Picture of the day

[calmcat]

i appreciate the sentiment but it's not really the thread's reason for existing

Got it. Corrected.

 

[HuskyDude]

Do you know who did the sectioning?

No, I pulled that off the net a few years back.
Would make a nice pic to hang in the gun room.

 

[*lawrence]

Belgian Commando armed with FN MAG GPMG, Rwanda, 1994.

 

[*lawrence]

Members of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) unpack and inspect Winchester rifles sent from the United States under the terms of Lease-Lend, 23 March 1942. The photograph was taken at the Central Ordnance Depot at Weedon in Northamptonshire.


I think they are Model 74's...... (the rifles).

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Members of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) unpack and inspect Winchester rifles sent from the United States under the terms of Lease-Lend, 23 March 1942. The photograph was taken at the Central Ordnance Depot at Weedon in Northamptonshire.
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I think they are Model 74's...... (the rifles).

I think you're right. I had one. Very interesting design. Kinda sub-gun architecture. Thing was bloody accurate.

 

[*lawrence]

I think you're right. I had one. Very interesting design. Kinda sub-gun architecture. Thing was bloody accurate.

I have one, it's all old school, just wood and metal. They sometimes pop up in Canada with British proofs and threaded.

I have read (somewhere) that they were sometimes used suppressed by sneaky squirrel types.

IIRC they also come in .22 short as well as LR.

A really nice little rifle

 

[woodchopper]

Belgian Commando armed with FN MAG GPMG, Rwanda, 1994.
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I was just reading the markings on the ammo can.

 

[*lawrence]

Seen on Houthi combat footage: a 98 Mauser variant with pistol grip, box mag, scope, and suppressor.

 

[*lawrence]

Lance Corporal R. Hearn and Private F. Slater (nearest camera) of the 1st Royal Norfolk Regiment, 3rd Division, aim their weapons in the ruins of Kervenheim, 3 March 1945. Corporal Hearn is using a captured German MP40 'Schmeisser' submachine gun.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

"Bonjour, maudit Anglais!"

12 October 1939:
A French farmer driving a horse-drawn water cart waves his cap at the crew of a Light Tank Mk VI of 13/18th Royal Hussars, 1st Infantry Division's recce regiment, near Arras in northern France.

 

[grelmar]

E. R. Watts & Son LONDON 1941 Gunners Quadrant CLINOMETER Mk VI​

Found this trolling around the Cardon Tools website. Why they have one for sale is a mystery to me.

Made in London by the famous maker of precision measuring tools E.R. Watts in 1941. This Clinometer or Gunners quadrant was used to set or check the elevation ( angle) for an artillery piece or mortar. The tool is heavy with the main casting being solid brass painted black over much of its surface . There is a swing arm that pivots and can be set at various angle ( 0-44 degrees on one side and 45-89 on the other) . There is a sliding bubble level that can be moved back and forth along this swing arm. The swing arm is graduated in minutes and depending on the location of the bubble and swing arm an angle can be measured or set in degrees and minutes. Beneath the sliding bubble is a knurled knob the to lock the bubble in position.

 

[milkbone96]

I saw the Busch sign, rubble, vehicle that’s been stripped of its wheels and for a split second thought this was Detroit in the late 80s.

Or East St. Louis

 

[Irons78]

Or East St. Louis

Sadly, it could be certain sections of an increasing number of Canadian cities and large towns.

 

[milkbone96]

Sadly, it could be certain sections of an increasing number of Canadian cities and large towns.

Indeed

 

[I Dont Care About You]

Seen on Houthi combat footage: a 98 Mauser variant with pistol grip, box mag, scope, and suppressor.
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What's with the super duper high rise scope rail and mount?

 

[grelmar]

Sadly, it could be certain sections of an increasing number of Canadian cities and large towns.

Hastings and Main comes to mind...

I worked in Vancouver for a year in the late 90's. The flight out was the most beautiful view of my life... Vancouver, fading into the distance.

I've been back for visits every few years (friends, family), and parts of Van City that I used to think of as "a bit rough" in the 90's have degraded to full on apocalyptic. And the limousine left that runs BC politics can't pull their heads far enough out of their @sses to see the connection between the laissez faire/enabling policies and the fact that even prosperous little tourist towns like Nanaimo on the island have large "no-go zones."

Vietnam "trench art" (found on FB and Insta) :

 

[*lawrence]

 

[*lawrence]

Second Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Vickers MG team resting in a combat area. Korea - March 7, 1951

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Tired enough to sleep anywhere, young enough to not wake up crippled by it.

 

[ArmedGinger]