New member introductions thread ......

Hi All,
Brian Dick told me about this forum and said another friend Peter Laidler is also on here. Thusly I must admit to knowing both which may or may not help my reputation.

Background: I worked Product Engineering for the Army Small Cal Weapons Lab, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. Next I was transferred to the Special Projects Group for weapons design.

From there I went to Aberdeen Proving Ground as Small Arms Test Director testing weapons from 22LR to 40MM Air Defense Guns.

I rebarrel my own bolt rifles, load my ammo and am a competition shooter and collector.
I hold the following classifications and awards:

High Master Rating in NRA Highpower Competititon.
Master Rating Smallbore Outdoor Prone
Master Rating Police Combat
Distinguished Rifleman Badge
Distinguished Smallbore Prone
Presidents 100
Member of US Dewar Team twice
Member of US Palma Team twice
Member National 4 Man Any Sight Team Smallbore Prone Championship
Five Palma Twenty Tabs
Winner Centenary Trophy National Championships
Winner Palma Trophy Match twice
First competition 1957, Smallbore Outdoor Prone Match
Second Place Canadian Cup Match twice

Well hello all,

Returning to this 'hobby' after many years away, I, many years ago had quite the stock of milsurps! Then I moved to BC and left that behind for a while (...man, if I'd stayed involved...).

Just picked up an M14s, to get back into that .30 cal centerfire way, and looking to add a couple more to the stock, as it were, such as a decent No4 Mk1*, No7 (.22LR), and so forth. My preference is to aim to hit the target far away; the only interesting rifle is an accurate rifle, if you catch my drift.:thup:

Any DCRA No4's out there going cheap, worth buying? :dancingbanana:

halo all harry from belfast just saying hi

Grettings to all

dabilling in some millitria items that have come my over time and have qustions about some things that I never gave much thought about untill recently to much time on my hands I figure
looking forward to aking a lot of dumb qustions

Vietnam 1969 - 1971 P.B.R. s 116 & 117 MRF - 535 river divi. Past director of 6 yrs for the
Boise ID. POW*MIA Assoc.

occupation -:madsmile: been there and done some of that

and thanks Doug (Admin) for your patients

I am a new member addicted to Lee Enfields and Bren's .
Currently one No 4 Mk 1 T plus ` Sporterised ' No 4 Mk 1
Spent many years as Civilian Engineer at Larkhill School of Artillery.( Real toys ranging from 25 Pdrs to 762 mm Honest John.)

Hello,
I'm new here. After many years I've come back to collecting and researching vintage military small arms. I've picked up a number of rifles in the past several years and have enjoyed researching them. I cast my own bullets and reload my ammunition for them. I went to muzzle loading, to lever rifles, to singleshot rifles and now I'm back where I started. A lot to learn and I'm sure I'll learn more on this site.
I live in central Nebraska, USA close to the Platte River.

Cheers,
DocBob

Greetings from Norway :wave:

Came across the site today, and have now spent some enjoyable hours in the Library doing some reading and drooling over the photos.

Figured i had to join when i saw the quality of information available.

Hello all;

I'm a long time lurker first time poster, just saying hi!

This forum is amazing, such a wealth or often times, hard to come by knowledge - it's been a great help in fueling my addiction to cosmoline!

hello my name is john. i live in utah and started collecting 1903 springfield a few years ago. in doing research, i have found the more i know the less i really know about the springfield rifle and all the sub contractors and all the depot rebuild work. viewing threads from you people has helped immensely in starting off in the right direction to look for knowledge.

an example is tooele depot rebuilt guns under ogden utah depot and were so marked OG. also sedgley bought barrels from winchester in quanity and marked them as their own. now that the corporate paper work has come out of hiding, it kind of changes history a little.

thanks for your help

john

A newbie just saying hello.