US GI full autos.

[theholeinthedonut]

Hi--

Great guns!! I had never seen that scope for the M2 Browning .50 caliber before. Can you tell me a bit about the scope is it a US produced scope or one developed and fielded by a country other than the US.

Cheers

No it's a GI issued sight for the M2, it was not widely used though. It's the "Sight, Telescopic, MI", the one I have was made in 1941 by the Fairchild Aviation Corporation. Unfortunately I don't have the leather M13 Carrying Case, but the lense is 100% clear, like new!!

PS-- Both the T&E mechanisms for the M1919A4 and M2 Brownings are on backwards. The right hand is used for firing and the left hand for making elevation, windage and lateral adjustments with the T&E.

!!!!!Insert facepalm!!!!

Shame on me, doing it once would have been bad enough but twice.......

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Jim--

Both guns use Armasteel in those components with the purple-ish color when blued. The correct finish would be either zinc phosphate (grayish) or manganese phosphate (blackish) color in their production, commonly called "parkerization".

Cheers

fjruple

Where these the original components or were they added later on in an armory?

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M-1928A1 with adjustable Lyman sight.