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I picked this holster up online and was both excited and suspicious when it arrived. The condition is seemingly too good for a holster that is 77 years old. The skeptic in me had...

I would like to ask some help from the more experienced guys on this board. I've run across a "DOU 44" rifle with a 4-digit serial number and "ff" underneath it. Does anyone have any idea what the...

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I'm new to the M1 Carbine and just picked up a 5.1M S/N Inland.

I took it shooting the other day and pushed ~ 40 rounds through it. When I took it apart to clean it, I noticed a...

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I'm looking for the knife experts out there to let me know if I found a real M3 knife or if I purchased a repro.

The little research I was able to find focused on the number of pins...

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I recently purchased these flags from someone who claimed to bring them back from a recent trip to Vietnam. He claims to be a vet.

His claim is that these flags were constructed during...

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Recently, I was able to pick some items up as part of a package deal. I need some help with identifying these items:

Item # 1: Helmet cover
I believe this is...

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I thought I might reach out to the collective wisdom of the group in order to answer a question regarding a Type 30 bayonet I recently picked up.

As you can see from the attached...

Thanks for your help, guys. I think I agree with the Austrian guess.

Well....that took the wind out of my sails! Thought I had something pretty cool, not a tourist trinket. :ugh:

Oh well, lesson learned.

Thanks for the information, Bruce & Unprofor.

Thought I'd share this with the group. Picked it up at a flea market today.

I was told it was an NVA/Viet Cong helmet. Other than that, I don't know anything more. If you do, I would like to...

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I was at a flea market this morning and purchased some military items in a lot. Included in the lot were these leather suspenders which he "thought" were German.

They are made...

Thanks everyone. Nice to know its the real thing.

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I'm looking to see if I can get some help determining if this pouch is real or a reproduction. I found it at a surplus store in such great shape, I [I]had[I] to buy it. As I drove home,...

I, too, am now a new member of the '46 M44 club. Ironically, my rifle carries a S/N that is ~ 2500 before yours with the same alpha characters before it. Pretty cool!

I've seen that article as well. Good info.

For me, I've been loading ~49 grains of IMR4895 under a 150 grain FMJBT (Either Hornady or Sierra). Average velocity is ~2700 fps and is pretty close to...