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Best to let them all see Help for Heroes t-shirts appearing wherever they are. The b*gger was apparently roughed up by the Kenyan Army on his way to Somalia. Good to see that Kenya´s still got a...

Looks like that mucky load of old bullets would cause a thick layer of scum to form and impurities would almost certainly be responsible for the cavities. On another subject, I´ve found a cheap,...

Woolwich attack: how to donate to Help For Heroes - Telegraph

... Serviceman run down by two savages in their car (`converted´ moslems) and brutally hacked to death for wearing a `Help for...

Been trying to order mine since the news last night. The site´s blocked. Suppose half the population´s been trying to order.

Can you give us a link to those two French sites?

Collecting can be quite a problem here. There´s a special `collectors´ licence, and I don´t know if you can even shoot your collection. No, I´ve...

No to all of that (especially of being .... French). Too young to have been WWII ... or to have used the Metford (just Suez and LE No. 4).

What do you think of the TWO (!) Werder pistols on eGun...

Can´t quite make out whether my carbine is stamped ChL or ChR (think it´s ChL).
Have been through Flanders (several times) and it always fill me with dread, seeing all those miles of WW1 military...

Ok Jarmann. Made a healthy pfrofit on the Werder tool. Pity it´s not the right number. Thanks for the info on the .348 & 43 Spanish. Am still waiting for the Horneber cases (Johannsen says they...

Very happy to hear from you, jarmann! I got the Werder tool off e-Gun. Zimmermann hasn´t been able to find the original sling I´m looking for (a shoulder sling with a carbine hook). How does the...

Made in the 1970s for the Trucial Omani Volunteer Camel Corps Cadets. (The question I´d like to ask is: why?)

I find the Werder mechanism fascinating. As the carbine uses the shorter Werder ammunition, the problem of being able to purchase brass is acute. Buffalo can no longer export brass and the only...

I expect, at this point, it might well be ... ME. I´m looking around for someone who´s a bit better, but the others at the range stay at max. 100 metres with arm long telescopic lenses so they´re not...

This whole casting business is turning into rocket science. I´ve not tried it on a full moon etc. but re-melting the duds is no great bother. Can now get most rounds into the standard 10 inch German...

Ok ... thanx Patrick. The old BP must have had a considerably greater volume per unit of weight than Swiss No. 2. I was thinking of maybe using a sizer (just `cos the bullets look nicer) and then...

Just two further queries .... I cast bullets from a Hensold mould made to a Serrosafe casting of the barrel, chamber and muzzle end. If I used a sizer, would it change the calibre so that it no...

Still, I would like to see what the original screw really looks like.

Yes, looks chrome plated. You were lucky to get such nice furniture. It´s turned out to be a beaut.

My problem is getting each casting to a similar weight. Can hardly hope for precision with quite large differences in bullet weight. I have to reject about 40% of castings just to achieve a limit of...

Short rifles (carbines) are definitely interesting. Especially the national characteristics of theirusage: the German short carbine was the (Czech) Mauser 33/40 "Gebirgsjäger" ("mountain huntsman")....

Nice looking workmanship. Wish I could do that!

Lucky you ... in Bielefeld! Now let me know your secret so that I can get one here in Berlin ... please!

Now that IS impressive! The short barrel Werder´s never going to be that accurate. I blow through the barrel after every round (but don´t think it makes much difference ... maybe the beer fumes clean...

Yes, made in .22lr (by Erma). And Krieghoff certainly know how to make rifled barrels. And it´s certainly still very competitive. AND it doesn´t have a barrel that flaps about like a ...

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The P08 (Luger) is still in use and in production (by Krieghoff and, I believe, in China). It entered service in 1904 and its ammunition, the ubiquitous 9mm Para is the most widely used calibre with...