards I realize how much I REALLY do not know. And the hard part is, I don't...

I am not sure why, but the website did NOT tell me that there was a response to my post - glad I checked! ;)

Well, the one rifle is currently being cleaned up by a smith, so it will become...

This is a small show, a LOT smaller than Perth for sure. The show organizer, to whom reference has already been made, has taken great pains to keep the flea market type stuff out of the show. He...

In the past few months I have seen two rifles that I am fairly certain are Berthier Model 1907 rifles chambered for the 8 mm Lebel cartridge. Both were in very rough shape and missing the magazines....

There is a lad looking for advice on another Canadian forum:

Western Canada Hunting Forums - 577 Snider

And I referred him over here, hope you fellows can help him out!

Doug

Has this gone away? :confused: I cannot see it anywhere...........

..........and I did have an ad posted a month or two ago........:dunno:

Doug

I had a Longbranch with no serial number on it, and asked a few of the experts that I knew about it. Badger contacted another Longbranch expert, who gave his opinion that the rifle was likely made...

or you can SELL the links to younger folks who yearn for anything halfways "authentic" in military firearms and ammo...........

Doug

Hey Bruce!

You might try to contact 762nato on Gun Nutz. Andy has loaded some of this, and his one group that I watched him shoot (five rounds rapid fire at a hundred yards, iron sights) was as...

Me too!

As Andy knows, one of my buddies is deer hunting with one of my Sniders this year and another buddy of mine loaded up some duplex rounds for me, which are reasonably accurate:

Federal...

OK now I have to find that picture of me after the deer attack.....

;-)

Doug

Good work, folks!

Not that I am a milsurp addict like a bunch of you fine people, but I do from time to time stumble across something that catches my eye. And heck, I can't NOT be a member on a...