Arab Lee-Enfields
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That would be excellent!
Yes... I'm a big Lawrence of Arabia fan... have been since I was 8...
That episode was a complete fraud.....
....like many of the other ones , come to think of it.....
I once took an excursion train from Damascus up into the mountains at Zabadani and Bludan. I think they were actually using rolling stock from the "Lawrence of Arabia" era.
The engine was a small Swiss-made mountain steamer from 1892 and the coaches were the ricketty old wooden ones- kind of reminded me of sitting on the drop seats in the back of an old deuce-and a-half, except with better vision and a seat cushion. The engine needed to stop several times going uphill to take on water. traffic in Damascus was/is chaotic. There were no level crossings as we know them so the engine was dueling whistle vs horns with cars to make it's way through the city.
The engine was a small Swiss-made mountain steamer from 1892 and the coaches were the ricketty old wooden ones- kind of reminded me of sitting on the drop seats in the back of an old deuce-and a-half, except with better vision and a seat cushion. The engine needed to stop several times going uphill to take on water. traffic in Damascus was/is chaotic. There were no level crossings as we know them so the engine was dueling whistle vs horns with cars to make it's way through the city.
I ran across a frankenfield mauser last year. I turned it down. It was in horrible condition. I just won't have a non functionable firearm around. This rifle had been to hell and back and then someone shot corrosive ammo through it and didn't clean it for years.
I saw the rifle in Chilliwack at the HACS show. It didn't last long. I went back to the vendor an hour later and it had been snapped up at the $325 price tag, no questions asked. Ridiculous but if that's all that's available, understandable. Look at what people are willing to pay for a mummed Arisaka with a totally rusty or washed out bore.
I saw the rifle in Chilliwack at the HACS show. It didn't last long. I went back to the vendor an hour later and it had been snapped up at the $325 price tag, no questions asked. Ridiculous but if that's all that's available, understandable. Look at what people are willing to pay for a mummed Arisaka with a totally rusty or washed out bore.
@revilo: perhaps not, but I'm still working on it! I just wanta take it out and shoot it; they can have it back after.
As to STACKING HOOKS, the idea was to start your pile (that's what it was called) with 3 rifles, standing on their butts, at the points of a triangle, butt toes facing outward. Then the rifles were leaned backwards, toward the middle of the pile and the hooks hooked together so that each rifle was supporting the other two and getting support from them. Then other rifles could be added to the pile. The command was "Pile...... ARMS!". If your guys didn't know exactly what they were doing, the process could closely resemble a clusterf*ck. I'm sure you will find it in the old drill books from back in the Boer War era. That's what the FRONT swivel (the open one) on the original SMLE was for, also, as well as the rod on te Kar98aZ.
This is how you get those neat-o pyramids of rifles like in all the old photographs.
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As to STACKING HOOKS, the idea was to start your pile (that's what it was called) with 3 rifles, standing on their butts, at the points of a triangle, butt toes facing outward. Then the rifles were leaned backwards, toward the middle of the pile and the hooks hooked together so that each rifle was supporting the other two and getting support from them. Then other rifles could be added to the pile. The command was "Pile...... ARMS!". If your guys didn't know exactly what they were doing, the process could closely resemble a clusterf*ck. I'm sure you will find it in the old drill books from back in the Boer War era. That's what the FRONT swivel (the open one) on the original SMLE was for, also, as well as the rod on te Kar98aZ.
This is how you get those neat-o pyramids of rifles like in all the old photographs.
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No. 4 with a stacking hook ?
I've still got an Arabic document that was folded up and used as a stock spacer, that I found in the barrel channel of a .303 MartiniGrizz[/QUOTE]
Remember that the Turks previous arms were mousers and that's how they stacked them. I suppose it was easier to add the stacking bar than to retrain the troops. I bought one for just that feature, which is peculiar to those rifles. I did cut off the "RAG" the turks jokingly called a "sling" (it was TIED on!
