2016 September purchases

Horilka

Horilka

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OM, I'll try to restart this tradition..

I've been looking for a while for a pre-war Belgium Browning High Power and finally found one. After I got it and did some research it turned out it is a Chiang Kai-shek Browning - pre-war contract to China. Most of those can be found in very brutal condition, with original parts replaced with Inglis ones. This one happen to be in matching original condition. The only Inglis "part" is magazine with same type of patina as the pistol, so this is they way it traveled from China to Canada.


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Great Hi Power! Awfully nice for anything that old coming out of China.



I won this Hungarian Mannlicher 35M in the recent Landsborough Auction - it's not here yet but hopefully early next week. I've actually been looking for a WW2 Hungarian rifle (either a 35M or 43M) for more than 12 years, they're certainly not easy to find in this country. I actually (very excitedly) bought a 43M in August out of another Landsborough auction, so imagine my surprise when the 35M came up less than a month later! My theory is that they came out of the same collection - there were some other interesting and uncommon milsurps in both auctions. Between these two and a Tradex M39 its been a spendy couple of months, but they were all too good to pass up. I'll post some detailed comparison pictures of the 35M and 43M once I have both and time to take them.

For anyone unfamiliar, the 35M is an improved Mannlicher turnbolt in 8 x 56mm using the same enbloc clip as the more familiar M95s, built at the Budapest arsenal. It has some neat features - it's a ####-on-close, vs the ####-on-open of other Mannlichers, has an Enfield--style 2 piece stock, and uses a Lebel type bayonet attachment system. It was the standard-issue for frontline Hungarian troops on the Eastern Front throughout the beginning of WW2. Starting in 1940 they produced the G98/40, a "Germanised" version on contract for the Germans, in 8mm Mauser with a Mauser-type magazine and German sling and bayonet fittings. They also have a giant serial number stamped into the buttplate, which isn't mechanically important but I find quite interesting. Sometime after the Hungarian 2nd Army was nearly wiped out around Stalingrad in early 1943, the Hungarians adopted the 43M, which basically combined the G98/40s Mauser chambering and magazine with the 35Ms Hungarian style stock and fittings. I think this is also an interesting demonstration of how they became increasingly dependant on / subservient to their allies as the war dragged on.

Not technically a September purchase, but here's the 43M I got in August:

 
Nothing overly exciting for most of you guys.. however I have wanted one of these fore sometime. 1942 Husqvarna M38
It's always a good feeling, to get one search out of the way.

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Picked this up recently off the EE. Paid a fair price and I am very happy with it. It fits in with my WWI collection nicely, and it also has lead me to believe a couple more Gewehr 88s and 88/05s might be in my future. Definitely interesting rifles, and the prices are pretty fair for them as well.



 
Yes, however it hasn't received as much of a mix up it could have. The middle barrel band and magazine have been re-numbered to match the rifle, which I would suspect was done in German service as the Turkish rifles I have seen normally they didn't care. What is particularly cool is that the regimental marking on the matching middle band would have actually been the regiment it was assigned to (in this case the rifle was rack number 170 of the first company of the 63rd Infantry Regiment). Everything else other than the barrel shroud is mismatched, bolt is a typical Turkish re-numbered (in Arabic) otherwise there isn't too much to say that it was a Turkish rifle.





 
Now that is cool and rare to find, is it all still live (I ask because most for whatever reason have at least the grenade launcher deactivated)? Personally I love how the grenade launcher worked, having you insert a live round into it, and having a chunk of metal that prevented the bullet from moving well allowing the gas to escape from the fired round into the firing chamber of the launcher. Only slightly sketchy.
 
Got the nagant in: (edit: nice, they're the correct orientation on the website but upside here, oh well.)

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More swedish rifle! 1942 Husqvarna carbine.

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My September purchases (so far) are a Mosin sniper, a 1915 BSA .22 conversion and a PCMR Winchester 94 (pictures of before and after varnish removal).
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Let's try this again in the right place. I didn't see that a thread had been started already. Here are my September purchases. I have a Radom ViS-35 and Nazi FN Hi Power on the way in the next couple weeks.
Refurbed generic TT-33 and Russian capture P-38.

Russian capture Star B and CZ-38.
 
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