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....with the odor of #9 in the kitchen. SWMBO would kick me out....OK, she'd try to.
Slow day, so I decided to snap a few shots along with some props. Was aiming for a vintage look with the color in the photos. Kind of a walnut and steel sort of day.
Remington M1903. Receiver dates to 1941, has a 5-42 barrel. '42 Dated M1905 bayonet. Pretty nice M1917 helmet with an original liner.
Creedmoor 1903A4. Put a few rounds through it, and it is really a fun gun to shoot. Couldn't quite seeing paying $4500-$5000 for a real one, so this is just fine. My grandfathers M3 knife next to a fixed bale M1 helmet.
Springfield Armory M1 that I picked up in '89. Blue Sky import with a really light parkerizing job, and a pretty beat up stock. But it shoots just fine.
A '44 Inland M1 Carbine. Nice looking stock, but was obviously sanded and refinished many years ago. M4 Bayonet
'55 Harrington & Richardson M1 that I just recently picked up. Stock was absolutely caked with grease and grime, but otherwise pretty correct. AFH M1 bayonet
Armscorp M14 that used to belong to another NES members. Love the gun.
'51 Winchester Model 70 in .30-06. I realize that it was never issued in Vietnam, in this configuration, but I have a great photo of a soldier carrying one that looks just it across a river. Probably a rifle sent from home in order to provide some organic marksman capability for his squad.
Last is a Swedish K, built on a Wilson tube. Lots of fun to shoot, and very controllable, in full auto. Also a '61 vintage Browning High Power. In my reading on SOG, this was a favorite combo, until the XM177 basically replaced the sub-guns.
Thanks for looking,
Chris
Slow day, so I decided to snap a few shots along with some props. Was aiming for a vintage look with the color in the photos. Kind of a walnut and steel sort of day.
Remington M1903. Receiver dates to 1941, has a 5-42 barrel. '42 Dated M1905 bayonet. Pretty nice M1917 helmet with an original liner.
Creedmoor 1903A4. Put a few rounds through it, and it is really a fun gun to shoot. Couldn't quite seeing paying $4500-$5000 for a real one, so this is just fine. My grandfathers M3 knife next to a fixed bale M1 helmet.
Springfield Armory M1 that I picked up in '89. Blue Sky import with a really light parkerizing job, and a pretty beat up stock. But it shoots just fine.
A '44 Inland M1 Carbine. Nice looking stock, but was obviously sanded and refinished many years ago. M4 Bayonet
'55 Harrington & Richardson M1 that I just recently picked up. Stock was absolutely caked with grease and grime, but otherwise pretty correct. AFH M1 bayonet
Armscorp M14 that used to belong to another NES members. Love the gun.
'51 Winchester Model 70 in .30-06. I realize that it was never issued in Vietnam, in this configuration, but I have a great photo of a soldier carrying one that looks just it across a river. Probably a rifle sent from home in order to provide some organic marksman capability for his squad.
Last is a Swedish K, built on a Wilson tube. Lots of fun to shoot, and very controllable, in full auto. Also a '61 vintage Browning High Power. In my reading on SOG, this was a favorite combo, until the XM177 basically replaced the sub-guns.
Thanks for looking,
Chris
M29 Classic, basically a 629 Classic 6 1/2" in high lustre finish.
These were on the market here only for a short time in the late 90's/early 2000nds and may
have been a ltd edition for Wischo who were one of the two S&W importers at that time.
More details: It's a 29-6 with a serial in the BNN range, made for Wischo in the fall of 1992.
I was present when the previous owner bought it used in 2002. Later the gun got a trigger job at
Merkle-Tuning, likely the most renown S&W tuner in Germany. When she came back she was fitted
with a trigger stop and had a sun decor on the trigger and hammer. Her new owner will deflower her
today. He's paid ~ 25% less for her than what a new 629 Classic costs nowadays.
Got to show him how to use that sling properly
Ugh I want an M1 so badly it hurts. Maybe I'll put it on my Christmas list.
Sick cheap AR build, not bad for $536. What brake is that?
Specs please!
My newest edition and first hand build. Albeit they may be easy to construct, but I'm awful proud of the work I did.