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    Agreed, I have it and went to some lengths to get it. His post-war books on gunsmithing are classics too.

    As for those videos, it's a little hard to tell what's going on, but it appears there was an informal test fire on the way in, then an oil/solvent bath, then stacked either for later attention or shipping out to somewhere else. With the smoking going on you have wonder what the solvent in the buckets on the table was!
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    Quote Originally Posted by painter777 View Post
    Can't help but think of those who carried them.
    The one in the upper left shows a hack in the stock.
    Maybe hand to hand ?
    Or perhaps a fast moving shell fragment......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brewer View Post
    im going to say it might be a ZB 26, probably a Chinese capture that the Japaneseicon then put into service. It looks like the grip has been broken off.
    That seems to be correct from what I can find too...ZB 26...
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