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ok guys i found this gun at a online auction.thinking about getting it its a martini carbine in .303 .but dont know the date on it
guy says 1895 i thought it was 1910. if it is 1895 it will have a metford rifling right? heres a imgur link to the gun Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet any help is will make me happy. this will be my first martini if i get it :)
ok i found out it is 1916.this should take smo
keless powder right? is $499 a good price?
A very nice historic collectible piece. I would be very cautious about firing it with smokeless powder. A date is not sufficient evidence to assume it is safe for smokeless powder. Perhaps reduced loads??
Nice looking old piece for sure. I'd take it for that. I'd be very cautious too about what ammo I put through it.
Since the DoD has gone batshit crazy and anti-gun the only guns a GI can bring back are "antiques." Afghan bazaars near a US facility have for sale goodly number of "hundred" year old guns built in the Khyber pass region last week. They turn up hereabouts sometimes.
While Kabul arsenal guns are of high quality, they didn't follow the exact production standards of the Brits, so it could have Henry, Metford or Enfield rifling (I have .303 examples in each). It really doesn't matter too much since the problem with Metford rifling was the erosion with cordite. You won't be shooting cordite, so no problem. When new these were made to shoot standard Brit .303 ammo and did so for decades. The reason for reduced loads now is the same for any gun of that era.....including the over rated M98 Mauser. Metal fatigue is cumulative and there is no way of know what events the rifle has been exposed to in the past. Looks can be very deceiving, and the only reliable tests for fatigue in steel are destructive in nature....so caution is warranted. Again, not because of design or quality of build, but because you don't know what has happened over the past century to this particularly rifle. Besides, the highest and best use of these arms at this date is punching holes in paper and just how much PSI do you need to do that?