Afghanistan Weapons Cache

I wonder if there's anything valuable in this mess....

Afghanistan Weapons Cache (click here)

Regards,
Badger

I'd be willing to bet they clean up well. Afghanistan is very dry and arid, mostly dust is the issue. Dust and surface mold.

Two things they seem to have ALOT of:
-Enfield No.4's
-MN 91/30 bayonets.

Those are not 91/30 bayonets, but the much rarer socket-ring MN 1891 bayonets!

"Five minutes alone, that's all I need..."

In my dreams ;)

Always fun to see such weapon casches.
I recall seeing a weapons depot in Bosnia. Tons of mg34's and other neat stuff.

BTW, those are bren guns we see in a couple of those pictures, right?

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Originally Posted by Skippy

"Five minutes alone, that's all I need..."

In my dreams ;)

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I think we are on the same page Skippy:super:

As if...check out the pristine wood just under the dust in the eight pic!
How do you get invited to these little excursions?
On second thought, I don't want to know.
Jeez.
So...when can we expect the FLOOD of 100 buck Enfields?!:D

If I was there I would be like a kid in a candy store.:beerchug:

Looks to me like some of these were dipped in old motor oil before storage. There is a chance that perhaps a minority of these rifles would be in good condition but I seriously doubt it.

For those rifles I did get to see there was very little blueing left. These things have been used, abused and probably never properly cleaned. A nice place to collect some wall hangers or a collection of parts in my opinion.

It would take me several hours to root through the chaff but I am sure I could fill the back of a toyota pickup with some goodies. There was a huge stack of no4's and PPSH's.

I also found it interesting/sad that there were literally tons of cheap surplus subguns like the PPSH and the M3 dumped on Afghanistan.