New member introductions thread ......

[jfhicks]

I have just acquired a British LE No1 Mk4 T sniper set, and was looking for some advice on how to re-stencil the lettering on the chest. The chest has been repainted a flat olive drab color, so the original markings have been covered up. I found several threads that dealt with that exact topic here on Milsurps! So here I am, a new member, looking for some knowledge...

[Im_in_NH]

Greetings! Seems once upon a time I got a letter that started that way. Jim@BavarianM1Carbines.com recommended this discussion group. I am undertaking the restoration of an M1 carbine that my father stored in the cellar for the past 65+ years. It was oiled and wrapped in some old newspapers and has gone through one house fire. I've been wondering what to do with it. This year's winter project is to try to get it into working order. Hope that I can get some help along the way.
Thanks E

[ww321q]

Hi ! I'm JW. I just joined the forum trying to learn a little more about the M1 carbine. The 30 carbine is the next gun I want to add to my collection. I have 3 military rifles now. They are from other countries and I decided I should get some from my own country. Thanks for the forum JW

[Joe A]

New to the forum... a short intro... been collecting old surplus guns for years... all of them work fine, with the exception of one old 1903A3 Springfield. Someone years ago welded the cutoff in the "up" or "ON" position. Anyone know why the previous owner would have done that? I plan on removing the weld (somehow... suggestions would be highly welcome!) myself... likely with a hacksaw and a file of some type... unless someone can tell me a much better way to do so... or turn it over to a gunsmith and let a professional do it. Anyway, good to be amongst my fellow old gun affectionados... (and yes, my wife used to think I was crazy for collecting these things.... and nowadays she's GLAD I've got 'em!)

[pw7793]

I'm a Vietnam Vet 67-68 and bought my first surplus weapon in 1973, a P-08 Lugar. Been collecting and shooting ever since. Hope I can get some help and help someone else in the near future.

[Pvt. Tommy Atkins]

'ello chaps. My name is Tommy Atkins (not really), and I am intrested with pretty muxh everything to do with military history, bu especially with ancient warfare and with the period between 1800 A.D-2000 A.D.

Merry Christmas to you all.

[bill smith]

hello to all who read this forum. i have a great interest in European surplus rifles. right now, i am wrapped up in some Enfield problems that i hope to figure out from information i gather here. thanks.

[Ian Kinder]

Hello Everyone,

This may sound like an odd request but I happen to come across some information from one of your members on this site discussing a 1905 Ross Mark II, Target Rifle that was owned by a Captain A. Murray, who had been the Captain of the Empress of Britain for most of his career and commanded the Empress of Ireland for a brief period.
This gentlemen commented on that he has a picture of Captain Murray holding his rifle and I would like to get intouch with this gentlemen and talk with him about this picture as I am writing a book about the Empresses.
Thank you

[southfork]

Hello, I'm kind of new here, but have looked in on this forum from time to time. My interest in military surplus rifles, etc stems back to the end of the Vietnam conflict. I was reassigned to Germany after SE Asia, and made a habit of climbing through the blown up bunkers of the WWII Seigfried Line on the border between France and Germany. I talked with my old German landlord and he told me exactly where the allied forces fought through his villiage and blowing up the bunkers. I found quite a few artifacts from US GI's and also from the German forces, but nothing too valuable. My best prize was a field-find USGI M1 carbine of Rock-ola manufacture and some rusted allied bayonets.

I now have several milsurp rifles including a newly acquired pair of USGI M1 carbines that I would like to shoot. I was wondering if the 60+ year-old USGI carbine magazines are really superior to the the ones being made today. I would like to get some reliable 15 round magazines, and don't want to have to deal with the frustration of ones that will not work reliably. Advice please??? If anyone has some reliable M1 magazines that they would sell me, then please PM me. Thanks! By the way, my father is 94 years old and he carried a a low-digit Inland M1 Carbine as a Marine on Guadacanal, Vela Lavela, Peliliu, and Okinawa. He keeps telling me to stay on a lookout for the WWII M1 carbine that he carried in the Pacific theater from 1942 through 1945: Inland, serial # 238548.

[Jas0n]

Hello
Great site.
Just started collecting British / Aussi Lee Enfields.
1941 No1 Model3* Lithgow .22 trainer.
1918 No1 Model3* SMLE HB .303 - Club Military Shoot- as issued work horse.
1944 No1 Model3* Lithgow .303 - Unfired - origional condition.

About to start a No 4 T Sniper Project using a 1944 Savage and my recently aquired 1941 N32 Scope.