US GI full autos.

[Vincent]

Not quite, you find a repro drum and have the spine from a box mag spotted to the back. Then it just slides up in place. No need to refit uppers and lowers...

Great tip. I will give it a try when my M1 transfer comes through.

Thank you

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[browningautorifle]

my M1 transfer

Another that we'll be watching for...maybe after the drum fitting you can make us a short vid of wringing it out.

[theholeinthedonut]

M2 HB.

[fjruple]

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

--fjruple

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.

[browningautorifle]

Both the T&E mechanisms for the M1919A4 and M2 Brownings are on backwards.

And the slide lock lever is maintained locked by the left hand and thumb while firing with the right hand... Nice .50...

[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.

[browningautorifle]

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

In the case of this .50 I think it's original fitting but later refinishing...but would need to examine it closely to be better informed.

M-1928A1

Nice early features on that one, paddle selectors, Waldemar Broberg marked instead of George Goll, Auto Ord marked...finned barrel and earlier Cutts, there were four patterns of Cutts compensators. Also BNP marked as it may have come out of UK in the early days when that stuff was around.

I had a '28...and converted it to an A1 config for shooting. Here's pics of it in '28 configuration.

[fjruple]

[QUOTE=theholeinthedonut;441579]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!!


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

The parts were original from the factory. It's just the nature of Armasteel when the parts are given a classical blued finish. PS-- Great looking Thompson

[browningautorifle]

The parts were original from the factory. It's just the nature of Armasteel when the parts are given a classical blued finish

Agreed, parkerizing coats the outside of steel with a textured crystalline finish, blue goes into the pores of the metal and allows the metal to be viewed...

[Brit plumber]

My .50 must have come from the same place as yours as it has the same purple bluing finish.