New member introductions thread ......

[vstarclassic]

Hello All,
I am glad to be a new member at Milsurps.Com. I live on the South Shore of Nova Scotia and I am an avid collector and shooter of military rifles of both WWI and WWII. I also enjoy flint rifles and re-inactment of the 1700's French/Indian wars and Revolutionary War. Heres to all the members and many years of interesting posts.
Slainte mhathe
Greg

[NorthEasternArms]

Hello everyone. We're new to this forum and we don't really have a lot to do with "milsurps" aside from a desire to share with the firearms community as a whole.

Good to be here, and we're glad that we can help by sponsoring the site.

[Fan45]

Hi Folks

I am a new Member. 30 Plus years collecting experience

Welcome! New member here too. Been lurking for awhile, great site! I have a small collection of military rifles and shotguns, really love these old guns with interesting history, cartouches etc. Pretty much just interested in U.S. weapons. In particular I love the Garand, Carbine, 1911's, and Remington 11 shotguns.

[Josh Smith]

Hello,

As you can see if you look to your left, I am Josh Smith from Wabash IN in the US.

I am an avid fan of the Mosin-Nagant, 1911, and precision rimfire rifles. I also have gunsmith training.

I found this place because I manufacture and modify Mosin-Nagant front sights to be adjustable. I am going through the pages on which I use Google to advertise, and I came across this one.

While I'll be here watching for my ads, I would be hard-pressed not to contribute.

This is an awesome board. Wish I'd found it sooner.

Regards,

Josh

[cassar]

hi my first time on this forum was hoping to get some info re the value and sale ability of a sniper scope namely Lee Enfield No32 Mkii scope all I know is they are fairly sought after.
cheers Cassar.

[aardvarkrh]

Hey there Greg!
We must live in parallel universes. About two years ago, I slipped getting out of the bathtub & thought I had just twisted my back or pulled a muscle. It was just a bit sore overnight. The next morning I bent over to fill the my dog's water bucket & as I stood up it felt exactly like you said, it literally felt like a lightning bolt went from the middle of my lower back, down my right leg, to my foot. It didn't get numb, but it was like it wasn't there, all I could feel was the pain! I tried to take a step and immediately fell! But the pain never stopped. I managed to yell for my wife & she helped me up to our bed. I was in total agony, I was wide awake all night with ice packs on my lower back. Then, on top of the pain, I was having all I can think of , was an extreme anxiety attack. I couldn't even move. The next morning my wife got me to our doctor. He immediately took me in the back, gave a shot of morphine(no more pain but I was a zomby !), called and set up an emergency appointment to get an MRI & CATscan. He then called one of the top nuerosurgeuns in our area & set up an appointment with him in two hours & to bring the pictures. The nuerosurgeon looked at the pics. gave me a script for some pain pills. Told me that I had three herniated discs and spurs that were pinching off my sciatic nerve, and set me up for surgery, in three days, to go in with a laser and burn (away all the junk . All went well and I felt great. For about a year, until I slipped off a step & came down very hard on my right leg. Bam! The same electric fire, from my hip to my foot and couldn't. even get up. My friend had to just about carry me back to my hotel room. Ice packs for about three days this time, until the pain subsided. Back to the nuerosurgeon, with a new set of pics, told me I'd probably at a minimum, I would have to have L-4, L-5 & S-1 fused. Spent the whole of last year, getting 2nd, 3rd & 4th opinions, from orthopedic & nuero surgeons. All wanted to do fusions. Finally ended up at Stanford Hospital (One of the best in the country). I was initially seen by two Doctors, they told me, after reviewing all the pics. & reports from all the tests. There was no operation they could do that would give me the level of pain relief I was expecting & that I needed to see about having a nuero-stimulator implanted. It consists of a small device, like a pacemaker with two wires that conect to your spine and when you start to feel pain you push a button on a remote control and it makes the area affected tingle instead of hurting. So I'm starting to go through the process of having that done. You have to go through a 7 day test period where they install the wires on the outside and stick them through your skin into the spine where the problem is located they then tape the pacemaker somewhere where it won't interfer with normal activity. If it works for you, they do the operation & now you have a device inside your body. Now you get to start an excellerated physical therapy, to strengthen all you back & core muscles, in hopes that your muscles will get strong enough so they will support the spine and keep your discs and vertabrae from pinching the neves.
Good luck with your back, I sincerely hope you never reach the level of pain I've gone through, during the last year! All I believe I know , sis that once you start Fusion, your probably going to to have addition Fusions the rest of your life.
Best to you and your's !
Rich

[HEMBURG]

I am new to this form and would like to introduce myself to the menbers my luger is a 1939 Code 42 muser sereal number 842 z prefix

[450 racer]

just like to say hi have been into all kinds of milsurp firearms for years

[Josh Smith]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Josh

[Trev57]

Introducing myself as a new member. I stumbled across this site whilst browsing for antique firearm info and thought I would sign up as it looks interesting. My main interest is in early revolvers used in the American Civil War and the Old West. I am a machinist and have made a couple of replicas in the past of black powder pistols. I would love to get hold of blueprints or a copyable original of a Smith & Wesson Schofield (or similar) and a Lemat 9 shot plus shotgun pistol. I am currently researching making a lemat by scaling photographs. This makes it particularly difficult to achieve accuracy in any way, but so far may be the only way. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks. Trev.