Just an anal point that's been bothering me because it is right there on the rifles.... it is Long Branch... two words, not one.... I just wish that people could get it right.
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Just an anal point that's been bothering me because it is right there on the rifles.... it is Long Branch... two words, not one.... I just wish that people could get it right.
I feel your pain. I have the same feeling when people refer to the markings on their weapons as "stampings!" The tool that makes the mark is a stamp--not the end result. Further a stamping is a thin metal part formed by closing a flat sheet of metal in a series of forming dies. The Brits call them pressings.
I'm with you guys 100% .... :thup:
You know what I hate....
It's the following, in no particular order:
1. Those small bags of relish and ketchup they give you to squeeze onto your hot dog, which usually gets cold before you're done and you throw out 2 lbs. of plastic afterwards. :banghead:
2. Washrooms with those stupid blow hand dryers and no towels. :bash:
3. People with small kids who think it's cute when in expensive restaurants. they let them run up and down the isles playing with their toys like they were in 'Chucky Cheese". :slap:
Ok, I'm done and I feel better ... :bitch: .... :lol:
Oh, and also the "Long Branch" and "stamping" thing as well ... :cheers:
Regards,
Badger
While we are at it.................
It's a "Long Lee" not a "Long Tom".
It's a "Charger" not a "Stripper Clip".
It's a "Striker" not a "Firing Pin".
It's a "Front Trigger Guard Screw" not a "King Screw".
The wood parts are a Fore-end, Front Handguard, Rear Handguard and Butt.
Finally, "Lee-Enfield" has a hyphen.
I'm sure Thunderbox will wade in with a few more and possibly Strangley Brown.
I didn't know that one, of course I collect K98k's ... :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Enfieldlock
Thanks ... :thup:
Regards,
Badger
Strangely Brown - not Strangley Brown....Quote:
Originally Posted by Enfieldlock
Or Strangler Brown........
Comment will i wont i ( Strangley Strangler, Tom Lee stripper, firing striker, king screw butt pressings with a hyphen) no better not might get banned.
Oy!
Picky aren't we now? Throw in that we're speaking "different" languages, plus dialects (I tend toward Southern hillbilly), education and arms experience levels, and its a wonder anything gets stated properly...
'course I'm just a dagnabbed redneck, so don't pay me no nevermind!
"Re-arsenaled" :banghead:
Lighten up. You're going to scare away all of the new people who are trying to lurn..lern..laern. Get educated.
For me Mk1No4, NoIVMkI and Mk4No1 drive me crazy.
I will however accept SMLE MkIII and No1MkIII interchangeably as long as your rifle was made before 1926 when nomenclature changed.
Me too!:thup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger
It is a magazine not a clip and wanting extras to change them out instead of using chargers.
Forced matched.
As in "the serial numbers were forced matched when the rifle was rearsenaled".
So what would be a better term than the above?Quote:
Originally Posted by tiriaq
Renumbered?
Rebuilt?
As in "the bolt was renumbered to match the receiver when the rifle was rebuilt"? "Original serial number lined out and restamped to match the receiver"?
Rearsenaled is just silly. A rifle was never arsenaled in the first place.
"Re-arsenaled"-Unless it went through the arsenal overhaul more than once! (Beyond the usual local level stuff.) Who's got a rifle w/ multiple "FTR" markings?
I've got one that does, can barely read the first one, but it IS there. I should post pics sometime. I got it from SOG a while back, paid extra for a specific year and maker. They gave me what I asked for, but man, it is rough. So I can't complain too bad! It won't fire a round; bolt is messed up. Was going to send it back but got hooked on all the hieroglyphics on the receiver.
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Originally Posted by jmoore
Does anyone know where this term: “re-arsenaled” originated ??? I have never seen it in US publications, is it used any where in UK publications??? Effects me like the sound of scraping dried mud off a shovel .
And where did “King Screw” come from?? And no rude comments please.
45B20
I heard that "re-arsenaled" originated as text in ads from a large US milsurp distributor. No idea if it's actually true.
I attribute "rearsneled" to postings on the internet. I first noted the use when I was starting out reading the internet postings. I feel this is in keeping with the typical new generation short hand developed for texting.
Another sore point is Ishy for Ishapore and Lithy for Lithgow. It is difficult to take people seriously who can't spell or expect others to "know what they mean" by using cutesy shorthand. I note a correlation between them and the ones who won't buy a reference book because the internet will tell them all they need to know. Apparently it has not dawned on them that the internet like policticians can and often lies.
breakeyp
My thoughts exactly , likewise on Remmy and Whinny. My feelings are that this baby talk is degrading our hobbies/interests and in some cases obsessions. With the political climate I think it is important to keep an adult attitude about the different forums. Someone said we should not scare the newbies away, perhaps we should try to educate the interested ones and discourage the ’want-to-be’ gamers. This would be difficult, with out being too offensive. Perhaps a block on some words when posting, or a PM from time to time.
Maybe the monitors have some thoughts on this???
45B20
To,Too and Two. Some don't know the difference!
Your and you're, and the folks who take it upon themselves to correct your "grammer".
It's the people who insist on calling a hoover a thing which nature abhors, a lift an aeroplane's rear control surface, and a car boot a piece of luggage....
Simply damnable, old boy!!
Another item worthy of note is the "I "scored" this at auction." Scoring is a sports term and also the means and result of creating deep scratches in something.
