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    Colt Vickers

    A few quick pictures of my 1915 Colt Vickers.













    I haven’t had a chance to clean it or shoot it yet. I will post some better pictures when it’s cleaned up.
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    Full or Semi?

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    Looks like its been set up for when the ducks come back to the pond just the right height for grazing fire for take offs and landings..... do not know about the petrol cooling can with the fumes near the muzzle could be interesting Fire & Fry!
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    Quote Originally Posted by WarPig1976 View Post
    Full or Semi?
    Full. It’s an original gun.

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    Looks like its been set up for when the ducks come back to the pond just the right height for grazing fire for take offs and landings..... do not know about the petrol cooling can with the fumes near the muzzle could be interesting Fire & Fry!
    Good eye. We get lots of ducks at this time of year. And who doesn’t like crispy duck!

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    Well Vincent looks like a 7 days a week on the reloading press ol chap for about 10 minutes worth of fun at the end of the year

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vincent View Post
    Full. It’s an original gun.
    Mmm,Mmm,Mmm...Yummy.

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    Of all the guns that I could - and did - shoot with monotonous regularity, I have to say that just a couple really wound my springs up. The Vickers MMG and the Thompson.

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    The last time that I saw a Colt Vickers was around 1970, the local Fire Dept called me and said that a large box with a machine gun had been turned-in to them. It had been taken apart and the parts were in the box. When I looked at it, I saw that it was a Colt Vickers and in 11mm Vickers caliber. I put it together for them and told them you would need a SPAD 13 or Nieuport 28 if you wanted to fire it, besides finding any 11mm Vickers would be very difficult !

    While on the subject of the 11mm Vickers, was this caliber used by the Britishicon during WW1 ?

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    Photo shows the 11mm Vickers on the right

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