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Question for you guys...I found a 1905 Ross in a local shop that I am considering buying - it hasn't had the barrel or stock cut down, and the stock is marked up with unit numbers. However, the...

Thanks guys!

I don't know if the owner (who is not named Marcus - I think I'm missing an in-joke there) wants to publish the serial number, but it's not 259...

I got a photo from a person with an Underwood carbine that has a 3-digit serial number starting with the letter "E". Does anyone know what this indicates?

It has a 5-groove barrel.

I recently picked up a No4 sniper that was in Indian service. I've been doing a bunch of reading here (having found nothing in print regarding Indian snipers), and it looks like this is a British...

Here's the video I got of the gun at RIA:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2p85ImYjAA

BP - I do have lean a bit over the stock, but it's not that big of a deal. The bolt handle is on the right side, which is convenient for me, and of course the mag catch is ambidextrous. Overall, I...

Thanks - I appreciate the insight!

Peter, the carry handle was missing from my parts kit, and I just haven't had the chance to get a new one yet. My front grip was a repro from IMA, which worked quite well. It's still a really heavy...

I've been waiting a while, but finally got my 7.62x39 Bren back as a live semiauto. As it happened, it arrived the day before this weekend's 2-gun action match...so I took it right out.

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Unfortunately, I don't - but then again, the 7.62x39 is a whole lot cheaper to shoot.

It will have the appropriate semiauto denial material welded in, although it doesn't need to be chopped up to do that. The guys doing the build have an 07 SOT, so they can legally do testing like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHXYYMPKATw

Yep, I definitely will!

FWIW, I am going to that auction and I'll be getting video of that rifle, so we can get a better idea of how it's supposed to work.

Does anyone happen to know what material was used for Bren bolts (7.92mm Inglis ones, specifically) and how deep they were hardened?

The locking lugs look fine (and the rifle does have its ejector; it was just compressed all the way in that photo). I took the rear sight bridge off, and it looks like the left side guide rail behind...

I just got a pretty nice MkIIIB Ross, but the bolt is giving me some trouble and I wonder if anyone else has experience with the problem. When fully opened, the bolt head often (about 50% of the...

Alrighty, I'll give the Enfield clips a less half-hearted attempt when the IIIB arrives. Thanks!

This may be a dumb question, but what type of stripper clip does the Ross MkIII use? I tried loading one from a normal Enfield clip once, and had no luck at all - should I assume that was poor...

How's this for an epilogue? I just won a batch of rifles at Rock Island Auction which includes a pretty nice looking MkIIIB (which is why I was bidding on the lot). It's in full military trim, and...

I didn't spend much time practicing installing an unsafe bolt; I simply didn't find it particularly difficult to do. I do have a lot of hands-on time taking apart all sorts of odd guns, so it might...

FYI, my video is complete and posted at Forgotten Weapons this morning. I was expecting the bolt to actually come out of the gun, but it didn't. When the locking lugs hit the bolt stop, the rearmost...