The single greatest thing to ensure a rifle retains value is to document it if possible. The second would be to buy it cheap. :)
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The single greatest thing to ensure a rifle retains value is to document it if possible. The second would be to buy it cheap. :)
I can see that, and the front sight has been replaced. If re-barreled, that's a moot point.
Front sight has been replaced.
Appears to be a Greek return based on the finish loss.
Sadly, the reloader is at fault ultimately. He induced the variable into the system and the rifle responded in the mechanical language of tolerances.
As a competitive shooter.
No, it doesn't matter.
Until it doesn't work honestly.
The internet is parroting a manufacturing drawing specification. That's great if you need a tab to drawing tolerance.
The most important part is to research the original buyer, the rifle itself is the ancillary portion of the story.
Steven, asphaltum was a form of black paint applied to 1903 rear sight bases, and the **barreled-receivers external surfaces (**I believe).
Evidence of it here:...
The match stocks still fit the dimensions. They simplified the paragraph, Mac stocks still work.
Sounds like a club gun. The condition that I saw of the rifle indicates as such. Type 2, but heavily used.
Supports the CMP mission, every dollar counts. Maybe it will get more M1s to shooters for the price paid. Many forget what the M1s are for.
An F6F Hellcat serves as the backdrop for a group photograph of the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga's (CV 14) Marine Detachment taken on August 19, 1945, sixty-five years ago today.
A salvage crew lifts F4U-1 #576 (BuNo 02576) "Marine's Dream" upright after a landing accident on Torokina in December 1943. Captain Ed Olander used this Corsair to destroy a Mitsubishi Zero on 17...
Image from, "Dying for Saint-Lô: Hedgerow Hell, July 1944"
Rough French caption translation:
According to Didier Lodieu page 63 Dying for Saint-Lô, this photo with the following caption:
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Slideshow of several more pictures, a few with M1s and their very bright gas cylinders.
LINK -------> : The Photo That Won World War II | LIFE.com
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http://i.imgur.com/gwgUzth.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2014/03/gwgUzth-1.jpg
An exhausted American soldier falls sound asleep on the Buna Mission beach [685 × 929] Feb 1943
USS California, August 1945.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2014/02/2opHLvB-1.jpg
The caption stated: 4.5-inch Navy barrage rockets fly off two International Harvester Trucks at Iwo Jima, 1945 [2935 × 2251]
The effect on the target of the Beach Barrage Rocket was described as...
Not much of an equipment guy, but others may have comments.
http://i6.minus.com/ibhZ7eGwnfn74a.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2014/01/ibhZ7eGwnfn74a-1.jpg
Thought I would share this, in case it gets buried in the current news cycle. I also have a personal connection, as my wife is Navajo.
Last Of The Navajo Code Talkers Draws Huge Crowd | Wisconsin...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2013/10/Orm3FBP-1.jpg
Could this of been in England?
Edit: Caption found
Lt. Gen. Patton with Maj. Gen. Walter Robertson pass in review of Third Army Troops in April 1944 prior to the Normandy invasion in June. US...
Here's the link to the original image I linked in the OP. Shows more detail in higher resolution.
http://i.imgur.com/4CXpKEd.jpg
Bradley too?
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2013/10/4CXpKEd-1.jpg