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Originally Posted by
Alan de Enfield
Weeeeeell - there are no obvious T & TR markings, but I suppose it could be an early one (before the markings were standarised)
No, couldn't be that early; has the rectangular section trigger guard.
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03-17-2014 03:03 AM
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Don't know what you lot are on about, the action may be a bit tight, not cleaned on regular occasions, wood could do with a polish, barrels been chopped.........other than that its fine, you lot are getting really picky these days I've noticed
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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The backsight has the peep milled off. What an interesting find.
At Pegasus Bridge, they have a Bren Gun that was found 45 years after the fact. Looks about the same.
Buy it back off the guy!
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You won't believe me out there in forumland, but there are some in the UK
who insist that these absolute and totally useless relics are still firearms until they have been inspected and 'passed' AND certified as not capable of discharging a shot bullet....... blah blah blah and off they go into some other planetory orbit.
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When I was a Police Diver I once found a rusty Colt .45 in its grease proof paper with one up the spout.....but it was admittedly in good condition but rusty condition, so you never know.
When they dig up WW2 aircraft around here they always call EOD when they find linked ammo in the .50 cals SOP I suppose!!!
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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They found 6 Sten guns in the remains of a burned out lorry on the sea-bed. Presumably winched overboard from a ship. They were cleaned and fired the following day. But it was only a few months afterwards! Really, common sense should dictate - or what my wise old mum used to call '.....the bleedin obvious.....'.
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You hit the nail square on the head Peter. The key term is "common sense". There simply ain't any anymore. Especially in government.
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Well perhaps they think it can be used as a club because that weapon will never fire anything but if from Arhnem what a story it could tell snipers on both sides with capture imminent always divested themselves of their weapon and just grabbed a plain jane as it was short shrift just like the Commandos as per Hitlers directive to be caught with that type of weapon.
You know the snipers life was disdain on both sides by the enemy and his mates as they often attracted an unwelcome amount of retaliatory fire after taking out a target, Carlos Hathcock said of when he swotted that General in the epic 5 day stalk reckons after that he felt bad as US casualties skyrocketed after that episode.
And the enemy would just shoot you off hand after they had some fun at least that is what happened to the German snipers on the Eastern front.
The book Sniper on the Eastern Front is brutal testimony to how the Russians treated the snipers and the women folk alike rather a heavy read....
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