Tanker or no tanker lets get back to the question of pre, wartime and post war models, where there changes even slight ones to identify the period the pistol was made, like finish, wartime machining...
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Tanker or no tanker lets get back to the question of pre, wartime and post war models, where there changes even slight ones to identify the period the pistol was made, like finish, wartime machining...
Just like Jungle carbine for the No5.
So where did the tanker myth come from. I though it a bit strange that cutting the spur of the hammer off would make all the difference snagging inside a tank, did seem a load of tosh. I used to...
A tanker Enfield usually has a spurless hammer so its only double action. The idea is that the hammer spur doesn't catch on anything inside the tank.
Been offered a mint tanker Enfield revolver. Normal these revolvers are marked with a date but this one seems to have markings but no date, just wondering if this is a post war made pistol as these...
I was looking at pictures and drawings of the Owen smg Mk 1 and Mk 2 and noticed that one drawing showed the rear sight being 1/2 from the back of the receiver and another picture drawing showing the...
So has anyone seen one with case. Anyone seen a early base plate 2 inch mortar by chance.
I have acquired a mint 29mm spigot mortar tail and drum fin. The drum fin is marked PTS 42 anyone know who the manufacture is PTS.
Thanks Bruce just the information i was looking for. I know it can be done. I have just bought a 303 crimp die and will get a collet re-made so there are 3 fingers to the 4 and shape the stab parts...
I am after a .303 crimp die that crimps three notches grooves around the neck like the original wartime cases. Not sure in the shooting world if anyone has made such a die. Its not really for...
My mistake, the aiming rest made of wood is found in the 2" mortar hand book land service 1939 page 26. It think its used with the early Mark 2 2"inch mortar with large base plate as a stable base to...
The 2" mortar doesnt have a fixed firing pin so there is no protruding firing pin until the lever activating the firing mechanism is depressed. I suspect the bore stop for drill rounds may be used...
There's a wooden rest in the small arms training manuals showing such a rest made of wood. There was an armory tool used to remove spent cartridges from tails from recovered practice rounds and a...
Quite a feasible project, tracks and wheels would most probably be tricky. I you make one, i wouldn't mind buying plans for one.
A few pictures of the Mk 2 sight used from 1938- about 42 and the large base plate 2" mortar which was replaced by the small base plate or spade plate model. Be nice to find a deact large base plate...
The last picture or forth picture along is the base plate mortar that I am referring its use with a lensatic sight that was discontinued around 1942. The first picture is know as a spade plate...
So how rare is the 2" mortar with the heavy base plate, all I have seen is the small base plate that looks like a short bit of angle iron. I thought this lensatic sight was discontinued when they...
How rare is the 2" mortar Mk2 lenstatic sight with case, is it in the same class and price as the
lensatic sight used on the Brengun.
Talking about 2" caps they used to leave the caps on HE rounds for certain firing conditions, I can remember some veteran telling me about this. I have also found blown 2" fuzes with the remains of...
I contacted a veterans association and they put me in contact with the Canadian Legion magazine with a lost trail request. Hope to hear something in the new year, fingers crossed.
I would be intrested in the Stens finish, not long from the factory untouched for 70 year, they look parkerized in the photos.
Many thanks, just sent a contact message.
I am from the UK and live in the Bordon Headley Bramshott and Ludshott area Hampshire that was heavily active with Canadian service personnel during WW2 as well as WW1. I have just discovered a...
Let me re-phrase that I have a Bren not DD but made just after DDs, that has all parts for that year of Bren 1941 rather than a mix of Mk2 Mk3 bits added over the years as you see on most Brens. So...
My Bren is 1941 MK 1 with the D logo all matching serial numbers K.6411, all early parts including the correct tripod, when I looked up the date of manufacture its seems to be a November or December...