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This was on a dealer's table at the Kempton Park fair in the UK. It is only the 2nd time I've seen one in the flesh. Pouches are dated 1916. Mag is marked Linley & Co. The asking price seemed to vary throughout the day but ended up as £2,000. I didn't buy it.
Nice...if it were here. they'd have us drilling a hole and inserting pop rivets to limit the capacity to five.
Funny how this can be owned in the UK , but not here in California.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nigel
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-In California it would have to be made into a 10-round but un-reversible; so pop rivets would not be allowed.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Correct me if I am wrong on the 20rd magazine - but was there a LMG (limited service) in india that also used this 20rd magazine ?
RCS
Yes that is where the Mags were sent which is why they are so scarce. Stop gap measure till the Bren manufacturing caught up
Yes, I gather that with a little modification they would fit the Vickers Berthier LMG.
In the last model of the Vickers-Berthier they fit without modification. And they fit in the NZ Charlton Automatic Rifle.
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Originally Posted by Nigel
A No4 20 round magazine sold about 2 years ago at (a UK) auction - I was out at £200 and it went a little (not much) higher.
Maybe I should have stayed in a bit longer !
This was it ....................
I thought the concensus was that one was modern as it had tig welding on the base?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan de Enfield
I was the winning bidder of that mag. Here it is refurbed and fitted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan de Enfield
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It reminded me of this one.
Always wanted to buy it...
Mauser Gewehr 98 Trench Magazine - 20rd Capacity | Keep Shooting
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Originally Posted by Roy W
Great job - well done. Glad it went to a good home.
I'm envious.
As a resident if California, I can only dream.....very nice job!
Hotchkiss M1922 , M1924 and M1926 LMG. Could be fed either through the top mounted mag (SMLE 20 round was one type but the Spanish had a mag for 7x57) or variations could use the usual side-feeding Hotchkiss strip or the three-cartridge-per-link strip belt. The majority of countries used the strip feed.
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I some how got 2 that were vet bring backs. I didnt even know what they were for until I started to ask around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ovidio
When they trialed them in the trenches in WWI the troops pretty much said they were shite citing the extra length snagged everything, made the rifle feel unwieldy, they never fully loaded them, suffered from mud incursion fouling them and in general hated them so they were withdrawn from service.
Pretty much every nation that tried these gave up on them, and for much the same reasons.
Interesting that after WWII the military went to large capacity magazines hanging below the rifle, with no problems. Thinking had changed evidently and so had the rifles.
The way of loading had changed for sure. The rifles were top loaded in that worst-of-conditions war and stuffing mud covered clips into an open action...as you well know, isn't good. With the advent of the contained magazine and bottom loading things changed. We might have had some more results from the Browning Auto Rifle if it had seen a couple years use. I don't recall ANY user results at all, don't think it even made the war. All the pics I remember are Val Browning demonstrating in 1919.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daan Kemp
I remember an FN giving me some problems in sandy-snowy-wet conditions. It was reluctant to close completely but with some effort it still worked.