What a Pile of...

[usabaker]

Rifles! Man, I wish I could sort through a pile like this... NON War Time of course. New Guinea in 1943

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[Surpmil]

Every one a story, and most of them tragic.

(Battlefield salvage)

[painter777]

Can't help but think of those who carried them.
The one in the upper left shows a hack in the stock.
Maybe hand to hand ?

[boltaction]

Can't help but think of those who carried them.
The one in the upper left shows a hack in the stock.
Maybe hand to hand ?

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

[mrclark303]

Is it all 1903's and BARs guys?

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I wish I could sort through a pile like this... NON War Time of course. New Guinea in 1943

Should have bought Springfield Sporters.

[Atticus Thraxx]

I actually moaned when I saw that pile.

[browningautorifle]

Way over on the left is something standing in the background...Jap maybe? Nambu LMG?

[Eaglelord17]

Way over on the left is something standing in the background...Jap maybe? Nambu LMG?

I want to say Bren gun with that dial on the side of it.

[beachdog77]

Way over on the left is something standing in the background...Jap maybe? Nambu LMG?

im going to say it might be a ZB 26, probably a Chinese capture that the Japanese then put into service. It looks like the grip has been broken off. The rear of the receiver its stepped like the ZB and is not squared off with the tube protruding out the back of the receiver like the type 96 & 99. The drum sight is further forward ( or so it seems) than on a Bren gun and the stock looks different.

funny how some of the captured japanese combat footage some times shows Japanese using BARs and some of the footage from china or singapore shows the Japanese running around with SMLEs.