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Agreed about the Aussie MG Sgt doing the work, read the book.


ISBN 9781898697756 / 1898697752

Naturally. Dwarfish even.

Looks mostly serviceable now.

It really is about four different rifles combined. That shows you how much stuff they had lying around to work with.

OK, so I did. It's poorly stamped but you expected that... Also head harness date is late but I knew that. Closer pic of the white Greek cross. Mine too has rust and it had lay out I expect 6-12...

Well done both.

I'll have a look later but my attempt this am was a bust. Lots of glasses and bright lights...

Well, you folk certainly had(have) some large stuff acquiescing. No surprise there.

US navy issue, here's what it looked like before being carved down...

No, that's the real deal all right. Nice and new too. I always thought their liners looked like a kids toy though, compared to the US made or ours. I see they made them in the early pattern of...

Usually a base fuse but in this case no room for one. I'd think this would have a nose fuse replaced before firing or it becomes a penetrating projectile. Remember the armor of then wasn't much,...

Perhaps a used one from a gun show? It SHOULD be ok anyway, you just need to flush the ends off inside and it'll hold fine. Perhaps you could get hold of one of the sub cal casings that use a 32...

I have one I picked up in Nicosia Cyprus in 1975 out in the UNPA, outside the walled city. Head harness has a lift the dot fastener and the chinstrap is a spongy one that slides in the loops. The...

Here's the one I have that compares, my others don't. Mine has a hole for tracer element though and a much larger explosive compartment.

The holster looks like a military flap that's been altered with snips, the flap has been cut back. No marking? I've seen those too.

As they point out...

" This is the standard Navy issued...

Perhaps a Redfield peep with a left side base that could lie flat? Only thing there is the hinge pin. Measure the probable distance to the aperture center and choose one.

This would have been an...

Our rifles were getting metal fatigue and started to break ejectors. There were two kinds in ours, one was a large wide block that filled the whole bottom and the other had just the ejector on it...

It was sold locally, as in somewhere out here on the west coast. I was never privy as to where. It was nice, missing the lock(bolt) itself. I had one here from a Vickers but not close enough. ...

And they're all using the 0LA0000 type number? The upper/lower aren't different from the C1 lower except the number. I've seen C2s using dressed up C1 receivers.

We were hosting a range for mostly civilian contractors that had business with the military. Big dollar bosses. They were shooting all out various things as a public relation thing.


That's...

I used the grenade launcher on an M1 at one point when I lived in the prairies to see how far an old launching cartridge would send it. Just a training grenade, went about two hundred yards launched...

I've seen it lots but wouldn't do it as they have no purpose to us. I had the sight complete and still in the paper wrap when I sold it 30 years later...

We referred to this as "Balancing" the rifle. We didn't use drill bits and we did attempt to set rifles at 4 on the gas regulator...but when balancing with ball you'd find out where yours shot best....

Cadets made purchase out of a different purse, often their equipment wasn't exactly military.

I don't remember ever seeing anything but a stamped ink marking. I've slept in lots worse than those wool blankets, never noticed itch.