I doubt most auctions would condone a customer scratching the heck out of their goods! However, it is an interesting concept.
I blame all you wild North American colonials - and those equally wild antipodeans for fouling up the language. In fact I think it's about time that we sent a gunboat over there to sort you out once and for all. That'll teach you all a spiffing, spanking good lesson!
I believe that's already been tried a couple of times. :D
'Atz roight! You tell 'em stroight up guv'nor! These 'ere blokes wot can't spoike the Qween's Henglish, sum of 'em need helocution lessons oi'd zay!;)
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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
I don't think your Health and Safety people will allow that sort of thing anymore.
One thing about a living language you can always blame the other bloke. Bloody P.O.Ms still cant speak the Queens English let alone Strine. I think (i know thats dangerous) that stiff upper lip is to blame along with some other pursuits known only to that bunch of hooligans. How yar going me old mate P t P.
Just found a couple of lonely girls looking for a new home the names are Sht Le and SMLE.
Besides all that, by now we have TWO guns behind every blade of grass!! LOL
I came looking for Long Branch's and learned something. But my pet hate is members not giving an Location and a little more than Australia, USA or England. Get over it, Big Brother doesn't care a ****.
Myles
Old Long Branch Plant
My posts give my bed time location. MostlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Bearclaw
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Originally Posted by Bearclaw
T'ain't Big Brother I'm concerned about. Besides, I'm fairly mobile, and don't even have a computer at the house. If it's important I might let individuals know, otherwise, MYOB.
Mr Moore,
I do appoligise, I don't want to know your business. Not that I want to know, just makes it easier to know whether I am talking to an Aussie, Canadian, POM or Yank, as our humours differ, by this I mean, am I serious about this or not. I just don't want to offend, as not many understand the Aussie's humour and bluntness.
Myles
Hey Doug, nice block of land you have there. You must be rich.
Hey Guys!!!!!!!!!!! You need to discover women!!!!!!
Bearclaw, Doug only owns that block of land in is wet dreams. That is the old Long Branch factory site.
A few years ago, I took an Australian friend on a spring bear hunt with me. I know this is off topic but it's wandering anyway. We got him a very nice North American Black Bear from the southern interior of British Columbia. The bear was 6ft 3 1/2 inches from tail to snout. A very decent boar.
He knows little or nothing about milsurps, not much about sporting rifles or pistols either. Darn good fisherman though. He took a 43 pound Tyee from coastal waters off Price Rupert, the following year. Great fellow, up for anything.
The reason I'm telling you this, is that he has developed an interest in hunting and shooting but says it's very difficult to get into it where he is. I suspect, this may be because of where he lives more than any other reason. He lives just outside of Perth. I don't rememer the name of the place off hand. His neighbors, were quite impressed with his bear skin rug. His wife's relatives were mortified and berated him liberally. Strange land indeed.
You're right about a different sense of humor, although I think Canadians and Australians share a love of sarcasm and bluntness.
Thanks Bearhunter,
Looking through Ian Skennerton's book and it show's the factory site and saw the simililarity of the two. I put two and two together and saw Doug's joke.
Your mate was lucky, wish I could go on a bear hunt. A mate was supposed to bring me back a bear claw but I don't think he left the pub. Nothing dangerous over here other than scrub bulls and Croc's which the latter are protected, but they sure make fishing interesting.
Myles
I spent 5 years on a Cree indian reserve where there were almost as many black bears as people.
Most were nice neighbors like this...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../mom_cub-1.jpg
Some weren't...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...1/bear_3-1.jpg
Oh, lard Jays, me old son, I knows 'bout de Queen's H'English: ye drops yer aitch in 'Olyrood an' picks 'er hup in H'Avondale. Da onest ye got dat squared away, I c'n tel yiz 'bout hice, den we gets de gaffs and goes fer a coppy crost de battycatters. Now fer de big quschun: is youse come chutch sunny h'even 'longside we?
You think the English, the Americans and the Australians destroy the language, friends, you haven't lived a few years in an isolated Newfoundland outport! The above is a mix of dialects from Seldom-Come-By and Change Islands, by the way.
I have learned a great deal on this thread. For one really important point, I now know what a King Screw might be. I have been reading the term on the Internet for the last four years and had no idea what it was for sure, just that the term was being used and it definitely was NOT in any of my manuals.
One thing I would really like to know is the origin of the term "Pom". We don't use it here, largely for fear of what the English might call some of us!
I think I now shall run away and play with my Winnie (1886) and my Remmy (1871), my Mousie (also 1871) and the Lugies and Webbies and such..... at least until those nice young chaps with the butterfly nets haul me away!
This is fun!
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Bear Claw, I hear and see from a few Aussie publications that you have some fair sized and nasty wild hogs. Bears aren't particularly dangerous. Most aren't. The few that are, give the rest a bad name.
It''s all you foreigners spoiling our language with your speeling misteaks too
Bear Hunter, you have too worry about the drop bears. Blood thirsty buggers them, rip your juggler with one quick swipe of their claws. No chance when they drop out the trees, they don't speak of them because tourists are already scared of the spiders. snakes and crocodiles. Bloody scary buggers.
Bloody big boars down here, there is only one way to fix em and that is .303.
Myles
here we got the gougers. Side hill gougers. Very vicious. They live only on side hills and the legs are shorter on one side. Because of this they are very fast and dangerous. 303 works.