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Which brings us to two more unofficial modifications to the Denison smocks. The 1st pattern smock lacked the additional snaps to secure the tail-piece when not in use and led to many removing it...

Aragorn, I took a ton of Pattern 37 web gear to the gun show in Fort Worth last weekend and only sold a well used post war Fairburn Sykes fighting knife, a N.O.S. Browning HP holster, a NOS canteen...

tj, this might answer some of your questions: look on p. 135 of David's most recent book on uniforms covering modifications of the Denison smock. He states that special modification of the smock...

As far as I know there is no errata sheet for David's series of books. His latest edition of the 3 book set is labelled "Revised and Expanded" and I asked him about that when they came out and was...

Fortunately American gear is relatively easy to date since all US military clothing and gear has a tag or stamp that contains the contract number. By following the numbering system you can easily...

In his book David Gordon did mention that gravity knives were also issued to SOE and OSS members which could account for the C.O.S.D. stamps.

British paratroopers and aircrew were issued gravity knives that could be opened or closed with one hand by rotating a thumb lever 180 degrees and then letting gravity extend or retract the blade. ...

I bought a laptop with the 7th Gen Intel Core i7 processor soon after they were introduced in 2017 and 8 years later it's still running like a champ. If I remember it was around $1,200 when...

Who knows what the thought process was that came to the conclusion that the new SIG round was the way to go although I'm sure we can agree that cost to the taxpayer wasn't part of the conversation. ...

I remember there being small differences between Brit production rear sights and the Canadian ones so I had to go back and check in my books. Reading Stratton's book I ended up up getting bogged...

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(I copied and pasted 'thank you' in Cyrillic and it came up question marks,)

That's a very generous offer Daan. The last PH5A I bought from ePay cost me over $300 (USD).

According to the The Ross Rifle Story the Home Guard Ross's serial numbers fell into 1 of 2 clusters: 12125 - 12611 and then 13863 - 17977. By the end of 1914 15,850 MkIII rifles had been delivered...

M74 is the Russian 5.45 X 39 round. Why the can is also stamped 7.62 is a puzzler.

Here's a previously unknown, at least to me, sight for the M1905 Ross Rifle. I saw this while perusing gun sales on an online website, made by BSA Martin which is a collaboration I'm unfamiliar...

Does anyone know when the Home Guard Ross MkIII rifles were built? From the Ross Rifle Story I've gleaned that the first deliveries of Canadian issue MkIII Ross rifles began in April of 1914 and...

Quite coincidentally a flyer from Poulin Auctions arrived in the mail today and there are two Commercial Ross M1910 rifles in .280 Ross, serial numbers 9817 and 16377.

2 DAY ONLINE FIREARMS...

I have one of the Home Guard Ross rifles in my collection which is in excellent condition, even better condition than the other HG Ross rifles I've seen. Mine is unpinned and has the tight unaltered...

Too true. My M1891 Argentine was all matching down to the clearing/cleaning rod. I even checked the brass muzzle cover for a serial number!

Beautiful rifles both. I especially appreciate WWI dated rifles, if only they could speak.

My nephew is a USMC 0331 Machine Gunner who was trained on and still uses the M240B although the U.S. Army is looking to replace their GPMG's with the XM250 which fires that crazy hot new round: the...

I've been doing a little research and the first question that came to mind was did EAL rifle and Tasco riflescope production run concurrently? EAL rifles appear to all have been made in the '40's,...

I guess things were different with the Engineers left on the West Coast, especially after CFB Chilliwack was closed and access to the Vokes range became problematic so we did our live fire training...

True, but that doesn't preclude someone from mounting a Tasco scope onto an EAL rifle at some later date. I never heard of the Tasco line of riflescopes until the mid-Eighties when a local gun store...

That displays a concern for the troops that would be under the flight of the bullets during the exercise. In the CF we held a Crack-Thump training exercise where we were taught to gauge the distance...