Have one that needs some repair.
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Have one that needs some repair.
Sir:
Milled parts mean nothing. Stamped parts mean nothing. It is a commercially made, cast receiver of questionable quality assembled with whatever random collection of GI parts they had on hand,...
I have shot M-1s in NM shoots to 600 yards and occasionally a few times at 1,000. With the same 173 gr. bullet the elevation adjustments for the .30'06 M-1 and the 7.62mm M-1 firing match ammo will...
I have an IHC welded repaired receiver gun I bought from Elmer Ballance in 1966 for $80. It came glassed with all NM parts. At the time I used it for a practice rifle, not wanting to use up my DCM...
Just in case anyone wonders... In my college days I tried using 168 SMKs (at the time sold as the "International" bullet) for deer hunting... twice. One opened beautifully on a lung shot with a...
Yeah but if it is a sporter it may have a receiver sight or scope already... he may not care if it has a rear sight base... in fact, he may not want one.
Who makes that M-16-edy Thermold-looking M-1A mag; what is capacity, does it work?
I thought we used Match ammo for snipers. Is a HPBT Geneva Convention legal (ne'er mind the Russian 7Ni bullets...)? Or are they using these HPBTs in theatre?
In Townsend Whelen's book MISTER RIFLEMAN, he gives the standard Army MTU 7.62 match load as a 168 gr. SMK plus 39 grains of IMR 3031. This is still a great load although the larger grains of 3031...
Is the "camo" effect somewhere in the middle of the rifle? If so it may be a welded-repaired receiver. Make sure the front half says IHC on the side. If it says another manufacturer, it is a repaired...
Check off another satisfied Bassett customer - me,
JCG accuracy job or full house NMC treatment?
I have lived in an unairconditioned Quonset in the PI during summer, for 4 months. I don't recommend it. Everytime I see HEARTBREAK RIDGE or a cut from an old TV show or movie with those things it...
I watched a guy shoot the 2008 Texas State Garand match with a rifle that had a hooded rear sight aperture. Nothing was said. Basically, it hinges on who looks at your rifle, if at all. If you win,...
I still have the blowup pix on my phone; just looked at them the other day. BTW the end of it was: SA Inc. had him return the rifle, and they then replaced the D-Day commemorative with a new M-1A. My...
S&S Firearms has all the parts you'll need including a graftable new front end for the stock.
The Spanish partisan leader in Gary Cooper's FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (Spanish Civil War epic) carries a Krag carbine, probably a '96.
Your stock - in fact the entire rifle - looks just like my "sewerpipe" 98. My rifle was purchased at Deep River Armory in Houston in about 1967.
Note early solid walnut handguards. Pretty sure I saw this one in high school ROTC.
About 30 round magazines during the Vietnam War... I had some for my AR-180 (AR-15's got real hard to find about then) in those days as a college boy '67-'71, and it puzzled me why the men fighting...
The question is totally political. The current administration and ruling party do not like guns, period, and will do anything to minimize if not eliminate our access to them.
End of story now on to...
In your first picture of the gun emplacement... looks like someone made off with the muzzle brake on that German gun.
Almost every M-1 I have needs to have the windage screw tightened up from time to time. You should ALWAYS do this before a match. If you can adjust the sight without too much effort, and cannot...
Photographers in those days often toured areas, took pictures, and later made up pictures and postcards for sale. Possibly the British photographer toured the States and took some shots of people and...
I've tried to think through the possibilities... an errant Cavalry unit on joint exercises with the Horse Guards? The U.S. Cavalry presaged Marine Embassy guards??? Along more likely lines, I can...