I don't really know much about British guns, so it's to be expected. This is kind of why - Royal Small Arms Enfield isn't the same as Enfield, apparently. :rolleyes:.
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I don't really know much about British guns, so it's to be expected. This is kind of why - Royal Small Arms Enfield isn't the same as Enfield, apparently. :rolleyes:.
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I have an RSA Enfield made SMLE from 1916. Is it possible to know the approximate time of year it was made by the serial number? It's a "Z" block rifle, so i'm assuming it was very late in the year....
Nice rifle. If the Swiss made cars like they did firearms, they'd look amazing and we'd be driving those everywhere for decades, i'm sure of it.
Overstamping like that and mismatched numbers like the trigger guard and floorplate are not something the Germans would have done. Anything we've mentioned was done since it was brought back to the...
You have a rifle made by Steyr Daimler Puch in 1941. It's missing the front band spring (as shown in the last set of pics, image number 2). The stock has been refinished with some sort of shiny...
Assumptions can't be made by descriptions. There are too many variables. We'd need images.
Not all Russian Captures have the "x" on the receiver and not all of them have removed, pinged or otherwise defaced Swastikas. The black paint on the metal, mismatched numbers, shellac on the stock...
I have bought from Dennis at Empire Arms 2 or 3 times including a 1941 VKT M39. Excellent descriptions and fair prices. You'll be happy.
Not all Russian captures have the "X" stamp or peened Swastikas. It was a very haphazard process to stockpile them for the Russians.
My knowledge of the subject isn't the best, but the Ministry of Defense wasn't technically military, if I recall. They were more of a government security agency overseeing all aspects of life with...
The common thinking on the dual date and MO stamp is that it was a regular military rifle (in this case, manufactured in 1934), removed from front line service and re-issued to the ministerstvo...
Everything about this screams good to me. It's late war so having "byf" coded trigger guard was not unheard of - factories pitching in to cover production numbers for others. "dot" was Brno in then...
You have a Mosin Nagant. A Nagant is a revolver.
Not to get too far off point, but why would you want to? To me, each nick, dent or scratch is just a small story in its history.
I have never actually compared them, honestly. But for surplus stuff, it's the only ammo that's never given me issue.
Yep, that's fine. That's the Romanian stuff my Mausers love. Accurate (for me) out to 200 yards and surefire.
I was able to find, write to and hear back from the soldier mine was issued to in 1956 about 7 years ago.. You only know by trying.
Sadly, no. All manufacturers used the same serial number system. Starting out with no letter suffix until they reset the serial number counting. For instance, you will find rifle 1500a from Steyr,...
These look so good in shadow boxes on the wall. Fantastic war trophy.
Typical Russian capture. That explains its lack of entirely matching parts. They were captured in the millions by the Soviets, disassembled post war, cleaned, repaired and put back together with no...
Depends on the manufacturer and year. Going by your description you seem to have a Factory 357 (Progress) scope. They didn't always put the year on them, so you'd have to go by serial number to find...
No idea. But they were definitely tumbling. Long, oblong holes and high and low impacts at 100 yards. I'm talking far up the birm and short of the target. It was drastic and then the failures to...
I will NEVER buy nor recommend WOLF Performance Ammo again. Brand new .303 ammo resulted in tumbling bullets impacting multiple feet high and low in 2 different rifles and at least 3 failure to fire....
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