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here is me and my semi auto vickers and no forum to post in so I will post here and add a bren gun video so its not O/T:D
I picked up a Mk1 muzzle protector marked w.w and am curious as to what maker that was.
http://youtu.be/Nepss5LsOFA
http://youtu.be/xLK-WnSTL7I
Tres cool.
Which semi build is that? Did you build it? Need much more information!!!
well that went as good as the titanic
Fewer Vickers builders than even Bren builders.
I'm in, regardless.
I am in the last group of apprentices that were taught Vickers. And lucky to have been where the very last were used in action. Well, they were withdrawn in two places. Aden with paratroopers and Borneo/Indonesia border with the Gurkhas in 1968. We still had six at Warminster that came out when the need arose.
Mr E, You need a tripod for that there Vickers Gun!! ;)
Water in the jacket, hose and can might not go amiss. While vibration kills machine guns, heat is the biggest killer of MG barrels............
yes I need a tripod but I also need to find one forsale that is correct for this 1942 lithgow when I actually have money to buy it.
I seem to be spending all my money on ammo now
In the real world in which the Vickers lived we didn't really care what tripod went with which gun. Every gun was set up and every tripod was mechanically set-up too. They weren't a matched 'set' so to speak. On that basis, any tripod will suit any gun
Yep, the VSM side plate gun I have is built using an Australian kit with a few British parts mixed in. I installed/packed a new Australian barrel from Dolf Goldsmith since the barrel it came with wouldn't stabilize Mk.8 projectiles. Mk.7 was tumbling at 100 yards and a bit hard on the target stands! It came with a Colt contract tripod missing the data plate and runs like a top.
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Should read Mk.8 was tumbling. Mk.7 ran fine. Need more coffee.
Mr. E, you never did cop to what make semi set up you have there...
Still interested!!!
My wife went to Belton House in Grantham today (Very close to home) and she said 'I'll send you a photo of someone I met at Belton House today'
This is what she sent.
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Fiona Bruce (Antiques Roadshow for you foreign chaps) and a Grand Old Lady. The relevance is that Belton House was the old Machine Gun School back in the day.
any one ever see a .22 barrel for a vickers. as far as I can tell from the description given by the guy who seen it.
it has a .22 bore but a 303 (ish) chamber
Someone brought one to the Small Arms School at Warminster to show us and it looked like one of those (from memory now.....) .303" chambers into which you fed a .303" 'round' that held an offset .22" cartridge. Offset slightly so that the rim fire part aligned with the normal striker in the Vickers lock.
He mentioned that it used the same(?) 'loading cartridges' as a similarly converted rifle - whatever that was - although we did had one or two