component 150 or 170 gr FMJ ROUND NOSE

[rcathey]

Spruce...Gumwood?

The way I read it, they were nicknamed the spruce gun because they guarded the spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest. Spruce was vital to the war effort for building airplanes.
One of the scarcer US military firearms out there but they do turn up and fly under the radar when they do

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[browningautorifle]

they guarded the spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Yes it was, fair enough. Another martial use, not to forget the foraging guns of WW1, I wonder what their ammo was?