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Is it still in .303? Might seem a silly question but a lot of Rosses were changed over to a variety of wildcat type cartridges especially in the 1960's. With no pictures hard to say--is it still in...

Looks like a nice piece. I have owned a tremendous number of LB #4 rifles over the years and have yet to see one with the last 4 of the serial number stamped on top of the buttstock behind the...

Well, glad to hear you are still ok. Hope all goes well for you. Perhaps, given that you are still having pain, shortness of breath, and have a persistently blocked artery, it is for the best you...

I would assume you are looking for the battle sight for the WWI issue Mk III, and not the earlier rather complicated Mk III rearsight for a 1905? IF the WWI battle sight, do you just need the sight...

Can you provide the inside diameter of the muzzle ring please and also the overall length of the bayonet and the blade length, and between my Janzen's Notebook and Watt's and White Bayonet Book we...

No it should be a Mk II with a sheet metal covered adjustable rearsight on the barrel--the Mk III, not to be confused with the rearsight for the Mk III Ross which was a receiver mounted battle sight....

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I will take some tomorrow and post them. If the current bunch in Ottawa has its way, I am sure the military expenditure will be such that we will be relying on Louisbourg once again for coastal...

Right.......except, when for instance did the Queen's Own Rifles get their name? When there was a Queen on the throne--Victoria. Had the regiment been formed when say King George the whichever was...

Interesting! Thanks. I see that photo. Odd that the handbook of the Marks of the Canadian Regiments has no such entry. A deeper search indicates it was a short lived group hastily raised as a...

I considered that but I don't find a record of such a thing. The military units of Quebec and militia tended to have French names, such as the Voltigeurs. It remains a mystery....

Cheers

Ed

I did consider that, except in the late 1700-early 1800's the last time there had been an independent Queen in England was maybe Queen Anne? After she died in 1714, there were a series of...

I have been going through my cabinets cleaning stuff out, and was looking at a Brown Bess India Pattern I have had for a few years. It has QLI F 47 on the buttplate tang, in the British unit...

Yeah, I figured. :)

That shiny bird with the scarlet cross in the middle of it would surely make a great aiming point.....

Glad to hear you're alive and on the mend. 99% occlusion of the left main or Left anterior descending artery is nothing to play around with. You are damn lucky it came on while you were relaxing...

By the OP's description, this was a defect--a revolver which doesn't revolve or goes off when you drop it has issues.....

Ed

Holy s***! That is insane for something still available.

Ed

You are correct that these were mostly used by Home Guard units, and also by RCAF as they are sometimes marked with that. I would assume that the RCAF used them to guard bases and such in Canada as...

I think it has to be an experimental rifle for the SAS motorcycle corps. Looking at that scope mount system, if you mounted the rifle to say the front edge of a motorcycle side car, then the scope...

Looks good. The front sight hood is on backwards although I have seen enough of them that way to wonder if some just liked them that way. As you probably know most of these ones sent to the US had...

Or perhaps a fast moving shell fragment......

I see the long bayonet bar on that Mk II** held by the man seated on the left side (Sclator) in the second photo (top group). That bayonet bar was mandated by the British. I have one of those...

I have been cleaning out closets and my home office in the last month or so, and unearthing some interesting things. I came across this piece which I had framed but had not hung after our last...

Sad indeed, and the dollop of liquid wood behind the receiver doesn't help either. Neither does the fact it has been drilled--my initial thought was that it would be good for my 1910E that has a...