Ever find anything in your old milsurp?

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There's been the odd time Ive taken apart a newly acquired milsurp to find some odd-ball things stuffed in crevices. Picked up another one today, and under the handguard was a part of an old cigarette packing. And the front band had the same. Looks like the user used it as a shim to stop some of the play.

Wondering what odds and ends people have found while exploring.

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Nothing like that, but I have a couple that the previous owner electro penciled his sin number into the frame under the grips, and buttplates
 
Picked up a snider cavalry carbine with Regtl marking on butt. In certain light I can make the guys name out. Checked the militia rolls and he is listed.

My Strathcona Horse LE had the owners name and battles engraved on the stock. Also had the pull through and oiler still in the butt
 
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Under the upper handguard on my Hungarian m44 I found this.

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Roughly translates to "its sharp shooter 100-200 meters, you will hit where ever you point it!"
 
I found a piece of scrap paper with a guy's name on it under the sight on my Chang Kai Shek mauser. The reverse was an armoury inventory sheet. Still have it.
 
In the barrel channel of a Japanese Special Naval Rifle, pencilled characters for "Nakamura".
On the inside of one grip from a P08, "July 10, 1943 Avola Sicily"
 
And so many collectors say there is no way to prove battle provinence. I think the black sand or Italian location and date would be pretty good evidence.

Does embedded in the stock count? We have a M41 Carcano here with lots of bits of steel embedded in its stock.
 
A friend had a surplus AR-10 with red African dirt inside.
A lot of the armourer's patches in the woodwork are battle damage repairs.
I have seen guns with fragment damage. One was a Nambu lmg with pockmarks on the side of the receiver, and a longitudinal bullet groove on the barrel's cooling fins.
A MG-08/15 turned up with a bullet hole through its jacket. It had been captured in 1918 by the 16th Bn.
 
Folded up sheet of paper with Arabic writing on it from the barrel channel of a Martini carbine. Get some time I'll post it later. Always wondered what it said. :confused:

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tiriaq said:
A friend had a surplus AR-10 with red African dirt inside.
A lot of the armourer's patches in the woodwork are battle damage repairs.
I have seen guns with fragment damage. One was a Nambu lmg with pockmarks on the side of the receiver, and a longitudinal bullet groove on the barrel's cooling fins.
A MG-08/15 turned up with a bullet hole through its jacket. It had been captured in 1918 by the 16th Bn.
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Standard field "dewat". Soldiers were told to put a round through the jacket and/or pull the feed block out and chuck it if the flow of battle didn't allow them to physically secure the gun. That's why mismatched feed blocks and bullet holes in water jackets of MG08's and 08/15's are so common. I have a MG08 captured on 8.8.1918 by the QOR with the field capture paint still on it indicating the location and date of capture as well as instructions to ship to the Toronto Regiment.
 
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