Quote Originally Posted by Vincent View Post
Any chance of some close up pictures and descriptions of the weapons and the pictures with them?
I'll try this.....

Starting from the right side of the wall I have Axis weapons. From the top down:

K98icon (bring back by my dad). It's BYF (4 digit) 1944 all matching.
Luger P08 (S/42 1937).
FN/Browning 1922 (German production)
Type 99 (all matching with mum & dust cover).
Nambu T14 (18.11)
Type 38 (mostly matching + non matching dust cover).
Carcano 91/41


Next row to the left top to bottom:

Enfield No.5
Enfield No.4
Webley Mk4
Enfield No1
SACM 1935A
St. Etienne Mod 1892
MAS 36


Next row left top to bottom:

M1icon Carbine (National Postal Meter)
M1 Garand (Springfield)
1903A3 (Springfield)
M1917 (Winchester)


Last row - far left top to bottom:

Steyr M95
Mosin Nagant M44
Nagant 1895
Mosin Nagant 91/30
Schmidt Rubin K31icon


Here's a closer view of the display we gave my dad.


I disabled the bolt guns by removing the main spring. This makes it a little awkward putting the bolt back in for display and you have to be careful when handling some of them because they'll fall apart. Removing the firing pin won't work because the bolt cannot be reassembled. I removed the main spring from the revolvers and removed the firing pins from the M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, Luger P08, Nambu T14 and FN/Browning 1922.

My oldest son and I went to the range this afternoon and shot the Luger, 1922 and St. Etienne (finally found a box of 8mm lebel for it...). Had a great time. We're looking forward to finding some .32 Frenchicon long for the SACM and bringer her back to life. That pistol is actually a "B" serial number with waffenamts but it seemed more at home with the French arms then over with the Axis!

You'll notice a few pics scattered in. I'm looking for good high resolution pics of each weapon in use. I've found it to be harder than I originally thought. I"m also looking for ways to label each one. You'll notice a weak attempt of mine to label the M1 Garand. I used a couple empty casings to boarder something I wrote on - like using the casings (or maybe even add a bullet) but haven't fully decide on the rest.