June Purchases

Here are a couple closeups of barrelled action I picked up off the EE the other week. I am leaning towards converting it back to a 303 and installing one of my laminated wood sets on it.
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Very nice Ross, and good job on the extension.

I just received this Mexican Mauser M1904 carbine from Accuracy Plus in Peterborough, which I'm very pleased with. I wanted one used in the Revolution, and this is definately it. Unfortunately it's been rebuilt probably more than once and the receiver crest is almost completely gone.

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Well you Enfield collectors...you got me this time :D.

SMLE Mk III * 1916. A beautiful all matching example with lots of history to boot, thanks 6167!

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Remington Model 10 "Riot Gun". This shotgun had the barrel cut down to about 20" and was used to guard prisoners and camps in WWI and WWII, and it had a brother with the heat shield and bayonet lug which supplemented the Winchester Model 1897 in the trenches of WWI. A nice piece of history for me!

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Nice Ross. Every red-blooded Canadian milsurp collector should have one.

And if I can just piggyback on your thanks to Wheaty and add my $.02 in appreciation for Wheaty's help in putting the Sutherland sight on my Ross Mk II 5* back into working order. I couldn't have figured out how to get the thing apart, let alone how to repair it. It works like a charm now. Thanks Wheaty :wave:

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Had it before June, but finally finished forend extension.
Thanks to Wheaty for rifle and parts.
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New "old" LE

Well, I've now attained the bookend for one end of my desired collection of Canadian military arms, the older end, with the recent arrival of this Canadian-marked MLE Mk I. :dancingbanana:

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Enfield 1896 production, s/n 13##, which places it in the first batch of 10,000 rifles Canada bought that year and among the earliest of MLEs ever produced. All matching and has the original '96-dated barrel. Bore is bit worn but bright. Not a museum piece, with dark wood that's a bit bruised, but great for a shooter, which works for me. M&D stamped buttstock and complete but for the piling swivel and screw (anybody have one they can spare?)

Thrilled to have a Boer War-vintage rifle which may have gone with the Canadian contingents to South Africa.

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Thanks to Mr. Edgecombe for publishing his "Defending the Dominion" book and for his assistance with my questions during my search and acquisition. :wave:
 
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Picked up this little sweetheart this month. It's a very nice Martini-Henry MkIII short lever made in 1882. Nicest wood I've ever seen on one and the bore gleams like a mirror ;)

The only downside is there are a couple minor spots of surface rust on the receiver flat by the rollmark and on the rear sight. What ticks me off is it was mint 4 years ago but the stupid family let the estate sit in a basement for 4 years and now it's just "excellent" and not "mint". Stupid antis.

Notice the original brass muzzle protector? The sling is original too, though I got that separately from the Nepalese cache stuff floating around these days.

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I wish I could say it was cheap... it wasn't :( And I don't even want to begin to talk about what I just paid for dies and brass...
 
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Remington Model 10 "Riot Gun". This shotgun had the barrel cut down to about 20" and was used to guard prisoners and camps in WWI and WWII, and it had a brother with the heat shield and bayonet lug which supplemented the Winchester Model 1897 in the trenches of WWI. A nice piece of history for me!

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Nice Model 10! I have a real appreciation for pre-WW2 pump shotguns.
 
Thanks to a simply incredible CGN'er (we’ll just call him #4mk1(T) :p ), a truly beautiful C No.7 .22 just arrived today, in a lovely-looking transit-box....:cool:
 
Just received this Greek Mannlicher-Schoenauer Y:1903/14 from Collectors Source. Very nice shape, one of the 1927 Breda contract, but with a mis-matched bolt and missing the screwed-on piling swivel. Looks like some attempted trench art on the butt, as it has circles from a 6.5mm cartridge case cut in with a half-hearted attempt to carve them out, as well as the initials KK. It might be bubba work, but the cross was both a national and religious symbol and K does appear in the Greek alphabet, so I think it`s at least possible it was done by a bored soldier in Albania sometime around Christmas 1940.

I`m definately happy with it!

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Just bought those 2 milsurps last June. Swiss K31 manufactured in 1948 and Swedish M96-38b dating of 1941. After a good cleaning and polishing metal they look great. I will give them a try in a couples of days. Hope they will be shooters.

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