I checked the Canadian Capture Diary, and your gun (7756) is not present in the S/N listing.
Jumps from 7753 to 7760.
I have 6047, in very rough shape, and am pondering what to do with it. ...
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I checked the Canadian Capture Diary, and your gun (7756) is not present in the S/N listing.
Jumps from 7753 to 7760.
I have 6047, in very rough shape, and am pondering what to do with it. ...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2014/11/Mar20082000420Small-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2014/11/Mar20082001020Small-1.jpg
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DA-181 lives in my gun-room.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2014/11/20140413_171803_zpszhdh6eej-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2012/10/286070_10151025449877242_2050702045_o-1.jpg
Picked this up at the gunshow in Waverley on the weekend.
This is the first of the actually...
The guns were live (at least the Bren, and the Enfields) The .50's in the airplane were not.
More photos here:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/coffee/pics/BREN/
Here's mine:
Dewat....bit of a piece together, bought from Wolverine Supplies in Canada a while back. Looks like the S/N is 2L2236
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Peter, that was the first area I noted too....the fact as well that there are no stake marks on either front and rear pad.
It was spectacular....I have a photo with over a dozen P-51's in it...and that was only the D models.....
Sensory overload for warbirds!
Hello gents,
I was down at Oshkosh over the weekend with my son and some other family, and happened to run across a group of military re-enactors with a pile of WWII kit. Neat to see, alas, time...
Definitely an FN topcover, but not a standard one. I've got a SUIT (Sight Unit Infantry Trilux) in my collection, and it is NOT a SUIT topcover.
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/coffee/trilux.htm
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Had a similar incident here in Nova Scotia a few years back. I drove the RO to the hospital....remarkably quick service when they hear "Firearms malfunction"....
In the end, the determination was...
BP,
Welcome home. I was bobbing off the coast of Misratah for 5 months....a grand time...we left HFX on 26 hours notice...even more fun.
The gun and tripod were not a matched set. The gun is...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2011/09/Bren20Tripod-1.jpg
Well,
Back from deployment, and here's the gun (dewat :thdown: ) plus the tripod and the Traverse Stops I was sold a while...
Dangit....233MB is too big to download at sea...I'll hafta get it when I get alongside!!
NS
Goodday!
I've got a Tripod that's slowly making it's way to the East coast, and will hopefully meet me there when I get home from this deployment in September....but it's missing the stops.
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MLE,
I got your message, and no, alas, CFSAC doesn't appear to be in the plans for me this year....I'm still off the coast of Libya right now...
I have the original box, alas, what I'm after...
Grant,
I have a partially refinished box at home for my #4(T), alas, the gent who owned it prior to myself appears to have re-painted the exterior.
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A tale of two machineguns
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/08/Oct20082013220Small-1.jpg
This is about my favorite pic.
The scope bag does not match the rifle, and the box has been taken apart and...
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/coffee/pics/4T/
Feel free to have a peek!
NS
I have a similar rifle, here's some photos that may be of interest:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/08/Oct20082013320Small-1.jpg
There, depending on the sheen of oil, and the...
Wowzers!
Pretty!!!
Badger,
It sure does look sanded to me as well.
I'm not the expert that some others here are, but here's what mine looks like in the same area:
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