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10 December 2024 Garand Picture of the Day
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There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Early Colt or Marlin-Rockwell BAR and he still took the flash tube off. Those early guns were nice... I had a Marlin Rockwell.
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The island campaigns were a bloody affair just plain brutality on another level.
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Early Colt or Marlin-Rockwell BAR and he still took the flash tube off. Those early guns were nice... I had a Marlin Rockwell.
Jim could you point out what attributes you see that indicate early Colt or Marlin - Rockwell
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Originally Posted by
Mark in Rochester
what attributes you see that indicate early Colt or Marlin - Rockwell
None particularly, the long forend is the early one and once they had the A2 those came off and didn't go back on. I have reason to believe he's a Marine on Guam, they got the early models and used them up. They still had some for Korea. I forgot to mention the Winchester made first run...my mistake. It really could be any of the three makers, the later WW2 made A2s were Royal Typewriter and in Korea was N.E.S.A., which I had examples of each.
No particular features tell me it's anything but one of the early made guns...three makers.
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The early Model 1918 BAR used a walnut butt stock and US Enfield 1917 butt plate and I think rear sight leaf. the rear sight was different from the 1918A2. The trigger housing did not
have the two magazine guides and the early model had semi and full auto. The walnut fore-end covered the sides of the barrel and had heavy checkering, the gas regulator was early too.
Now alot of these parts were modified during WW2 to up grade the model
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Originally Posted by
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The early Model 1918 BAR
As you say, the one shown shows no magazine guides, they added some with screws as a mod until they produced them. The rear sight has a slight hump at the back, the later protective box was bigger. Can't see the butt, my Marlin Rockwell still had a walnut butt but had been altered for the monopod. The long checkered forestock was originally a feature of the A2 but changed soon with production.
Also the originals had a beautiful deep polished blue. That would have to go...
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Removing the flash tube was not an inspired idea if one had to shoot at night. The flash would blind the shooter.
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Removing the flash tube
I could see why when they were taking off the bipod and making it more like a rifle but the stainless tube of the early guns didn't weigh much. Didn't make sense to me.
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