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[guest0001]

My first M1 Carbine, some heathen had replaced the original stock with a low quality folding stock...effing "Band of Brothers"-SyndromeI Since then I have put it back into a n original WWII stock.

 

[NZM305]

The Replacement is ready for testing ?

 

[guest0001]

The first 1911A1, a Colt mixmaster that had been re-blued

 

[guest0001]

Saginaw M1 Carbine.

the pic has been take about 10 years back, at that time the sling was a copy, I have replaced it with an original by now.

 

[guest0001]

With my first 1903 it was the same story as with my first Garand.....

 

[guest0001]

My very first Thompson, an M1928A1.

 

[guest0001]

Battlefield pick-up Garand M1. It is just as I got it from an old geezer who had been hiding it in a wardrobe filed with old clothes since the end of the Battle of the Bulge.

 

[guest0001]

M1A1 Carbine, from the end of the second production run.

 

[primer]

They actually have some impressively grained wood on a good few of them.
It would drive me crazy cleaning them.

 

[TheKiwi]

Handed over my AR15 for destruction yesterday which was a sad sad moment. Then spent my Jacinda-Bucks on this:

Hammerli Tac R1 .22

I need to put a suppressor on it and a torch and I'm ready to go after possums again.

 

[NZM305]

Handed over my AR15 for destruction yesterday which was a sad sad moment. Then spent my Jacinda-Bucks on this:

Hammerli Tac R1 .22

I need to put a suppressor on it and a torch and I'm ready to go after possums again.

Very nice, I've been thinking about getting one of the Chiappa M1-22 for something retro looking.

 

[TheKiwi]

Yeah those things are pretty cool. You could probably fit it with a folding stock legally now too.

 

[Jake84]

Bumping this thread and breaking a rule (apologies)

This is a M1 Carbine I’ll inherit from my step-grandfather, he owns it legally and I intend to own it legally as well and write up all the BS papers to the police station/Gendarmerie when something happens to him. The latter the better...





@TheKiwi @BravoZulu @riderboy

 

[riderboy]

My first WWII rifle. A Garand that as rebuilt with a NOS barrel, complete with fully German proof marks! A collectors nightmare but a tack driver! The production date for the receiver is September 1941.

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I read that armorers on the battlefield would repair damaged rifles using intact spare parts from other rifles. Obviously serial numbers would not match, but I would think those repaired rifles would still be worth a lot based on their provenance, yes?

 

[TheKiwi]

Quite the modified M1 there @Jake84 . I do wish I'd been able to own one, but they were expensive and rare as f*** around here even before they were banned.

 

[Jake84]

That’s true, @TheKiwi it was quite heavily modified to the point I wonder if Roosevelt would approve of it, at least it’s modernized in a nice way.

Ultimately I’ll have to mention to the Police I’m going to own it - I cannot put myself in trouble over this. If it’s too critical, no other choice than hand it over to the authorities. I need to read up about the firearms laws better since oh well step grandpa is deaf as f*** and it’s hard to even ask him who won last weekend football games.

 

[guest0001]

I read that armorers on the battlefield would repair damaged rifles using intact spare parts from other rifles. Obviously serial numbers would not match, but I would think those repaired rifles would still be worth a lot based on their provenance, yes?

That's what happened. Most of the GI WWII small arms w find over here are "mixmasters", but not all of them...I have some nice M1 carbines that have all the original pieces.

I guess that they would get a price, but it's hard to tell how it would play out unless somebody imports these WWII small arms back to the US of A.

A few months back we had Steve Rutledge and Marty Morgan from the GCA visiting, they were quite excited about some of our WWII battlefield pick-ups.

watch

 

[guest0001]

Winchester pumpgun.

 

[guest0001]

M1919A4

 

[Dixon66]

^^Drooling. Enough said.